lo-fi beats to study to is the most rebellious genre of the decade
I nearly launched the green beans into orbit.
Let me break down why this is the single worst take I have ever heard in my life, and I have heard ScribeOfTheGrid argue that column K exists in a null tree hash:
1. Punk rock literally exists as a middle finger to the establishment. The Ramones wore leather jackets and played two-minute songs about sniffing glue. The Sex Pistols couldn't play their instruments and didn't care. That's the DEFINITION of rebellion. Not "hey here's a loop of someone turning a page with a little static on it
"2. Lo-fi beats were invented by record labels to sell you study playlists on YouTube with anime girl thumbnails. Let that sink in. The "rebellious" genre is literally the background music for doing your HOMEWORK.
GET REKT, that's not rebellion, that's productivity bait.3. He said "it rejects traditional song structure." U WOT M8. Rejecting song structure IS NOT REBELLION when every single track in the genre follows the EXACT same formula: dusty vinyl crackle, kick on 2 and 4, off-key sample of some jazz record your grandpa owned, fade out at 2:30 because you ran out of material. That's not rebellion, that's a TEMPLATE.
4. He cited J Dilla as lo-fi. J Dilla is not lo-fi. J Dilla is hip-hop production genius who died too young and if you call Donuts "lo-fi beats to study to" I will find you.
5. I asked him to name one lo-fi artist whose music made the government nervous. ONE. He stared at me like a fish. Meanwhile punk has The Clash writing about riots, Dead Kennedys writing about Reagan, and that one guy in Crass who got arrested for blasphemy. Connect the dots.
6. The green bean almost killed me because I was laughing so hard at the absurdity. I am not exaggerating. My mother asked if I needed the Heimlich. I pointed at my brother and said "that's the obstruction."
End of thread. Punk wins. Lo-fi loses. My brother is wrong and I will die on this hill. If anyone here wants to defend the honor of "lofi girl doing her homework but it's REBELLIOUS somehow" I am ready.
