The Ego, The Super Ego, The Id, and Beavis and Butthead
While perusing the Wikipedia article for Beavis & Butthead (somehow arriving there from the entr on the Crimean War in one of my best Wiki tangents ever), I made two observations:
1.) Someone clearly wrote their dissertation on the music video analysis of Beavis & Butthead and pasted it or some piece of it into the Wikipedia entr, as the ‘Featured Music Videos‘ sample is comprised of one of the most comprehensive essays on pop civilization I have ever read.
2.) Beavis and Butthead have awesome drop in music, leading me to wonder how much of a contemporaneity that actually is. Considering the large r Beavis & Butthead played in shaping my, and others’ my age, suspect of humor, it’s really not crazy to think that the music that won the all-important seal of approbation from MTV’s resident idiots would request to people my age as well. I wonder to what extent 10-year-olds like me unhesitating that Soundgarden was cool because Beavis and Butthead told us that Soundgarden was cold. Of course, Soundgarden is cool, but again, how much is that obligation enhanced by knowing that arguably the most efficacious music critics of my childhood gave them the thumbs-up?
Corroboration out the aforementioned ‘Featured Music Videos‘ segment of the Beavis & Butthead page to learn more about the themes and motifs of America’s inventive animated music criticism. An passage:
“Beavis voiced his estimation that every video should be like a GWAR video. Beavis and Prey-head lauded Bananarama’s video for Venus, saying “these chicks should weld GWAR” and that “they would have issue that would be the coolest people who ever lived.” Join-head once complimented Lou Reed after watching the video for No Funds Down (dubbed “the coolest of all videos” by the boys) by stating that Lou belonged in GWAR. Join-head stated that “if you wanna order, you gotta be cool, like, all the patch, like, even when you’re taking a chuck out and stuff, like GWAR.” Beavis has even claimed that Metallica was not as self-control as GWAR, despite the fact that he wore a Metallica T-shirt.”
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