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To: Only1choice____Freedom

I'd like to know how tolerant the rock industry is, to conservative points of view in songs.

11 posted on 06/02/2003 3:47:41 PM PDT by Paul Atreides

To: Paul Atreides

"I'd like to know how tolerant the rock industry is, to conservative points of view in songs."

Silly FReeper! Tolerance only involves US putting up with THEIR opinions. How dare you suggest that they should have to put up with ours! Back to the re-education camp with you.

16 posted on 06/02/2003 4:04:29 PM PDT by sweetliberty ("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")

To: Paul Atreides

I'd like to know how tolerant the rock industry is, to conservative points of view in songs.

Ask Metallica and Pantera. They seem to have done rather conspicuously well.

24 posted on 06/02/2003 4:16:20 PM PDT by Pahuanui (when A Foolish Man Hears The tao, He Laughs Out Loud.)

To: Paul Atreides

"I'd like to know how tolerant the rock industry is, to conservative points of view in songs."
This is what bugs me about the whole thing. Musicians are _artists_. It's not their job to make freaking position papers! There is NO possible obligation for musicians to be liberal, conservative or anything else- they're about being honest and expressing how they feel and what they think. If's that's conservative, boo hoo- it's not like liberals can't be folkies or R+B, God knows what rappers are except that they probably aren't in favor of gun control ;)
Same goes for the boo hoo, liberals have all the media and Hollywood, line. If you don't like it, get off your butt and make some damn music! You'll probably have more success with it if it's not a straight-up rant, but nobody's stopping you from doing that either. Do not whine about how artists are doing something unless you're willing to do it yourself. Or would you like to enact government legislation ensuring a certain amount of conservative point of view in the media?
Sorry for jumping all over ya but to me it seems like a pretty simple matter. If Country's heavily conservative, that's a reflection of the artists. If you want more Conservative Rock, go out and make it! And if you mean to rock and you are worrying about being TOLERATED you're totally unhinged. Rock is a slap in the face or a kick in the pants and if you insist on getting tolerance in advance you've already lost *G*

66 posted on 06/03/2003 2:54:24 AM PDT by jinxtigr

To: Paul Atreides

>>"I'd like to know how tolerant the rock industry is, to conservative points of view in songs."

You mean MTV?

72 posted on 06/03/2003 5:16:03 PM PDT by Only1choice____Freedom (If somebody has to tell you, it's already too late.)

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