It’s weird that blues music got watered down by old
white dudes, because good blues music is straight up a soundtrack for fucking,
and nothing about old white dudes with goatees and funny hats is sexy at all.
In fact, that’s my litmus test for blues music. Does it have a good fucking
rhythm, and make you wanna fuck? Then it’s good blues music. And let’s be
honest, most of life’s blues come from fucking, either accidentally fucking the
wrong person, or not being able to fuck the right person. Sometimes you double
down on the poor choices and end up in a situation where you can’t even fuck
the wrong person, but you really want to anyways, and that’s when the high
quality full life blues kick in.
This made me wonder the etymology of “blues” and a rapid internet search told
me it perhaps stems from a 17th century English expression for “the blue devils”
one sees during severe alcohol withdrawal. But like all of the most wonderful
things, there’s no real known beginning of what “the blues” means, nor really
when blues music started. Shit just kinda came together, like cultural gumbo,
and then it existed bigger than anybody realized, and now it ain’t going away, because
once obsessive old white dudes get ahold of something, it’s stuck in for good.
I refuse to believe the true etymology of “the blues” doesn’t have to do with
fucking, or lack thereof though.
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