Language is public property
This is not terrible relavent but this is a rant section anyways.
I was resently on this site talking about the history and definition of noisecore http://www.cfprod.com/noisecore/noisecore.htm. It brought couple things to mind a) according to this guys definition I shoulding be calling Subversive Intentions noisecore and b) the lengths that people go to to control and validate what they consider to be "their" music. I remeber when I was in highschool there were these hardcore kids who where obsessed with this. To them hardcore ment one thing and one thing only. It was a distinct type of music, an attitude, a world view, and even a style of dress. They got particularly militant at the time because the word they had so lovingly and loyally employed to describe their life-style was out of their control. This was back in the days when Korn was starting to get around and no one knew what to call them. So people called them hardcore. The hardcore kids I knew couldn't stand this, they would go on tyraids on the school listservs, in class, and the school dances. And it was all because some people were calling Korn hardcore. I don't intend on defending that position. I don't really care, to this day I don't know what hardcore is, but the point for me lies in language. These hardcore kids were trying to be prescriptive grammarians of the supposed "hardcore" life. The problem they were having wasn't that "hardcore" was some how changing or degenerating, its that langauge being a social thing, they couldn't nail down this term for their own devices. So in the end, I'm not sure I care whether I am accurate when I call myself noisecore, noise, industrial, electronica. People can't really agree on what they mean anyways.
originally posted on Thursday, January 05, 2006 on MySpace
I was resently on this site talking about the history and definition of noisecore http://www.cfprod.com/noisecore/noisecore.htm. It brought couple things to mind a) according to this guys definition I shoulding be calling Subversive Intentions noisecore and b) the lengths that people go to to control and validate what they consider to be "their" music. I remeber when I was in highschool there were these hardcore kids who where obsessed with this. To them hardcore ment one thing and one thing only. It was a distinct type of music, an attitude, a world view, and even a style of dress. They got particularly militant at the time because the word they had so lovingly and loyally employed to describe their life-style was out of their control. This was back in the days when Korn was starting to get around and no one knew what to call them. So people called them hardcore. The hardcore kids I knew couldn't stand this, they would go on tyraids on the school listservs, in class, and the school dances. And it was all because some people were calling Korn hardcore. I don't intend on defending that position. I don't really care, to this day I don't know what hardcore is, but the point for me lies in language. These hardcore kids were trying to be prescriptive grammarians of the supposed "hardcore" life. The problem they were having wasn't that "hardcore" was some how changing or degenerating, its that langauge being a social thing, they couldn't nail down this term for their own devices. So in the end, I'm not sure I care whether I am accurate when I call myself noisecore, noise, industrial, electronica. People can't really agree on what they mean anyways.
originally posted on Thursday, January 05, 2006 on MySpace
posted by Subversive Intentions at 11:17 AM
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