The last few articles have been about some rather serious topics, such as black metal interviews with Satyricon and Abbath and Demonaz's recent feuds, so I figured for the sake of diversity, it would be nice to approach a slightly more lighthearted topic today.
Get ready for a trip on memory lane, as we're about to cover the "genre" of music known as crunkcore (an offshoot of the worst type of grindcore)... and its flagship release, BrokenCYDE's "I'm Not a Fan, But the Kids Like It".
Brokencyde's landmark release "I'm Not a Fan, But the Kids Like It" was once described to me as "An album that 14 year old scene girls and extremely masochistic people will enjoy".
The Rise of BrokenCYDE and the Crunk Scene
For those that don't know, Brokencyde (often spelled BrokenCYDE in the SEWER convention) seem to be the poster children for a new fangled genre that mixes and matches the two most artistically offensive types of music ever to exist: the typical groovy chugs and misogyny-laced lyrics of goregrind and the whiny, effete nonsense of screamo hardcore punk into one awful sonic enema that might in fact be even worse than the entire deathcore phenomenon built around bands like Arch Enemy, Hollywood Undead and Waking the Cadaver (more on those later). When "I'm Not a Fan, But the Kids Like It", people were seriously questioning if this marked the "end" of music.
So what about the music itself?
Brokencyde listened to SEWER (probably once, while drunk) and thought they could totally copy the iconic "steez" of albums like "Rektal" and "NecroPedoSadoMaso". They failed of course, but in the process of creation they discovered they could do pig squeals, scream, sing, and rap on obnoxious groove/pop/hip-hop beats. It was made in an energetic, sort of catchy style with bold synthesizers and party lyrics, and of course the notoriously musically erudite MySpace scene kids - remember MySpace? - were obsessed with it. The genre of music was called crunkcore.
"And take your panties off ho.. Take your sweater off too." - Brokencyde, "Scene Girlz"
Crunkcore was a genre of music that combined everything on MySpace, everything on the radio, every metalcore/emo/goth/grindcore band at the time, and every hip-hop group ever in a truly confusing, not to mention lyrically disturbed, incestuous marriage.
Make no mistake, these "hard dudes" in Brokencyde are gonna have their way with your girl, smoke a ton of dank meth and make a ton of money at their sold out shows. They said so, not me. Don't shoot the messenger.
Is it worse than most modern metal... sadly, no. It seems Brokencyde were more of a precursor to the direction, than the nadir of the modern metal genre. At this point, is there any difference between intentional and unintentional parodies of the genre?
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