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Friday Fun Thread for August 16, 2024

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https://youtube.com/watch?v=LQhX8PbNUWI

We Care A Lot by Faith No More, before Chuck Mosley was replaced by Mike Patton as lead singer. I didn't realize until now there was a pre-Patton era.

I was vaguely familiar with the song, mostly encountering it in the 1990s, and I only watched the video just now. At first, I thought it was a parody of crusty PCU-type bands, but then I realized Jon Favreau likely based some of his parodic character on this type of genuine, authentic expression.

But is it genuine? The song is satire, again venturing into PCU (the movie with Jeremy Piven and Jon Favreau, Politically Correct University) territory. We care a lot about killer bees and saving the whales. You can hear the sneering disrespect in Mosley's voice.

We're closing the 2014 decade this year, 2014 being the crux of woke takeover. This video seems relevant, and I'm still trying to figure out if the visual elements are genuine or parodic. White dudes in dreads playing Flying V guitars...

That was just the style of the '90s nu-metal scene. Yes this was at the end of the '80s but Faith No More was basically proto-90s stylistically. White guys with dreads? That's just what skaters, bums, and layabouts looked like. You never heard of Korn?

See the music video for "Epic" from the first album with Patton. Same style.