Purely on the grounds that Reagan used Born in the USA as his campaign anthem lmaoooo kill me
It's one thing to not be able to stomach The Smiths because Morrisey is a Nazi, but I'm pretty sure Bruce Springsteen didn't give Reagan's campaign permission to use that song. Springsteen is a lib, but he's a lib that's been pretty vocal about LGBTQ rights and was even critical of Obama's foreign policy. The Boss is probably not a comrade, but I doubt he's got fash blood under his skin.
On the other hand, Pantera. And pretty much any Norwegian black metal band. And goddamned Ace of Base (I will never not link this).
Edit: really most 80s thrash metal. Slayer even did sort of a heel turn with Tom Araya insisting for years that "Angel of Death" wasn't pro-Nazi, all while Jeff Hanneman was amassing a collection of Nazi memorabilia. :sus-torment:
Isn't the only historical relevancy of Ace of Base that they were the first group to be a vehicle for the Swedish song writers that would later write all the Britney Spears and Katy Perry hits? Those guys stopped associated with Ace of Base when it came out that one of the dudes used to be part of a nazi party. Was it the Nazi written songs that were the hits?
That's not what Death of the Author is, please god I am begging everyone to just read Barthes
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Haha but you’re the author of your comment and you’re dead now so your comment means whatever I want :)
My take is, I think that "Death of the Author" as a method of literary critique is a potentially valuable, but very often misused tool. Instead of using it as a justification to analyze a given work as part of a specific historic & social dialogue, of a specific point in time, people use it as a bludgeon to justify imposing on the work whatever they personally happen to feel about themselves, or the world, or even just the present discourses of their own time.
In essence it's sort of a reverse of the more well-known hammer-problem. When the only part of a project you care about is the nails, then every tool appears to be a hammer in disguise.
Give me twenty years to come up with responses, I would never think up hidden hammers to nail analogy
In essence it’s sort of a reverse of the more well-known hammer-problem. When the only part of a project you care about is the nails, then every tool appears to be a hammer in disguise.
Regardless of what we’re actually talking about I fucking love this analogy.
if you don't take the dead kennedys approach to being misinterpreted i have less respect for you
If you're only pro death of the author for books, then I suspect you're a Harry Potter fan :soviet-hmm:
other highlights are HW using This Land is Your Land and Rudy Giuliani using Rudie Can't Fail
But that song and Neil Young's Rocking in the Free World (which is another than gets used by the right) are textually anti-American. Like, it doesn't matter what Springsteen would say about it, the lyrics are themselves critical of the US. Right wingers are just bad at understanding things
