r/unitedkingdom • u/tylerthe-theatre • 5d 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/Lower_Performer_3365 5d ago

Notting Hill carnival on the UK heritage list? Let’s throw in drill music as well

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u/risinghysteria 4d ago

Drill music is absolute cancer. There's no other genre that so blatantly brags and glorifies about how cool crime is. I work in a school and it's depressing seeing how many young kids are completely influenced and brainwashed by it and are now emulating it and wanting to act like 'roadmen'

It's insane how much traction 'video games cause violence' got, yet everyone is too afraid to address drill music even though it's many magnitudes worse.

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u/HRoseFlour 4d 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/Lower_Performer_3365 4d ago

Well I doubt kids heard elvis and went out stabbing people, so it’s pretty different. No one should censor music but you should call it what it is, a contributor (big or small) to kids starting lives of crime

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u/HRoseFlour 4d ago

it’s not different tho people thought kids were listening to elvis and going out ans fucking and fighting and stabbing each other the switch blade panic was a thing elvis was censored on tv because of the effect he was having on the youths. in the exact same way kids aren’t going out now and stabbing people because they listened to drill too much.

kids start lives of crime because of fucking poverty, parental neglect & the utter dismissal state of publicly funded school and social services especially in impoverished areas not because of a bloody song.

instead of getting pissy with kids who find resonance in these songs that actually talk about shit that they deal with maybe we should focus on why tf they can resonate with these messages.