Media Research Center writer Justine Brooke Murray is clearly not afraid to let her inner racist shine for all to see, and she goes there again in a Feb. 12 post:
You don’t have to be a “boomer” or a snobby jazz enthusiast like me to notice that good taste is now apparently whatever subpar “music” is currently being jammed down our throats by our pop-culture elitists. Take the ghetto mumbling we were supposed to accept for a halftime performance at Sunday’s Super Bowl as an example.
We were all gaslighted into accepting the new standard that asserts the more a talentless “artist” phones it, the more accolades we owe them.
Maybe it’s DEI. Maybe it’s the corporate pressure to produce as much crap within the shortest time frame. Perhaps it’s just as stupid as our cultural elitists charging everyone with being uncool and unenlightened if we reject their push to redefine the mediocre products of laziness as some deep, post-modernist artwork we common Western folk simply don’t understand.
Somewhere during our collective subway ride through the early 2000s, we’ve willingly tolerated the stench of the passenger cars and begun to reward crackheads and bums with a billion dollars music career and a global platform. Thug music, produced by thugs, gets thugs honored as the world’s most renowned composers.
Everyone is still somehow shocked when our most propped-up composers reveal themselves as women beaters and alleged sex traffickers (Looking at you, Diddy.)
It’s because for so long, we’ve blindly rewarded their soulless diarrhea, no matter how sloppy it is, as the music of the “marginalized.”
Murray seems awfully young to throw curmudgeonly tantrums about music she doesn’t like. Psychologists have an explanation for this:
Let’s face it; one of the reasons why older people don’t like a lot of popular music is that it is not written for them. In fact, it is often written for the explicit purpose of riling up older listeners. Punk, rap, hip-hop, heavy metal, anti-war folk music, and many other genres of music began as a youthful rebellion against authority figures and outdated ways of doing things, and this resonates more successfully with younger audiences. On top of this, many popular songs feature themes such as young love and peer rejection that are less relevant to older individuals.
In the accompanying video, Murray showed her racism again by attacking music by black artists as low-class and disgusting while featuring music by white artists as virtuous. She also channeled her inner Ben Shapiro in rehashing a years-old meltdown over the song “WAP.”
Murray seems unable to understand that not all art or music is made for everyone and that this is a matter of personal preference, not a moral failing. Then again, being highly judgmental about people not exactly like her is what right-wingers like Murray love to do.