There's a lot of vapid moralizing in tons of stuff -- on this list, among politicians, CEO, press conferences/spokesmen, finger-wagging at demos by activists, and, of course, punk. But dismissing a punk wholesale is pretty cavalier and is especially a difficult conclusion to come to if, in fact, you listened the Ian Bone/Class War interview w/ Doug on his last show (31-15-07) or have heard some of the really fine recent post-80s hardcore by bands like Born Against and, I'd also say, World Burns to Death, and plenty of fine others. A lot of it is political music. Some people don't like that; they think Utah Phillips moralizes too much for them. Can't please everyone.
But "I Kill Children," which is a song I like, isn't about Jello wanting to kill kids. He's assuming a narrative voice like a lot of singers do -- for example, the outlaw country movement, speaking in the voice of lonely desperados or whatever. Not everything written is a position paper advocating "pro-" this or "pro-" that. And, yeah, there's a lot of shock here and there. Some of it can be profound and challenging, some of it dismissable.
I haven't seen Grindhouse, and if it's anything like KIll Bill 1 & 2, I'll be glad. "Too Drnk to Fuck" being played by the DKs during a rape scene doesn't sit well with me, and one of the key members didn't want it. Maybe I'll change my mind and see how great it is when I see the movie. But right now it seems an odious way to use the song.
-B.
Chris Doss wrote:
> Well, is Tarantino actually advocating rape? I doubt
> it.
>
> There's nothing satirical in "I Kill Children" at
all.
> It's just intended to shock the audience, not any
> different from stuff by the Mentors. (It's not a
very
> good song either, probably the DKs' worst in my
> opinion, but that's beside the point.)