When I was a kid I loved Alice Cooper. He also scared the hell out of me. I was pretty young to be listening to Alice, but there I was, five years old and loving it to death. During the daytime hours I was in awe of "Welcome to My Nightmare", Vincent Price was magnificent, but come dusk, that shit got scary.
Fast-forward to adulthood, yes adulthood.
I have come to the conclusion that music isn’t scary, bands aren’t scary, the mere fact that they are musicians excludes any such notion. We are talking about musical notes and the usually pretty fucking boring people who play them, not “oh my gawd their music is terrifying, have you heard about them, they display carcasses on the stage”. They didn’t kill those animals, someone else did. THEY, are musicians. No one can murder you when they are playing music, it's impossible. Just because musicians aren’t to be trusted doesn’t mean they are scary. From Narcocorridos to Gangsta Rap, to Bach’s Tocatta and Fugue in D minor, music isn’t scary.
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