3. This is why pats new stuff while not "folk punk" does point towards the places I've found the closest stuff artistically to early folk punk which is nearly homeless guys(or girls) crashing out, and it's all computer now
That's why HappyHappy sounds like that
1. Don't call pat slop it makes me sad
2. It's weird to focus on "soft" and "corporate" since early folk punk was soft as baby shit and new stuff isn't like...really pop music. It's just shitty alt rock made by kids from the suburbs
got this zine from a kid tabling outside the venue at a Rent Strike show. saw him 20 minutes later dripping wet, asked him what happened, and he went “someone yelled at me over that zine and poured their pepsi bottle out on me”
anyways i finally read it and they were right
Like not mentioning that most folk punk artists at this point aren't facing material constraints but instead imitating the music they liked in highschool is really misidentifying the root of the problem
@shaggysurvives We have a system where we pay farmers to produce more and more corn soy and cheese and desperately try to find a way to use it
(If you want a good explanation of the history of the corn problem watch King Corn it's old but the problems are still there)
@shaggysurvives A more meaningful critique is that a system where all sectors are expected to grow creates incentives for awful resource distribution, overconsumption, and toxic short term thinking which is similar but is less anti progress
@rodentiation@SYNESTHEIZURE an appeal to nativism...do better
Alternatively: the appeal to an innate woke instinct is an abdication of the obligation to continuing self education and will ultimately be unfit for the purpose of properly preforming wokeness