Joe C "Da Man".
Posted on 01/07/2005 8:33:37 AM PST by nypokerface
Conservative Christians are flabbergasted about reports that raunchy rock-rapper Kid Rock will perform at a youth concert at the presidential inauguration.
"What in the world are these people thinking?" asked Donald Wildmon, chairman of the American Family Association in Tupelo, Miss. "This is the biggest slap in the face to the Christian conservatives."
Kid Rock reportedly will perform at "America Rocks Today: A Call to Service," a multimedia concert.
Bush's daughter Barbara is the event's co-managing director.
But Kid Rock doesn't exactly seem like her dad's kind of guy.
The almost-34-year-old Detroit bad boy is currently dating porn actress Jessie James, never goes anywhere without a pint of bourbon in his back pocket and rattles off X-rated lyrics that regularly earn his albums parental advisory warnings.
At the same time, he's a die-hard Republican and a big fan of Dubya. He put on a concert during last summer's Republican convention at the Manhattan nightclub Avalon - which the Bush twins attended.
But Kid Rock has a funny way of showing his support.
In his 2001 song "You Never Met a Motherf---er Quite Like Me," he boasts, "I Met the President when I was half-stoned."
And back in 1990 - when President Bush's father was in the White House and his mother, Barbara, was First Lady - Kid Rock sang: "Pimp of the Nation, I could be it/ As a matter of fact, I forsee it/ But only pimpin hoes with the big tush/ While you be left pimpin Barbra Bush."
"Boy," Wildmon admonished. "Where I come from, you talk about my mama like that, those are fightin' words. Shooting words!"
Inauguration planners seemed to be backpedaling yesterday about the event following a call from the Daily News. "Kid Rock has not been confirmed," insisted Tracey Schmitt, a spokeswoman from the Presidential Inaugural Committee. "But I can tell you Hilary Duff has been confirmed, as has JoJo."
Schmitt added, "There's no greater defender of family values than President Bush."
Metallica came up through the ranks of the lower middle class white kids on hard core thrash that was uncompromising and in your face. They were huge without videos, radio, etc and kept putting out great albums. Then, they got on MTV and toned down the image and turned their back on the fans that got them to where they were. They did not put our better music, they put out mainstream nonsense that was terrible and sold their image.
Slayer, which came about at the same time as Metallica was always faster, harder, darker, and more hardcore than Metallica. They were crucified over the lyrics but never sold out and always kept true to their image and their fans.
Ask any metalhead and he will tell you the same thing. Don't get wrong, Metallica is far better than 99% of everything else, but in the metal world, they are not so loved as they once were.
Since people in the entertainment world want to do what they love and make money, would it be the worst for Metallica to serve both ends?
Plus, in your quest for this purity, aren't you from another end of a spectrum kind of doing the same thing the Heavy Christians wanted to do with Kid Rock?
No problem, just shows we can all be easily slide off into doing the same thing when it suits our ends.
Where all human.
Nothing wrong with different approaches to rock and life. Their is a market for all parts of the population to be satisfied.
Meanwhile, that Ashlee Simpson, makes your ears bleed right? Did you catch the booing.
That my friend is a case of Daddy trying to buy a tone deaf daughter a career on a last name alone.
We're human, not where human.... Excuse me.
politics makes strange bedfellows, does it not?
I noticed that too while watching a New Year's Eve show. Maybe Kid and Big can work out some kind of lend-lease deal for performances. Just a thought.
Hank Jr. performed at a Bush rally in Florida during the 2000 election so he's been a Bush supporter. And Kid Rock has become good friends with Hank Jr. and done recordings with him and shows and they hang out. I do not like the majority of Kid Rock's music but I would hope if he performs at the inauguration that he tames it down. He has been hanging with a lot of country artists of late-Kenny Chesney, Gretchen Wilson. He's in Gretchen's Redneck Woman video with Hank.
Thank you so much for this post. You're absolutely dead on target about special interest groups.
Kid Rock is extremely rough on the edges, but is also a proud American, even tipping his hat to southern heritage in some of his stuff.
Of course I agree with you in part, however, Metallica, in their quest to go mainstream, did not produce better music, by almost anyone's standards, they produced cookie cutter songs and demanded respect fo rthe same. That I cannot respect.
By the way, Slayer, who are all in their 40's are republicans, are as hardcore and heavy as anyone ever, frequently sell out big venues and have 5 gold albums under their belts.
Lars Ulrich also soiled himself in the whole napster affair.
FROM A HARD-LINE GEN-X'er:
Oh, boy. Once again, Donald Wildmon doesn't get it.
This is Gen-X conservatism, folks. We're the hard-nosed crowd who are sick of mamby-pamby liberals and their BS "nuanced" view of the world.
We're the ones who resisted our indoctrination by "enlightened liberals" in the schools during the 70's and 80's, and are now calling them out on it. We are no "Silent Majority" - we're the ones who get off our butts and go toe-to-toe against those who want America to become a limp-wristed vassal state of a global UN empire.
Our generation is the one kicking ass in the Middle East, while our drug-addled hippy elders try to hold us back from doing what has to be done to secure the future for OUR children.
And if the so-called "progressives" get what they seem to be after (a second civil war), WE are the ones who will be fighting to keep and expand our liberties.
We care more about preserving our God-given liberties than we do about preserving a Victorian ideal that never really existed in the first place. We love our 1st Amendment rights, and will exercise our 2nd Amendment rights to keep them.
We work hard, we play hard. As long as no one gets hurt and no property gets violated, we're fine with it.
So now, not only do we have the leftists cursing us, we now have self-righteous jerks like Wildmon telling us how rotten and depraved we are. (His organization must be running low on funds and needs to raise a stink to get Granny to send in part of her Social Security check to help stamp out sinnin' an' cussin'.)
Well, the Reverend Donald Wildmon and his pack of busybody, wanna-be censors can try to interfere, but they'd better be ready for a fight with the gloves off.
Oh, and as far as Kid Rock goes, I love the guy. Ever seen his live show? I didn't think so. The boy's got more American flags on and behind his stage than Ted Nugent, and he performs everything from hardcore rap, to rock and metal, and even good old tears-in-my-beer country.
Joe C "Da Man".
Damn Straight!
SLAYER are BIG Rush Limbaugh Dittoheads. A music reporter showed up at their studio to interview the band, and the poor girl had to shout her questions in order to be heard over the Limbaugh show blasting over the PA system.
Check the lyrics to their song "Payback" - it pretty much describes the feelings of the average right-wing/libertarian metalhead towards the Liberal establishment.
"WAAAAR ENSEMBLLLLLLE!!!"
/ I love Slayer - "AWAITING THE HOUR OF REPRISAL - YOUR TIME SLIPS A-WAAAAY!"
TIMMAH!
I've seen them together on CMT a number of times. Check them out there.
Gen X has my vote if that's where you're coming from. You make me proud.
I'm a conservative Catholic Republican, but honestly, the Evangelicals are really starting to get too big in their britches.
I support the Kid. He has been more of a morale booster for our troops and a role model for young Republicans than Many of our Senators have been.
100%!!!!! I am a GenX lawyer who took off a week of work, I am in solo practice, to help GWB win, not because I love GWB, but because I want to win and beat the liberals over and over. We get off our butts!!!!
SSSSSSLLLLAAAAYYYEERR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This from the people who are thrilled to have that Lawrence Welk singer belting John Ashcroft's song. I find that more embarrassing than this, to tell you the truth.
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