The band claimed that it “didn’t mean anything” but I still think there was some subtext there, perhaps even subconsciously, that speaks of the (very real, and I lived it) ennui and malaise of white affluent culture in the 90s.
The band claimed that it “didn’t mean anything” but I still think there was some subtext there,
Haha, that’s some hilarious bullshit! No one makes meaningless art, come on now! Well, good for them that they made art during “the end of history”, when you could pretend you were making “meaningless” art. Fucking idiots.
But yeah, I’m a little too young to have experienced the ennui of the 90’s, sounds like a whole ass situation. (Although, in some ways, tbqh, living a materially comfortable life where your biggest worry is fucking ennui doesn’t sound so bad. I wish I could rent an apartment to be sad in for a reasonable amount of money, you know?)
Still, the music video was terrifying, so obviously it’s not all fun and games, even if you can afford your basic necessities
I think the ennui of the 90s, where it seemed a better world was no longer possible and a “long now” was all that was visible on the horizon did break some brains. That feeling of emptiness and boredom encouraged nihilism, selfishness, and a sense that not caring about things wasn’t just a default, but was cool. It became a thing where caring about anything was considered uncool and some took that well into the next century.
I don’t know what ultimately happened to Soundgarden, but a lot of Gen-X bands got really reactionary as years went on, such as Green Day being the one band of any note to sign on to so-called “MetalGate” (an attempt to bring gate to the metal fandom, fortunately unsuccessfully) and almost every personality featured on MTV back then (imagine “influencers” before social networks really existed) aged into a full blown GOP lackey or even a NewsMax propagandist.
The band claimed that it “didn’t mean anything” but I still think there was some subtext there, perhaps even subconsciously, that speaks of the (very real, and I lived it) ennui and malaise of white affluent culture in the 90s.
Haha, that’s some hilarious bullshit! No one makes meaningless art, come on now! Well, good for them that they made art during “the end of history”, when you could pretend you were making “meaningless” art. Fucking idiots.
But yeah, I’m a little too young to have experienced the ennui of the 90’s, sounds like a whole ass situation. (Although, in some ways, tbqh, living a materially comfortable life where your biggest worry is fucking ennui doesn’t sound so bad. I wish I could rent an apartment to be sad in for a reasonable amount of money, you know?)
Still, the music video was terrifying, so obviously it’s not all fun and games, even if you can afford your basic necessities
I think the ennui of the 90s, where it seemed a better world was no longer possible and a “long now” was all that was visible on the horizon did break some brains. That feeling of emptiness and boredom encouraged nihilism, selfishness, and a sense that not caring about things wasn’t just a default, but was cool. It became a thing where caring about anything was considered uncool and some took that well into the next century.
I don’t know what ultimately happened to Soundgarden, but a lot of Gen-X bands got really reactionary as years went on, such as Green Day being the one band of any note to sign on to so-called “MetalGate” (an attempt to bring
gate to the metal fandom, fortunately unsuccessfully) and almost every personality featured on MTV back then (imagine “influencers” before social networks really existed) aged into a full blown GOP lackey or even a NewsMax propagandist.