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This song is about accepting your flaws" not cute! Like even if their target is ostensibly minority oppression or whatever, at the end of the day this is yet another punk band of all straight white men centered around male aggression and being mad at "the system". I haven't seen them live or heard the new album yet, but aren't women constantly saying rightly that the job of dismantling toxic masculinity etc.

If that's the case, playing to an all-male audience with sentiments like that would be a feature, not a bug. I mean yeah I guess it's nice that someone is making music that appeals to horrible aggro dudes and the message is like "hey maybe be slightly less horrible and aggro" but this music feels very much, like, not for me.

Which is fine. If the sonics in question aren't for you, that's of course completely fine, but I don't see why there has to be some kind of marriage of form and content as opposed to an interplay. I mean, there's definitely merit to the criticism of lack of diverse openers and sure they've got an element of performativeness about them.

But to me it feels less cynical then I guess it does to you. I think they mean well, and there's joyful naivity to their music that I find appealing. Which isn't to say your criticisms aren't on point, it just feels a little weirdly aggressive a criticism for a fairly harmless band who seem to be trying.

I dunno, ymmv I guess. As a gay man I have watched queerness become both safer, in terms of existing in the world in my case a major US cityand also more fashionable, esp in terms of the way that queerness now gives one clout in a lot of types of social spaces.

I think at the end of the day I just accept that nothing about this is radical or challenging or interesting to me, that yes of course they are well-intentioned and maybe harmless but that this is music made for other ppl, maybe these ppl will benefit from it hopefully, idk.

It doesn't seem like a fixed position. Everything I've heard from them has been absolute shit but I dunno, they're clearly filling a vacuum. Question is why there's nothing better to fill it. But there don't seem to be enough bands who are both good enough and getting enough attention, so you get shit like Idles and Sleaford Mods taking up disproportionate amounts of attention in the absence of anything else.

I heard the record review show on 6music and they were going crazy for the new Idles single, also they seem to be Steve Lamacq's favourite band right now, I relay this information without comment. I would only add were the members of the music groupblue mercedes gay their previous album, which I did hear, was iirc snarky and bitter in the Mclusky mold, so clearly this thematic about-face is relatively new.

Which is not to impugn their motives or anything, just to reconfirm that they seem to still be figuring shit out.

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Stevie those bands sound really cool and interesting including Downtown Boys who I love but every single one of them is from the US and not really relevant to the point I was making. The UK and US just have a fundamentally different relationship to rock music at this point in time.

From what I can tell they don't have anything to do with any kind of queer subculture in the UK and clearly aren't intended to be that band. They seem to be 'political' in the most surface level way, gesturing vaguely in the direction of a range of things including British attitudes to immigration, unemployment etc.

Ticking off the woke checklist OTM. Most of the time those bands are completely ignored by everyone else in the country - the fact that one of them has got even near the mainstream and that they're also sort of a bit political at the same time suggests a pent up demand, maybe a desperation for something that doesn't appear to exist in Britain right now.

But yeah, there is and always has been a hunger for 'proper' British rock music, especially rock music that actually, you know, 'rocks', and I think it's more the muscial format that appeals to people - the right-on agit-prop grandstanding is just the medium, the cherry on top that makes them stand out from other bands making a similar racket in small venues up and down the country The Wytches come to mind.

It's political music for year olds who aren't ready for grime, would feel intimidated by the atmosphere at an inner-city queer or femme-punk gig, and like to headbang their way up the M4 when it comes on Radio 6 in the mornings. I just clicked on Scott's video in the opening post and the singer disrespects Rothko in the song, and I thought fuck these plebs forever then!

I am more at peace w them being popular as a rare albeit mediocre UK rock band than being popular for their lyrical themes.