Violent Music. Time to get dirty...
I love Body Count. I love the audacity of the songs and the controversy it stirs up all over the nation. Most of the time, there has been a safety net in music and art, allowing one to explore ideas most would never dare declare without its obscurity. But that driving, heavy soul seems to back up Ice-T's lyrics with a vengeance. The marriage becomes hard enough to push any safety right over the edge. Some frightful things happened in my early life, so I grew up listening to music considered shocking by the mainstream. It quieted me. Body Count came into my world in 1991, a year after I'd finished high school. I was still running wild.
As time moved on, I eventually grew up. But I never grew out of my heavy music security blanket. I am more acutely aware of the initial shock of the violence living inside the music, however. And I just got a taste of a song that came out on their 2017 release of Bloodlust, called All Love Is Lost. A friend sent the new video to me today. I hadn't listened to these guys in a while, and they'd disappeared off my radar. As I listened and watched the video, it all came back with a psychic nuclear blast. It caught me with a sharp hook. I was taken back to my angst during my teenage years, and suddenly realized the new generation had an even more bitter soul than we did back then. This world is in a bad state.
It's not old news, but it never hits home until a musical soldier reminds us through the power of their artistic skill. I don't even think they know how powerful what they're doing is. Music moves through us just as easily as light beams and radioactive signals. It literally has a physical effect. We feel more through music than we do when we're simply talking to each other. It's strong. And the responses are vast. Things this moving will force people to think and consider; something they seem to be getting too lazy to do lately. I like this. I like the emotional chaos that forces the intellect to start working. It's rough at first, but then you start to sink into it and find your ground. That's when you learn to stand up. The message of the video is pretty dark and something I can't quite back up, as I'd not want to see anyone actually doing that, but I'm not opposed to how they did this. I love the darkness of this video. As a writer myself, I've written some pretty dark stuff. In 2011, I wrote a song about a girl who kills some other girl so she can hook up with her lover. It's bad. The lyrics are insane. So are the lyrics to a hundred other blues songs written in the 1930s. We just pay more attention now because the heart piercing sounds tend to get our attention quicker... enter this very dark video.
I'm not going to describe it. You'll have to watch it yourself. Be prepared. My friend sent it to me because it sports a guest appearance and vocals by Max Cavalera, a man I think is a beautiful bad ass. (The silent type of bad ass until he starts singing...) It's a lovely gut wrencher. Just check it out.
There will always be those in the world who take things like this the wrong way and use it as an excuse to hurt someone, but that would still be happening just as much if the music wasn't around. (Actually more often, I believe) We just don't hear about it until it's plastered all over the media. Music should be giving us a way to express ourselves and release all those pent up feelings. We can use it to learn to direct our energy in more constructive ways, instead of sitting on those ideas and emotions. That's what it's for. It's okay to feel angry. Just learn to redirect it and question why you feel that way. Music is a gift and a tool that can be keeping us civil instead of letting us become more repressive and sunk into our own heads, thus eventually losing our minds. This is the heaviest song I've heard in awhile. The sound is amazing. And it made me never want to go kill anybody. 😇
BODY COUNT- All Love Is Lost: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=27&v=JJDS5kVLM9E
As time moved on, I eventually grew up. But I never grew out of my heavy music security blanket. I am more acutely aware of the initial shock of the violence living inside the music, however. And I just got a taste of a song that came out on their 2017 release of Bloodlust, called All Love Is Lost. A friend sent the new video to me today. I hadn't listened to these guys in a while, and they'd disappeared off my radar. As I listened and watched the video, it all came back with a psychic nuclear blast. It caught me with a sharp hook. I was taken back to my angst during my teenage years, and suddenly realized the new generation had an even more bitter soul than we did back then. This world is in a bad state.
It's not old news, but it never hits home until a musical soldier reminds us through the power of their artistic skill. I don't even think they know how powerful what they're doing is. Music moves through us just as easily as light beams and radioactive signals. It literally has a physical effect. We feel more through music than we do when we're simply talking to each other. It's strong. And the responses are vast. Things this moving will force people to think and consider; something they seem to be getting too lazy to do lately. I like this. I like the emotional chaos that forces the intellect to start working. It's rough at first, but then you start to sink into it and find your ground. That's when you learn to stand up. The message of the video is pretty dark and something I can't quite back up, as I'd not want to see anyone actually doing that, but I'm not opposed to how they did this. I love the darkness of this video. As a writer myself, I've written some pretty dark stuff. In 2011, I wrote a song about a girl who kills some other girl so she can hook up with her lover. It's bad. The lyrics are insane. So are the lyrics to a hundred other blues songs written in the 1930s. We just pay more attention now because the heart piercing sounds tend to get our attention quicker... enter this very dark video.
I'm not going to describe it. You'll have to watch it yourself. Be prepared. My friend sent it to me because it sports a guest appearance and vocals by Max Cavalera, a man I think is a beautiful bad ass. (The silent type of bad ass until he starts singing...) It's a lovely gut wrencher. Just check it out.
There will always be those in the world who take things like this the wrong way and use it as an excuse to hurt someone, but that would still be happening just as much if the music wasn't around. (Actually more often, I believe) We just don't hear about it until it's plastered all over the media. Music should be giving us a way to express ourselves and release all those pent up feelings. We can use it to learn to direct our energy in more constructive ways, instead of sitting on those ideas and emotions. That's what it's for. It's okay to feel angry. Just learn to redirect it and question why you feel that way. Music is a gift and a tool that can be keeping us civil instead of letting us become more repressive and sunk into our own heads, thus eventually losing our minds. This is the heaviest song I've heard in awhile. The sound is amazing. And it made me never want to go kill anybody. 😇
BODY COUNT- All Love Is Lost: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=27&v=JJDS5kVLM9E
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