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Chemo for this thread.
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Did you forget how to read, or did you never have the attention span, little zoomerite? I'm taking a descriptive vs prescriptive stance on what metal means.
Prescriptive: "Only this rigid definition is valid."
Descriptive: "Words mean what people actually use them to mean."
If the world called Bon Jovi and Motley Crue "metal" in 1987, then that was metal, full stop. Language is democratic, not priestly.
Reality doesn't care about your performative religion of "metal". When 80s kids filled stadiums for Def Leppard or Crue, that was metal culture in action. When millions moshed to Slipknot in 2000, that was metal culture evolving. You can't erase that by declaring it "not metal". You can only alienate yourself from what the word has come to mean. And the original meaning of metal was Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple anyway.
And metal is about rebellion and freedom, not adhering to a rigid doctrine.
