listening to some presidents of the United States of America.

peaches, specifically.

but I’ve been thinking about this point with a lot of bands, and songs I love, lately.

also, I know this is crazy, but apparently I forgot there’s a ninja fight at the end of the peaches video?

that was surprising.

  • RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world
    31·
    3 days ago

    It doesn’t matter what I say

    So long as I sing with inflection

    That makes you feel that I’ll convey

    Some inner truth of vast reflection

    But I’ve said nothing so far

    And I can keep it up for as long as it takes

    And it don’t matter who you are

    If I’m doing my job then it’s your resolve that breaks

      • shneancy@lemmy.world
        10·
        2 days ago

        fascinating how far we’ve gotten in the science of abusing every aspect of human psychology

        there’s so, so many ways to influence others

        recently i’ve been binging some true crime, two videos by two different youtubers, same topic. A mother murdered by her adopted teen son

        • video 1: the mother is presented as a flawed saint, not perfect but with a big heart. the teen is presented as a sociopathic monster, troubled, ungrateful, heartless. the second to last fight he broke her arm. the last fight he killed her. when he spoke of how his mother abused him the youtube comments sang “what a monster, to try to slander his mother after he killed her”

        • video 2: a few more details appear, the focus shifts towards the mother. she once had two adopted sons, the second she adopted so “[her son] can experience having a sibling”, some time later CPS had to intervene as the second kid had bars in his windows and a bucket for a toilet. he was deemed troubled and ultimately ran away from home. she had a tendency to fight with her remaining son, degrade him on the basis of his race “if i hadn’t adopted you, you’d be standing on the border with the rest of those people” (she might’ve said “idiots” but i can’t be bothered to check). she felt like her teenage son owed her money for phone bills. the narrator here goes into detail how antisocial personality disorders can be caused by both genetic and environmental factors, they can be learnt behaviours. the remaining son often left home and lived with others after he fought with his mother, mostly about money. here the fact he broke her arm in a fight is ommited, just mentions how he lived with another person and thought long if he should come back. he’s presented as a troubled teen abused by his mother who taught him heartlessness and who ultimately snapped and killed her. the youtube comments sang “what a terrible woman, how could she treat him like that”

        same situation, two videos giving you the “correct” interpretation of the events. if i hadn’t accidentally found the other one i wouldn’t even have known there was more to the story, it seemed very matter of fact, very objective, just reporting on what happened & the context that caused it.

        it’s really that simple, all it takes is to pick the facts that suit your narrative and present them, you’re not really lying that way, but who would consider it truth either

        and that’s one tactic amongst many

        • Pudutr0ñ@feddit.cl
          2·
          2 days ago

          Crazy stuff, and yeah. Tip of the iceberg.

          This is why I chcukle to myself when people stress the relevance that something is a fact. You can do a whooooole lot of stuff with facts if you know what you’re doing.

  • gointhefridge@lemmy.zip
    14·
    2 days ago

    I always viewed PUSA as a more original rock flavored Weird Al. Similar energy, but they did their own thing.

    Fun fact, the lead singer went on to write many albums of children’s music as Caspar Baby Pants.

  • Quazatron@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 days ago

    I’ll upvote any PUSA reference, but I agree that a lot of lyrics seem meaningless, as they refer to bugs and balloons and whatever. Or are they?

    Anyway, the music is great if you like rock, and I’ll take lyrics about Matchbox cars over lyrics about bitches and bling.

  • Beacon@fedia.io
    84·
    3 days ago

    Hang on a second, you’re saying that music is mainly about how things SOUND!!! That’s a brand new revelation!!! 🤣

        • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksOP
          32·
          3 days ago

          whaaat?

          so a comment mentioned lump… that’s a quite a leap to your notion that Lemmy is nothing but presidents of the United States band posts.

          I think the fact that you have that post at hand maybe indicates that you’re pretty into the band?

          rather than all of Lemmy being into that band.

          who does rock.

          from my absurdly extensive(editorial opinion) user history alone, you’ll be able to tell that… wait let me check how many posts and comments I have…

          that .01% of my posts are about that band.

          I don’t think the POTUS band affliction is as a widespread as you are insinuating.

          I see a lot more posts about the coward POTUS than the band POTUS these days.

          • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
            4·
            3 days ago

            I had it in hand because it was on the second page of my comment history and I knew I had posted an image. I just found the fact that I’ve repeatedly been reminded of a band I haven’t thought of in years several times in a week funny.