orange22 Posted January 9 Posted January 9 6 hours ago, igninton said: Idgaf about religion but it's funny how these edgy peeps would never dare to take a beef with Judaism or Islam so they resort to always bashing the same one. It's like when everyone was resorting to cheap EDM sounds during 2010-2015, can you come up with something or new or at least start offending a different demographic? Yeah why hasn’t he done an Islam era yet? Since he’s such a risk taker 1
skankle Posted January 9 Posted January 9 Kinda surprised he's mining this tired vein again, I may have overestimated his marketing nous. Hopefully I am not also overestimating the GP and music media in hoping that this tired false transgression is not so readily gobbled up this time around!
kishi Posted January 10 Posted January 10 (edited) 8 hours ago, Harrier said: You make good points here and it certainly wouldn't make sense for Nas to target Islam or Judaism specifically, it'd be wildly tone deaf and frankly... weird given it's not his background. But I do think there could be room for him to explore like, other sources of homophobia. I do think that non-Christian homophobia goes a little bit unchallenged in comparison to Christian homophobia which we all (rightly) rag on constantly. But there are so many sources and types of homophobia. Like let's talk about how damaging traditonal masculinit /machismo are to queer men all around the world. As much as I personally dislike religion sometimes it's actually not about that. Or maybe as I said earlier, he could do something that is more of a general critique of religious homophobia. It just feels like low hanging fruit for a pop star to be satirising Christianity again. Tired, done etc. Homophobia has been activated mostly through religion, though. Christianity has long been the justification for anti-LGBTQ sentiments. Surely there's other ways that one can be homophobic...but I'm curious to see other examples. Christianity is the largest religion in this country and that is how he was raised. This has negatively impacted him and this is his experience. You all don't have to like it, but this is how he chooses to express himself artistically. Edited January 10 by kishi 1
Solgayleo Posted January 10 Posted January 10 I’ll wait and see if he’s got anything new to add to the blaspheme shtick before I write him off. He continues to surprise me, so I can see him cooking up another iconic moment with this
Bubble Tea Posted January 11 Posted January 11 Until you've garnered a fatwa, no religion baiting is interesting. It'd be more interesting and shocking to actually be religious and have an ounce of depth and commitment to something higher than yourself. 1
Jay07 Posted January 12 Posted January 12 Just heard the song and it's very mid and more of the same and he remains unable to rap OR sing which makes all the religion baiting even more pointless.
Theshigo Washidu Posted January 12 Posted January 12 Stale and boring. His music is mediocre and he knows it so he gets by through "trolling" as a grown ass man.
La Reina Posted January 14 Posted January 14 Very tired. Also kinda funny how most artists always go after Christianity and not other religions, which are just as bad (if not worse)
BGKC Posted January 14 Posted January 14 (edited) The demonic/blasphemous card is so worn out and tired in pop music atp to the point of redundancy to your avid, secular listener, but it keeps conservative audience perched and obsessed (intentionally so). The means to cause discourse is seemingly prevalent when it comes to (mainstream) LGBT+ acts (among other, more feminist forward acts) imo, and that in itself can be deemed as a conspiracy, but as I said; it’s redundant and counterproductive as a blatant form of blasphemy in 2024. LNX in particular has become excruciatingly desperate and trite in his troll ass approach. Edited January 14 by BGKC
loveisdead9582 Posted January 14 Posted January 14 I don’t care that he dressed up as Jesus or whatever. After you pole dance down to hell and give satan a lap dance, there’s not really much of anything shocking you can do with religion.
Heldenzeit Posted January 14 Posted January 14 I don't care either way, I just hoped for better music.
Ramooon Posted January 14 Posted January 14 On 1/12/2024 at 12:32 PM, Jay07 said: Just heard the song and it's very mid and more of the same and he remains unable to rap OR sing which makes all the religion baiting even more pointless. fully agree
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