You know that meme of that conservative content farm scam artist shitheel sitting on some college campus with a sign that says “Male Privilege Is A Myth: Change My Mind!”? Whenever I write a negative review of a nu-metal album I’m pitching the same sign but with a sincere “Please!” at the end. I don’t get off being hard on nu-metal albums but I feel alright doing so because if I believe nu-metal deserves the same esteem that other genres of rock music then it deserves the same scrutiny as well. Plus, I believe myself principled enough to know when to set personal feelings aside in service of albums I simply don’t understand rather than projecting some kind of objective “badness” onto it.1 There’s a touch of 'clickbait’ here too, negativity drives traffic and I’m still 780 subscribers down from making this newsletter into a modestly paying full time venture, but it’s also a personal desire to sift through my dislike of these albums and see if I can correct it.2 Even while writing these little reviews of Koi No Yokan and Issues I was second guessing myself, both albums sounded much better than the last time I went through them… cannot say the same for L.D. 50 though… well, not yet at least.
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