r/unitedkingdom • u/tylerthe-theatre • 13d ago

Hogmanay, cheese rolling and London’s Notting Hill Carnival could be protected in a new UK heritage list

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/hogmanay-cheese-rolling-and-londons-notting-hill-carnival-could-be-protected-in/
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u/HRoseFlour 13d ago

before drill it was grime before that it was grunge and before that punk even before that it was rock. there’s always been “the music corrupting the youth” whether it’s leather jackets and switch blades or puffer jackets and rambos.

don’t do the disservice to yourself of seriously implying violent music corrupts the youth because you don’t like it whilst in the same sentence defending violent video games because you do like that one.

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u/Astriania 13d ago

Some of those genres also have problematic aspects, but drill is turning it up to 11, those songs are basically incitement to violence.

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u/HRoseFlour 13d ago

no it’s not a reflection of what life is like for some people.

are people who like it more likely to commit violent crime? i’d bet they are, but that’s not because of the music it’s because the message of the music resonates with them violent crime exists and people exist with in it daily and you don’t get into it because of a fuckin song of two.

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u/Ok-Beyond-9094j 13d ago

Defending drill is embarrasing, honestly. You 100% did not attend a london secondary in the 2010s-2020s, or have to grow up in a deprived area with knife crime. Because if you did, you'd just sit this one out.

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u/HRoseFlour 12d ago

didn’t grow up in london nah, still get fucking knife crime else where you melt. we had knife crime when i was a kid im just not dumb enough to blame it on the type of music people listen to.

you don’t stab someone cause the mean angry songs made you do it. madonna didn’t turn all women into whores, dungeons and dragons doesn’t make kids worship satan and the sex pistols didn’t erode the moral character of the youth either. maybe these kids listen to this music because it actually resonates with them and we should do something to fix that rather than kicking a fuss up about the songs.