Show Me The Body

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Historically Popular music has used the newest technology to market itself. Some of the past vehicles for distribution have been records, CD’s, tapes, and sheet music. Contemporary popular music follows this trend using the Internet as the new technology to distribute music. Following the creation of internet, most popular artists have used social media and other internet based media such as streaming sites to gain a mass following. One of the main African American genres that has directly benefited from this technology is Rap/Hip-Hop. As of 2017 it has become the most listened to genre in the world thanks to the internet and the wielders of this tech, the youth. On October 2nd, Denzel Curry, a direct beneficiary and result of internet fame, …show more content…

Originating from Brooklyn, New York, Show Me the Body is an industrial punk band which is made up of front man/banjo player Julian Cashwan Pratt, 22, drummer Noah Cohen-Corbett, 20, and bassist Harlan Steed, 21. The band opened their set with one of their most streamed songs, Metallic Taste. During its performance Julian flailed his arms and body around the stage and incited a mosh pit which spanned the entirety of the floor. Every attendee seemed engulfed in their own emotion and the set became implicitly participatory as the crowd, which was mostly white, young men, exploded in dance and violence. Every concert goer seemed to aim their emotion at anybody else on the dancefloor and for the entirety of the set it was a free for all with everybody in sight getting pushed, punched, and …show more content…

As Denzel began his set, a portion of the white kids who only came down to see Show Me the Body left the venue, and the concert became a lot more racially heterogenous as groups of Latino and black people, mostly men, poured in to catch Denzel’s show. The participatory aspect of the show transformed from indirect-anger fueled moshpits, to a more unified energy. Denzel has said in the past “I’m not a super-political n----, but at the same time I’m going to voice my opinion to people in my age group.” (loudandquiet.com). His style of music, angry and energetic rap, has been seen as the music for the minority youth to incite and collect their anger towards all who wish to bring them down, whether our president, or other racist, micro-aggressive people. This was reflected as everyone seemed to unify and simultaneously rap the words to Denzel’s first song of the night, Hate Government. After this song, Denzel gave some short banter thanking everybody for showing up, reminding them that in this political climate the youth holds the most power, ending with a group chant of “Fuck the government”. In the semi-intimate concert of about 150 people, atleast three fourths of the attendees seemed to know every word of most of the songs Denzel performed. Denzel ended his show with his viral song, Ultimate. During

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