Why can't politically conservative people write good music?

sweetpotato

_Crazy_Mary_ wrote:

Conservatives are too busy with their jobs and families to have time to sit around smoking pot and coming up with lyrics to a song. I get up, go to work, come home, have dinner with the fam if I'm not working a double, read the kids a story and put them to bed and go to sleep and the routine starts over again. Where would I ever have time to sit around getting high to become musically inclined?

that's a pretty stupid comment. wtf do you think most people do, regardless of their political affiliation? you actually think "conservatives" have cornered the market on going to work and taking care of your family? you're crazy, mary. maybe you should roll up a fattie and relax.

chopitdown

robbie wrote:

It is the same reason why so many pro athletes are republican/conservative....think back to high school, the creative kids, the outcasts... those are your rock stars/actors.... your jocks who beat up the creative kids... those are your meat head Conservatives. you would assume the rock stars/actors would be republican because they are wealthy and republicans certainly look out for the wealthy, but they also seem to have a conscious and an empathy for human suffering, and tend to be appalled by social injustice in spite of the tax cuts they could receive from republican government. pro athletes were and always have been meat head jocks who thrive on "might makes right" philosophy. they just see the world in different ways. "Andrew Clark" grows up conservative taping hairy kids ass cheeks together ..."Allison Reynolds" grows up liberal. sorry for the breakfast club reference.. but you get the gist.

http://theredstater.blogspot.com/2006/03/pro-athletes-and-political-donations.html

I think the rock stars / actors are also liberal b/c to them money isn't as issue so they can support a lot of the grand ideas and it won't effect them. Let's be honest, even Eddie, if he donates half his money to left leaning causes and get's taxed 50% (to support liberal ideas) is still making more money per year than a lot of people will make in their lifetime. It's real easy to be generous / idealistic when it doesn't put you in a pinch.

NMyTree

_Crazy_Mary_ wrote:

Conservatives are too busy with their jobs and families to have time to sit around smoking pot and coming up with lyrics to a song. I get up, go to work, come home, have dinner with the fam if I'm not working a double, read the kids a story and put them to bed and go to sleep and the routine starts over again. Where would I ever have time to sit around getting high to become musically inclined?

You obviously have some misconceptions regarding a few different topics, let me clear a few things up for you.

Most people regardless of their political standings go to work, take care of their families, pay bills and then get up in the morning to do it all over again.

Independants, Liberals, Demos, Repubs .....Libertarians......you name it; most of us do exactly the same thing. Why you believe Conservatives are the only ones who do it, is beyond me. Someone has been lying to you.


Creative minds are a bit different from other people. They create because it is their nature. It's part of who they are.

Creative minds don't need weed/pot to make them creative. Although pot/weed can cause a creative mind to become even more creative. On the other hand, with some creative minds; pot/'weed can completely shut down their creative mind, till the effect of pot/weed subsides.

Pot/weed does NOT make anyone more musically inclined. You're either musically inclined .....or you are not. Anyone who is not musically inclined will simply perform and sound like a stoned person who is not musically inclined, when smoking it.

Pot/weed will not make a non-creative mind, creative. It will simply make them a stoned uncreative mind.

Creative minds are not automatically musically inclined. Many creative minds have absolutely no musical inclination or ability; whatsover. Their creativity lies in other areas.


Just because someone is musically inclined, does not automatically make them a creative mind. There are many excellent musicians who are NOT creative minds. They are incapable of wrting their own music/songs. They are good at reading music and/or duplicating the music written by a someone other than themselves, who is/was a musically creative mind and originally wrote the music/song.

Creative minds apply to all areas of life or deciplines. There are scientists, artists, doctors, technicians, mechanics, carpentars, electricians, interior decorators, computer scientists, writers (literature, poetry, journalism...etc), accountants.....etc; who are creative minds. But there are many of these people, in these fields, who are not creative minds, at all.

None of this is mutually inclusive. Nor is it mutually exlusive. It's all on an individual to individual basis. Everyone is diffierent.

decides2dream

and there is no direct correlation between political leanings and creativity. i believe i mentioned it earlier, as i am sure many others have.....MOST bands i have NO idea what their political affiliation is, at all. only those who incorporate their politics in their art, or those who are outspoken...and let's face it, many, many artists don't speak up at ALL in this arena....are the one's you know and hear about. bottomline, i'd guess at least 75%, conservatively speaking, of artists working now, and you don't know their politics, at all. one can be creative about ALL the human condition, create amazing, great, beautiful, horrific art.....and never even touch upon politics, at all.