Like I'm going to look it up. Feel like he went MAGAing recently and I haven't heard he died, so I'm guessing he is still kicking.
What would shock me is if someone pointed out a MAGA celebrity that has actually been relevent in the last 20 years, other than as a MAGA personality. Only one I can think of is Kanye West, but he clearly went deep off the end of crazy very publicly.
I think the only reason I bought the CD was the line: 'Paint the town red and paint the sheriff's wife white' which vibed with my teenaged wannabe anarchist pubes.
I regret what I was, but I have grown. Kid Rock hasn't.
No, he took the great song Sweet Home Alabama, stole a hook from it, and used it to create a new, awful song. It's the MAGA way, steal something good, and replace it with an inferior version of it.
He had a bit role in Joe Dirt as well, that my friend group was super in to the year it released for some reason. We weren't even southern or country, I think we just liked mocking the aforementioned designations.
I know the name kid rock. I don't know a single song of his, like I don't know that it is his at least. And while I have seen his face recently, I couldn't tell you who that people in the meme was without the label.
I seriously don't know that guy at all. I am not denying his legend title to be mean or rude to him. I just think I would know a music legend.
I like how he's not even trying besides the braids. He at least used to have dirtbag energy. Now he's just some dad but with shitty pigtails for some reason
You wish Mr. Cumfart. The universe isn't fair and this racist hack of a poser has fucked a far greater quantity and better looking men, woman and trans hookers then you will even dream of.
Lol listen I hate kid rock but if you think there wasn't a line of skanks outside his dressing room door you probably thought Kamala had a chance at winning the election he was married to Pamela Anderson for Christ sake.
Fred Durst is self aware of how cringe he was and instead of trying to be cool, he's just kinda leaning into it now, old man Durst is awesome af, young Fred Durst is a cringe lord.
I used to like Limp Bizkit because I thought they were funny, like in a crude, fart joke kind of way. Then I saw them at a festival where they refused to start their set until the video crew shut off the stage feed, you know, basically the only way people at the back of the crowd or in accessible seating could see wtf was going on onstage. Later on in the show, they also got pissed at the people in the accessible seating area for not standing up. I no longer like Limp Bizkit, even in the crude, fart joke kind of way.
I hope you really didn’t think those were the lyrics
Bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy
Said the boogie, said up drop the boogie
Bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy
Said the boogie, said up jump the boogie
Look, the dude's an asshole. He shouldn't be on any talk show because his personal views are not worth listening to. But he has also sold 26 million albums, which is enough to count pretty much anyone as a "music legend".
hes credited with pretty much birthing the country-rap genre that has exploded in recent years. id say creating a genre is pretty legendary. and he had i think 3 hits just off of devil without a cause and a couple more after that and even before he blew up in popularity he was a detroit legend. there was a time he was giving advice to eminem himself on enunciating his words more clearly so everyone can understand what hes saying
creating a genre is a flex whether you think so or not, especially one so popular. i dont even listen to it (because its ass as you say) but it 100% a flex
Just because you create something doesn't automatically make it a good thing. I birthed a giant turd this morning and I thought it was incredible, when I showed my wife and son they didn't like it so much. So just cause some people have horrible taste in music doesn't make the creator a legend
I'm from Detroit, people have mixed feelings for him and always have. Gonna need a citation on the Eminem bit, who is nearly universally liked in Detroit.
He isn't even from Detroit. He grew up on a fucking apple orchard in a 1.3 million dollar home, with a guest house and a horse stable. Of course he's a shithead.
Money doesn't buy talent, and sure doesn't buy culture, but it does buy expensive instruments and production equipment. More often than not it also buys industry recognition and other privileges above others that don't have the same means, but that's besides the point.
His entire career is built upon the appropriation of black culture; he started on the hip-hop scene. Only to take what he gained from that, strip black people and as much of their culture out of it as he could without making himself irrelevant, and use the resulting "rap rock" sound to pander to a broader more racist audience that would then cheer as he performed underneath white supremacist hate symbols. Once his fame was secured he would cleanse rap out of his sound entirely, and revert to country rock
He's a cynical and talentless hack that formulated his music not as a tool of cultural or self expression, not for the sake of doing anything new, but for the purpose of self enrichment. To have the broadest appeal to an audience that wanted black cultural touchstones without black people involved in it, and would have rejected it if it were a black man in his place. He uses the spoils of his theft to support policies and politicians that are directly harmful to the people of the culture that he got his start from, and the city he takes credit for as a claim to fame. None of this points to him having any appreciation for music at all, other than as a scheme to become rich and famous.
So yeah, it's no wonder his music has broad appeal within a certain audience, it wasn't made for any purpose other than that. That doesn't make it good. It's a lifeless, blanched corpse of the culture he owes his career to.
That is what it has to do with music. Like it or not, all of these things are interconnected. Nothing exists in a vacuum. Music is culture is status is politics is history and so on.
i have to wonder how far you could push an antifascist campaign on being unabashedly into milfs
"rest assured i am not a pedophile, i can't get it up unless they're at least 40"
Looking back through my spotty memories, it's like Kid Rock had his rise in the late 90s and then vanished from the face of the earth after I saw him at Woodstock '99.
...well then they resurrected the brand a decade or two later to help elect the worst person on the planet to the most powerful job on the planet.
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mcbenavides85@piefed.social · 135 pts · 323d
bigboitricky@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 323d
Kid rock: gone and forgotten
jj4211@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 322d
Pretty much all of the NAGA celebs are "people who you hadn't thought about for least 20 years who are bitter no one cares about them anymore"
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 321d
I forget, did Hulk Hogan die? I can't be assed to look it up.
jj4211@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 321d
Like I'm going to look it up. Feel like he went MAGAing recently and I haven't heard he died, so I'm guessing he is still kicking.
What would shock me is if someone pointed out a MAGA celebrity that has actually been relevent in the last 20 years, other than as a MAGA personality. Only one I can think of is Kanye West, but he clearly went deep off the end of crazy very publicly.
AlphaOmega@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 322d
I honestly can't remember the one song he's semi famous for....
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org · 9 pts · 322d
Even on his highest high, it took me some time to figure out that kid rock is a musician and not just some other sub genre.
Sc00ter@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 322d
Baw wit da ba?
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 321d
Around here, we speak American, son. /S
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 5 pts · 322d
I remember Cowboy from Shangai Noon.
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 321d
I think the only reason I bought the CD was the line: 'Paint the town red and paint the sheriff's wife white' which vibed with my teenaged wannabe anarchist pubes.
I regret what I was, but I have grown. Kid Rock hasn't.
three@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 322d
Take me down to the paradise city...
Pandantic@midwest.social · 3 pts · 322d
Didn’t he do it all for the nookie or something?
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 321d
No, that was Freddie Deftones.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 322d
He did a half decent cover of sweet home alabama? I think?
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 322d
No, he took the great song Sweet Home Alabama, stole a hook from it, and used it to create a new, awful song. It's the MAGA way, steal something good, and replace it with an inferior version of it.
RhondaSandTits@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 322d
The music sampled Warewolves of London by Warren Zevon but the lyrics referenced Sweet Home Alabama.
It was fucking cringe, basically the country music equivalent of a Will Smith song.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 319d
Sweet home Alabama predates werewolves of London. I'd say it's all based on sweet home Alabama.
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 321d
His buddy Uncle Cracker did a popular cover as well. Makes me physically I'll when it pops up at work.
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 322d
Bawitaba was big on the radio back in the 90s when I was a dumb kid.
We liked it because it had an anti authoritarian sound on some tracks:
'Paint the town red, and paint the sheriff's wife white'.
That got a giggle from us.
The tracks in between were lack luster, even alt-country.
The next album was a no-buy.
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 322d
He had a bit role in Joe Dirt as well, that my friend group was super in to the year it released for some reason. We weren't even southern or country, I think we just liked mocking the aforementioned designations.
Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 322d
I am serious!
I know the name kid rock. I don't know a single song of his, like I don't know that it is his at least. And while I have seen his face recently, I couldn't tell you who that people in the meme was without the label.
I seriously don't know that guy at all. I am not denying his legend title to be mean or rude to him. I just think I would know a music legend.
blave@lemmy.world · 57 pts · 323d
Holy shit, is that what he looks like now? Yikes!
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 323d
Meth abuse is a bitch.
CatsPajamas@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 322d
I like how he's not even trying besides the braids. He at least used to have dirtbag energy. Now he's just some dad but with shitty pigtails for some reason
al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com · 0 pts · 323d
He's had aids for awhile now.
monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 323d
Wait FR?
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 4 pts · 323d
Nobody wants to have sex or share needles with him so no.
al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com · 3 pts · 322d
You wish Mr. Cumfart. The universe isn't fair and this racist hack of a poser has fucked a far greater quantity and better looking men, woman and trans hookers then you will even dream of.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 322d
Yeah life really isn't fair, some of us can get laid for free.
al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 322d
Lol listen I hate kid rock but if you think there wasn't a line of skanks outside his dressing room door you probably thought Kamala had a chance at winning the election he was married to Pamela Anderson for Christ sake.
ghostlychonk@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 323d
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org · 48 pts · 322d
That's not Kid Rock, that's Elderly Pebble.
klep@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 322d
You made me audibly chuckle on the bus at 5:15am. Well done, internet friend.
Railing5132@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 322d
Old-ass kidney stone
daggermoon@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 322d
Music legend? He's white trash Fred Durst.
the_tab_key@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 322d
Isn't Fred Durst also white trash Fred Durst?
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 322d
They're both playing up an aesthetic, but bonerpill up there is oblivious to the fact that his time has passed.
Limp Bizkit's last album was 2021 after working on it for 9 years,, was called "Still Sucks" and had new music. They're working on their next one now.
Kid Rock released "Greatest Hits: You Never Saw Coming" in 2018 with zero new music and has done nothing since.
I'm not a fan of either but at least one of them is doing work instead of grifting.
dumbass@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 322d
Fred Durst is self aware of how cringe he was and instead of trying to be cool, he's just kinda leaning into it now, old man Durst is awesome af, young Fred Durst is a cringe lord.
daggermoon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 320d
Just in case no one heard Eminem's Limp Bizkit diss track. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn4_ld8VW4Y
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 322d
I used to like Limp Bizkit because I thought they were funny, like in a crude, fart joke kind of way. Then I saw them at a festival where they refused to start their set until the video crew shut off the stage feed, you know, basically the only way people at the back of the crowd or in accessible seating could see wtf was going on onstage. Later on in the show, they also got pissed at the people in the accessible seating area for not standing up. I no longer like Limp Bizkit, even in the crude, fart joke kind of way.
Pandantic@midwest.social · 1 pts · 322d
I only liked them for a brief moment when they riffed on Lars Ulrich of Metallica for hating on Napster and did a whole tour about it.
daggermoon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 320d
Nah, he ain't white trash. He's just cringe.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 322d
Definition of redundancy, right there.
omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 31 pts · 323d
"music legend" is going a little bit far lol. He had a handful of okay songs 2 and half decades ago.
FardyCakes@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 322d
You misspelled “he sucks.”
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 322d
I literally only know him for one song. I have no arguement against him being called a one hit wonder.
Drewmeister@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 322d
I think he had two (cowboy and bawitdaba), so I'm sure he'd be offended at being called a one hit wonder.
Delphia@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 322d
I was a broke white trash teenager during that era... I hate how much I think those two songs slap.
dumbass@aussie.zone · 23 pts · 323d
I would make a joke about him, but you're not supposed to punch down.
Saying that.
Baw wittta baww da bang da bang Diggy Diggy Diggy said the boogy said Kid rocks a pussy.
cdf12345@lemmy.zip · -8 pts · 322d
I hope you really didn’t think those were the lyrics
Bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy Said the boogie, said up drop the boogie Bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy Said the boogie, said up jump the boogie
dumbass@aussie.zone · 14 pts · 322d
Here, have my account, you've earnt it.
Dorkyd68@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 322d
Music legend?? Dude had like 2 hit songs 20 years ago
aesthelete@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 322d
One of those hits was basically just a fan fiction song for sweet home Alabama.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 322d
there were two!?
gmtom@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 322d
Don't forget the theme song to Osmosis Jones where he sings about wanting to rape minors.
Prox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 322d
Look, the dude's an asshole. He shouldn't be on any talk show because his personal views are not worth listening to. But he has also sold 26 million albums, which is enough to count pretty much anyone as a "music legend".
Now, he definitely is NOT a "music icon".
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world · -8 pts · 322d
hes credited with pretty much birthing the country-rap genre that has exploded in recent years. id say creating a genre is pretty legendary. and he had i think 3 hits just off of devil without a cause and a couple more after that and even before he blew up in popularity he was a detroit legend. there was a time he was giving advice to eminem himself on enunciating his words more clearly so everyone can understand what hes saying
dumbass@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 322d
The Insane Clown Posse are more Detroit legends than kid rock is and people love hating on ICP!
They've done more for Detroit than that trust fund having fake outlaw ever could do.
half of his best songs are just riffs he ripped from better bands (American badass is just a Metallica song with shitty lyrics).
Dorkyd68@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 322d
Good for him. Country-rap is ass and not the flex you think it is
elevenbones@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 322d
Hick-hop.
maximumbird@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 322d
Y’all ternative
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 322d
creating a genre is a flex whether you think so or not, especially one so popular. i dont even listen to it (because its ass as you say) but it 100% a flex
Dorkyd68@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 321d
Just because you create something doesn't automatically make it a good thing. I birthed a giant turd this morning and I thought it was incredible, when I showed my wife and son they didn't like it so much. So just cause some people have horrible taste in music doesn't make the creator a legend
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 321d
he changed the music scene and made some bangers idk why people are so up in arms about it
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 322d
I'm from Detroit, people have mixed feelings for him and always have. Gonna need a citation on the Eminem bit, who is nearly universally liked in Detroit.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 322d
there was a story eminem went to a kid rock signing and asked kid rock what he thought about ems mixtape
im inclined to believe it because eminem was on devil without a cause about a year before slim shady lp dropped
causepix@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 319d
He isn't even from Detroit. He grew up on a fucking apple orchard in a 1.3 million dollar home, with a guest house and a horse stable. Of course he's a shithead.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 319d
what's that got to do with music exactly?
causepix@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 319d
Money doesn't buy talent, and sure doesn't buy culture, but it does buy expensive instruments and production equipment. More often than not it also buys industry recognition and other privileges above others that don't have the same means, but that's besides the point.
His entire career is built upon the appropriation of black culture; he started on the hip-hop scene. Only to take what he gained from that, strip black people and as much of their culture out of it as he could without making himself irrelevant, and use the resulting "rap rock" sound to pander to a broader more racist audience that would then cheer as he performed underneath white supremacist hate symbols. Once his fame was secured he would cleanse rap out of his sound entirely, and revert to country rock
He's a cynical and talentless hack that formulated his music not as a tool of cultural or self expression, not for the sake of doing anything new, but for the purpose of self enrichment. To have the broadest appeal to an audience that wanted black cultural touchstones without black people involved in it, and would have rejected it if it were a black man in his place. He uses the spoils of his theft to support policies and politicians that are directly harmful to the people of the culture that he got his start from, and the city he takes credit for as a claim to fame. None of this points to him having any appreciation for music at all, other than as a scheme to become rich and famous.
So yeah, it's no wonder his music has broad appeal within a certain audience, it wasn't made for any purpose other than that. That doesn't make it good. It's a lifeless, blanched corpse of the culture he owes his career to.
That is what it has to do with music. Like it or not, all of these things are interconnected. Nothing exists in a vacuum. Music is culture is status is politics is history and so on.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 319d
yeah but he made cowboy so really how can you fault him for any of that
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 19 pts · 322d
THAT'S Kid Rock? Looks like a guy who will yell at kids just for riding their bikes past his house, while holding a shotgun.
Tuxman@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 322d
Well…… that can ALSO be Kid Rock
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 322d
Valid
Tehhund@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 322d
In fairness, he's always looked like a national spokesperson for gas station boner pills. He just looks like it even more now.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 322d
He's grown into his image, like that weird kid in school that finally grew into his giant head.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 16 pts · 322d
“Music legend” as in no-one outside of America is sure whether he’s a real person or a character in something.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 323d
He's got a white snoop look going. What happened to the cowboy look?
andros_rex@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 322d
Why do MAGAts love fucking kids so much?
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 321d
It's a fine conservative tradition.
BreadOven@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 318d
🤮
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 318d
i have to wonder how far you could push an antifascist campaign on being unabashedly into milfs
"rest assured i am not a pedophile, i can't get it up unless they're at least 40"
andros_rex@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 318d
Emmanuel Macron enters the chat
garbagebagel@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 322d
I want this hat. I am neither white nor a boy but I would like it for satire purposes, please.
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 322d
Easy. Just win the WBotY award. We have open sign-ups every spring.
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 322d
“Music Legend”? More like “Bizarre Social Oddity”
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 322d
"music legend" ? are we sure about that?
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 322d
Legends traditionally need to die. Perhaps Kid Rock is volunteering?
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 321d
so not worth the effort.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 322d
cmbabul@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 323d
This is disrespectful to gas station boner pills
ChonkyLincoln@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 322d
He looks like a crackhead grandfather
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 321d
He looks like Walter White if he sampled his own product.
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space · 5 pts · 322d
At first glance I thought he's wearing glasses with straps.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 322d
Back in the day kid rock made music that pissed off your parents. Now kid rock makes music your parents love.
SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev · 4 pts · 321d
I don't remember his music ever being cool or edgy. It was like drinking lacroix when soda is available.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 322d
The last time I liked Kid Rock was 1998.
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 322d
I think you mean '99
Due the storm of 'Bawitdaba', 'Only God Knows Why', and 'Cowboy' being released that year and Napster.
Zink@programming.dev · 2 pts · 322d
Oh yeah, Woodstock '99 was his peak!
Looking back through my spotty memories, it's like Kid Rock had his rise in the late 90s and then vanished from the face of the earth after I saw him at Woodstock '99.
...well then they resurrected the brand a decade or two later to help elect the worst person on the planet to the most powerful job on the planet.
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 321d
He was in Joe Dirt as well. Not a masterpiece, but my buddies quoted it constantly until our brains were fully formed.
Zink@programming.dev · 2 pts · 321d
You drive a Hemi? Balls to the wall?
elevenbones@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 322d
What did he taste like?
Bosht@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 321d
Anything to desperately hold on to what little fame he ever had.
djehuti@programming.dev · 3 pts · 322d
Whoa, is he heterochromatic? Never noticed before. (Then again, I try to be exposed to him as little as possible.)
djehuti@programming.dev · 5 pts · 322d
Answer: no, this is just a terrible picture.
RhondaSandTits@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 322d
He looks like he had just been in a bar fight
buttnugget@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 321d
Kid Rock should be abolished.
Pandantic@midwest.social · 2 pts · 322d
“All Summer Long” played constantly when I worked at the mall in college and I fucking wish that song would disappear from existence forever.
WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org · 1 pts · 322d
It's wild how people devote themselves to marketed political drama.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 321d
Aka typical trucker?
notsosure@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 322d
Assistant to the Corporate Loo Cleaning jack.