Ha. Reality-to-final-product model morphs are always fun. And by fun I mean a deeply disturbing statement about our times.
Monk's fun. I think I posted about it once rambling about how some episodes of it bring out my own OCD so hardcore I have to mute and physically cringe/look away, but I could be lying. Still fun, though. Not something I usually watch, but more than I would watch something like. Boston Legal.
Re: PoC in the music scene, yeah, hardcore is hugely male- and white-dominated. Similar distribution to punk and emo bands. Which is a shame for sheer lack of diversity of thought. I could rattle off a couple metalcore and screamo bands have black singers (most famous probably being Howard Jones from Killswitch Engage, but there's the dude from Sevendust, etc.), and there's a couple who have Asian guys on bass or guitar (veering into power metal, probably Herman Li from Dragonforce is the Big Name Asian), rarely Hispanics pop up (can't think of one in genre atm but I'm sure there is, so have Claudio Sanchez from Coheed as a prog rock example? Atreyu's got a Hispanic bassist, but no one knows who he is.) It's like chicks in the same genre, you see people who are not white-and-male so infrequently it becomes "Oh the band that has a chick drummer/black singer/etc."
Now I go see why I have like 43589437593759843 comments from you in my inbox.
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Monk's fun. I think I posted about it once rambling about how some episodes of it bring out my own OCD so hardcore I have to mute and physically cringe/look away, but I could be lying. Still fun, though. Not something I usually watch, but more than I would watch something like. Boston Legal.
Re: PoC in the music scene, yeah, hardcore is hugely male- and white-dominated. Similar distribution to punk and emo bands. Which is a shame for sheer lack of diversity of thought. I could rattle off a couple metalcore and screamo bands have black singers (most famous probably being Howard Jones from Killswitch Engage, but there's the dude from Sevendust, etc.), and there's a couple who have Asian guys on bass or guitar (veering into power metal, probably Herman Li from Dragonforce is the Big Name Asian), rarely Hispanics pop up (can't think of one in genre atm but I'm sure there is, so have Claudio Sanchez from Coheed as a prog rock example? Atreyu's got a Hispanic bassist, but no one knows who he is.) It's like chicks in the same genre, you see people who are not white-and-male so infrequently it becomes "Oh the band that has a chick drummer/black singer/etc."
Now I go see why I have like 43589437593759843 comments from you in my inbox.