Justify Your Shitty Taste…
Monday, January 10th, 2011Decibel Magazine’s Deciblog has a new(ish) section up called “Justify Your Shitty Taste,” where their writers have to justify their love for an unlovable album such as Judas Priest’s Turbo or Metallica’s St. Anger or anything that Varg has ever done.. As far as ideas go it’s a fairly awesome one and one worthy of thievery, by someone else obviously, I’m way too lazy to follow up on this. However, I offer out into the universe the following idea:
Justify the shitty music in your video part.
It’s no secret that BMX videos are often set to some of the shittiest music known to man. It can be argued, in fact, that the only videos ever released in BMX that didn’t have shit music are, the handful of videos that use Refused “New Noise,” the original Macneil video which used Suicidal Tendencie’s “Thee Feeling’s Back” and Standard’s “Stronger Than All” which used Prong’s “Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck” (although in that last case the song was edited so terribly that it almost loses points. How did the Macneil folks manage to extend that ST track seamlessly and Standard couldn’t do the same to such an obviously re-mix ready track? Is it because they’re in Iowa?).
Of course there are obvious problems with this idea. Granted all I know about modern BMX “culture” I’ve learned from the comments on The Come Up, but there’s a good chance that asking a BMXer why their musical taste sucks will result in a poorly spelled, grammatically atrocious homophobic rant. And, of course, the obvious answer is either “money” (good music isn’t cheap to license) or “youth” (hey, fuck you, I got Look What The Cat Dragged In for CHRISTMAS when I was 14, I know youth based bad musical taste).
Still, I think someone should get on this. Stat. Defgrip guys, are you listening?
Non-shitty music follows
