History Quotes / TheMoralSubstitute

->"It wasn't just not being {{gangsta|Rap}}. [[Music/ATribeCalledQuest Tribe]] wasn't gangsta. The Music/BeastieBoys were not gangsta. But Arrested Development felt ''anti''-gangsta. You read all the praise of [their] first album, and so much of it is about not being Music/IceCube or Music/IceT. [...] No one took their talk of revolution seriously after they got so much praise from the establishment while other acts were clearly very threatening to it. Ice-T was rapping about [[CopKiller killing cops]] and Arrested Development was rapping about playing a game of horseshoes. A game of ''horseshoes!'' When Ice-T says he hated them, it's also because he took [their] whole 'life music' thing as an implicit criticism that he only made 'death music'. [...] For a group who rapped about 'Who are we to judge?', they feel pretty judgey. They absolutely set themselves up for a really tedious discourse about who's really [[SellOut selling out]] by living down negative stereotypes versus living up to unthreatening positive stereotypes. It's not like gangsta rap is beyond criticism -- there's plenty to criticize -- but the overwhelming impression was if you supported one, you were attacking the other. If you listened to ''Zingalamaduni'', you had to put down the 'Gin & Juice'. And if people are forced to choose between Music/SnoopDogg and you, you lose. Every single time."

-->'''Colin Spacetwinks''', [[https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/why-is-there-so-much-christian-sonic-the-hedgehog-fan-art.html "The Pious World of Christian Sonic the Hedgehog Fan Art"]]

->''"I kind of got the sense that radio took on Music/JuiceWRLD as the acceptable mainstream version of Music/{{XXXTentacion}}, with...no history of violence."''
-->'''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows'''; ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peogU7lDesw The Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2018]]''

-->'''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows'''; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peogU7lDesw The Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2018]]

->To be a Christian youth-group kid is to be in an eternal state of knowing that you are getting the second-hand versions of everything else that’s cool, and you’re often getting it [[TwoDecadesBehind years after everyone has already moved onto the next thing]]. That your parents and your church are constantly handing you the knockoff that’s not nearly as good, not nearly as fun, and certainly not considered “cool” by anyone other than the people handing it to you in the first place. Whatever the trend, whatever the era, you don’t get to be part of it. In the ’90s, while everyone else at middle school was buzzing about ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' or ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon}}'' or ''Literature/HarryPotter'', you’re left out of the loop.\\\

->To be a Christian youth-group kid is to be in an eternal state of knowing that you are getting the second-hand versions of everything else that’s cool, and you’re often getting it [[TwoDecadesBehind years after everyone has already moved onto the next thing]]. That your parents and your church are constantly handing you the knockoff that’s not nearly as good, not nearly as fun, and certainly not considered “cool” by anyone other than the people handing it to you in the first place. Whatever the trend, whatever the era, you don’t get to be part of it. In the ’90s, while everyone else at middle school was buzzing about ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'' or ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon}}'' or ''Literature/HarryPotter'', you’re left out of the loop.\\\

You can see American Christianity grasping for relevancy in the many teen-oriented bibles on the market. There’s the [[XtremeKoolLetterz X-Treme]] Teen Bible ([[TotallyRadical sunglasses and skateboards and neon fashion]]), The Manga Bible (big-eyed and spiky-hair renditions of the apostles), and The Gamer Bible (voxels and crafting and health bars and a summary of [[Literature/TheFourGospels the book of Luke]] laid out in metaphors of leveling up your dedication to Jesus Christ). There are Christian versions of ''[[VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution Dance Dance Revolution]]''. Christian cover albums of the latest top ten pop songs. Christian versions of ''VideoGame/PacMan'' created by hacking the original code. There’s [[VideoGame/Super3DNoahsArk an old first-person shooter]] where you are Noah on the ark, using a slingshot to herd around animals to their stables. Christian kids were offered all this while their friends at school -- or the people at school they wish were their friends -- were experiencing the real thing. This dearth left kids scrabbling for their own cross-section of cool and Christian. Dancing right on the border of “extremely online” and “extremely offline,” you will find the Christian ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' fandom.

-->-- ''[[Literature/{{Psmith}} Psmith, Journalist]]''

->To be a Christian youth-group kid is to be in an eternal state of knowing that you are getting the second-hand versions of everything else that’s cool, and you’re often getting it years after everyone has already moved onto the next thing. That your parents and your church are constantly handing you the knockoff that’s not nearly as good, not nearly as fun, and certainly not considered “cool” by anyone other than the people handing it to you in the first place. ...There are Christian versions of ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution''. Christian cover albums of the latest top ten pop songs. Christian versions of ''VideoGame/PacMan'' created by hacking the original code. There’s an old first-person shooter where you are Noah on the ark, using a slingshot to herd around animals to their stables. Christian kids were offered all this while their friends at school--or the people at school they wish were their friends--were experiencing the real thing.
-->Colin Spacetwinks, ''[[https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/why-is-there-so-much-christian-sonic-the-hedgehog-fan-art.html The Pious World of Christian Sonic the Hedgehog Fan Art]]''

-->-- ''[[https://pitchfork.com/features/article/6216-for-whom-hells-bells-toll/ Pitchfork]]''

-->"Christian pop groups, Christian folk groups, Christian heavy-metal groups, Christian reggae groups... No album was actually titled ''I Found God And Lost My Talent'', but I'm sure that was just an oversight."\\
-- PJ O'Rourke, in ''Holidays in Hell'', upon visiting a Christian music store at the Christian theme park ''Heritage USA'' in 1987.

-->Cosy Moments, as its name (an inspiration of Mr. Wilberfloss's own) is designed to imply, is a journal for the home. It is the sort of paper which the father of the family is expected to take home with him from his office and read aloud to the chicks before bed-time. It was founded by its proprietor, Mr. Benjamin White, as an antidote to yellow journalism. One is forced to admit that up to the present yellow journalism seems to be competing against it with a certain measure of success.\\
-- '''PGWodehouse''', ''Psmith, Journalist''

-- PJ O'Rourke, in ''Holidays in Hell'', upon visiting a Christian music store at the Christian theme park ''Heritage USA'' in 1987.

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