super bowl - so metal, in a way
Feb. 9th, 2026 09:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alicevangelineThe most metal thing is that - all the musical acts were 100% fabulous, joyful, unapologetic. It would be really challenging to find something threatening about any of it.
Everybody (whether for NFL rules or whatever) could have gone harder, politically -- but instead, chose to show that nobody needs to be afraid of bad bunnies. we're singing about dancing, or sending a warning about the electrical grid, or loving. We have messages of love > hate and togetherness: Oh no - much woke, how threatening.
(Although I could be nasty and say that some americans prefer hate and disparity, and we do have a gross legacy of that, so I guess there is a way to spin it that "togetherness is unamerican?")
Anyway. When the other side is demonizing folks for speaking spanish, and we show them just minding our business and doing music - Nobody gave them anything to point at and say 'see?! it's the liberal scum that's hurting you, they hate us!'
it's kind of forcing people to confront the propaganda. so that's what's metal about it.
("who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes")
Opening with Green Day - who used the pre-trump lyrics - is a choice that says "we will call out bullshit, though."
Everybody (whether for NFL rules or whatever) could have gone harder, politically -- but instead, chose to show that nobody needs to be afraid of bad bunnies. we're singing about dancing, or sending a warning about the electrical grid, or loving. We have messages of love > hate and togetherness: Oh no - much woke, how threatening.
(Although I could be nasty and say that some americans prefer hate and disparity, and we do have a gross legacy of that, so I guess there is a way to spin it that "togetherness is unamerican?")
Anyway. When the other side is demonizing folks for speaking spanish, and we show them just minding our business and doing music - Nobody gave them anything to point at and say 'see?! it's the liberal scum that's hurting you, they hate us!'
it's kind of forcing people to confront the propaganda. so that's what's metal about it.
("who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes")
Opening with Green Day - who used the pre-trump lyrics - is a choice that says "we will call out bullshit, though."