After watching a music program, I can’t remember anything but the line of the video jock who said, “It’s okay. I haven’t taken a bath. I’m a rockstar anyway.” With an eyebrow raised, I quickly retorted. Here went a true blue rockstar whose idea of a rakizta was still a man with tattered jeans and a four-year-old Chucks/Pony never cleaned since the day of purchase. Grow up!
STEREOTYPIST.
STEREOTYPING is such an old practice that we cannot give up (After this, I will try to.) You cannot simply reduce a person’s personality by judging a single facet that you see. It’s okay if we are stereotyping/categorizing a person’s music genre (rock, metal, blues, pop and others.) But sadly, this a social disease not only limited to music.
If we meet a person, we automatically categorize them after five seconds of the meeting. Human nature! I’m guilty because I have my own categories (the timid, assertive, bitchy and abusive. The last one is purely instinctual. Sometimes you meet a person with a mean gleam in the eyes and he gives you the creeps. You know what I mean.)
So the oppositional defiant (a beautiful synonym for the aggressive word rebel) in me was having fits with what the vj said. I really admire the Brownman Revival, one of the best reggae bands (for me, the very best!) with great quality music and a screw-you image. Why? They do not limit themselves with the dreadlocks and Jamaican colors. They are making a very clear statement that even they don’t look ‘reggae,’ they can produce great sounds (Enjoyed them last Jan during the Ati-Atihan 2011.)
For all the nerds, jocks, sosy-highs, so-so’s and the few “walang pakialam sa mundong ibabaw,” show the world you are MORE than what they can see.
And for all the ‘judges,’ I have a word for you, FUCK OFF! (That’s two!)
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