Family Guy is one of the only comedy shows that I will watch, not sure why. And while Peter is the biggest dumbshit you're likely to see on television next to Homer Simpson, every once in a while the show gets something right. Such is the case of the episode that just aired a couple minutes ago "Saving Private Brian." And no, I'm not talking about the whole deal with Stewie and Brian getting signed up for the army and going over to Iraq, I'm staying safely away from everything and anything political. Instead I'm talking about how Chris finds his talent in singing for a hardcore band at his school. Unfortunately, Chris also adopts the stereotypical persona of a metalhead. He turns into such a little punk bastard and starts disobeying his parents and generally causing trouble. And of course the first thing Peter and Lois blame it on? The music itself that he's started listening to, specifically Marilyn Manson...
O.K. I'm not the biggest Manson fan or anything but he definitely doesn't deserve the crap that the Griffin's give him. Most artists don't. There's still a few who are reported to be total jackasses out there so I can't say all of them don't deserve it in good conscience. Thankfully, Manson manages to sort everything out... Just in a really sappy way. Everyone learn a lesson from this please! 1) Music doesn't corrupt kids and if you don't want them listening to it then monitor them and make sure they don't and 2) Undergrounders are not the total punk bastards you think we are, some can be but we don't turn into one as a general rule when adopting an underground lifestyle.
Manson was interviewed in "Bowling for Columbine." As controversial and kind of messy as that is for a documentary, he actually had some really good points about the root of the problem and why music is blamed. Interesting stuff.
ReplyDeleteYea there was another band, I think it was Nine Inch Nails, that actually had a whole paragraph about that stuff on the booklet for one of their CD's...
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