One if the cacs who I used to talk about Digable Planets with said the same thing about their last albumWhite people have an uncanny ability to compartmentalize contradictory ideas.
They hear the song and enjoy the sonics. When they go to the concert, they feel the energy and pretend the message doesn't apply to them. But when the music is goes off that's where all the "love" stops and they get right back on code.
Never forget when I used to lurk KTT and Cyhi's Black History project dropped. White kids were saying that they loved the production and bars but the overall problack theme was "annoying. "
It depends on the fans.
Are they overall metal fans, or are they fans that listen to the artist for the lyrics themselves?
I know plenty of fans of groups like System of a Down, The Clash, even Green Day who legitimately give no credence to the anti-capitalist, anti-racist, and socialist lyrics of the group; they just enjoy the grooves and hooks of the songs.
I also know a lot of people who listen to those artists BECAUSE OF the concepts and the message itself.
Remember Chocolate Rain?
Song was exclusively about systemic racism, and Blackness in the US. Every single line of the song.
It went STRAIGHT over the vast majority of White people's heads.
Including the executives of Coca-Cola
So I automatically assume that whoever is listening, especially if they're White, has no idea what's going on until proven otherwise
I wish I could find it now but there was a tweet earlier this year from some alt right retard complaining about how he never realized how "liberal" their lyrics were until now.
do you listen to music or do you just skim thru it
