Rob Zombie was definitely a youthful memory for me. He held a few of my significant pre-teen memories within songs such as "Living Dead Girl" and out of respect for certain people, I will not go into detail about those memories. But I had long since left him where I felt he belonged (for me, perhaps not for everyone), in my past. So, since I had made a valid effort to ignore anything new that came from this musician since... I dunno, 2003, the first thing I had to do before saying anything about him was to see who he was now as an artist. Because often, musicians will significantly change over such a gigantic gap in time. So, on to Spotify I went, and there I found... Rob Zombie. The same Rob Zombie I had dismissed over a decade ago (again, not because of him, but because of what he symbolized for me). Sure, he uses a little more off to the side sound effects, sure he layers his music a little more. But he still has those little bits that sound like a newscaster in his music, he still sounds like a growling giant, he still creates auditory nightmares and sells them in albums. So, basically, what I found was... He still has nothing for me. Everything I will ever get out of his music is what I have already gotten: a song to compartmentalize a seriously devastating portion of my life into. And I don't even really want to re-visit that. He still thinks very highly of himself, though, so if you'd rather go with his opinion than mine, feel free to love him.
But going just a step further, if you watch my videos or read my blog posts, or my facebook posts, or my tweets, you probably know how much I loathe excessive repetition. Is it really that much to ask that a musician take the time to write more than one verse and an extra line to repeat throughout the rest of the song? I mean, how many times do you need to repeat the same line? What is the purpose of this? His excessive repetition goes beyond excessive... on to sickening. It's a slap in the face to artists who take the time to write full songs and get paid less than a quarter of what he's making from those unintelligent one-liners.
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