Please help me, it's all terrible rap rhyming Aaron Burr, sir with the word bursar.
Use incognito mode to browse the awful shit on youtube so it doesn't show up in your sidebar, my friend.
As a side note Yiddish music slaps and is often pretty lefty check it out. (Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird is straight communist fire 🔥)
Did you like where he made Washington Black so we could absolve him of his slave owning history
No, I just thought the songs were kinda catchy
The premise is libshit
I will send him to the gulag just for rhyming "Burr, sir" with "bursar"
I've had some success with clicking "not interested" when the algorithm has suggested terrible things to me. Best of luck.
There are three little dots to the right side of the title. Click on them and there are several options, one of them is "not interested." I discovered this in my despair at seeing the absolute shit YouTube was showing me, and it worked for me at least.
I watched the Quinton Reviews video criticizing Hamilton and I got Hamilton fan recommendations for days
I'm unironically pretty fond of Hamilton, mostly because I was first introduced to it by my students, a pair of "troublemaker" preteen edgy gamer brothers (i.e. the type who cursed every other word just to be shocking and who loudly pretended to be Trump supporters just to piss off their teachers and classmates lol... for the record, there were pretty obvious underlying reasons for their behavior but I won't go into it). That it had enough power to genuinely engage two doofuses like them really impressed me. The older kid in particular seemed to embrace (fictional) Hamilton as a sort of personal hero -- and he really did need that kind of outlet/role model at the time -- so I just can't bring myself to be dismissive of the whole phenomenon. Plus the tunes are catchy and the story's good entertainment. I basically approach it the way I approach stuff like catgirl Cao Cao, so the historical revisionism and shallow politics don't really bother me.
Otoh I have this extremely lib friend who's a superfan of both Les Mis and Hamilton, and I have to confess... that I honestly don't get, haha.
I think that's what bothers me most about it actually. Like any other popular form of historical fiction, it's being viewed through the earnest lens to learn, and it's going to fail on multiple fronts. As a work, it's entrenched in American civil religion nonsense. And it bothers me that it's gotten so much traction in education because holy shit it is a really piss poor primary text.
Yeah, that's fair -- when taken seriously as an educational tool it's pretty gross. I don't know the context where these kids first encountered it (I don't work in a school setting and this was a few years ago) and if it was for a history class or something then yikes for sure.
At least Les Mis is based. Marx writes a few cool things about the Socialist rising of 1832. In the book Enjolras is literally "Robespierre did nothing wrong" and he's the centrist in the Revolutionary group.
Hamilton is really, really awful. But that's what you get when it's a cast of villains.
I assume your lib friend is like conservatives who love RAtM, they just like the chords and the lyrics have no meaning.
Good to see Connor O'Malley appreciation here given that he's basically the living embodiment of the old subreddit (in a good way)
What if a person of color compressed all of your white guilt and turned it into a musical with people of color rapping?
while it does launder the history a bit nobody with more than two brain cells is going to actually try and get their history from a musical.
They're literally partnering with schools to use this as a tool to teach kids.
Maybe delete the one video from your history? Not sure if that affects the recommendations, but it might.
Yo !my name is thomas jefferson and raping my slaves is totally rad!
