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Miss Rachel is metal, rules

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Pretty sure this is a word use issue. Metal IS pop music, in that it is closely tied to mainstream commercial endeavors.

The GENRE pop music is basically a nonsense term. Its not one thing, its dozens, and metal is a counter response to many of those things.

Yes, you can lump a whole ton of stuff together and make categorical statements about it, even when it shouldn't make sense.

Rap is pop? Yep! And nope! Country is pop? Yep! And nope! Metal is pop? Yep! And nope!

So yes, Metallica as people may (have once) been a part of the ethos that spawned metal and its signifiers, they are absolutely pop stars.

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Miss Rachel is metal, rules

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Youre right, but this isnt me reversing course, its me saying: you are using "pop music" with a different definition from the person you are responding too

Pop-music per your definition is a genre or set of genres. Pop-music per the definition presented though is any successfully commercialized music that by association with the label of that commercialized genre perpetuates further commercialization. Metallica, and thus metal that follows them falls into this category.

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Pete Hegseth removes all women and some Black service members from navy promotion list

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Not sure if troll or... But gonna assume you just can't consider consequences.

They are saying that taking people who know what they are doing and have been trained for a role and then you replace them with idiots who just got out of boot and haven't been trained to make mess for thousands of people, then its gonna be trouble.

So, yes, a random group of men, without any preparation or training to do so, cannot cook for thousands of people.

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death

Why do any of you believe that an image of some day dude in fatigues with a black sun tattoo and goddamn jpeg artifacting has anything to do with the IDF?

I mean fuck the IDF, but this is just shitty propaganda