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Ahhh, ICP. So white trash and so terrible.
Also, after watching “Miracles”, watch this SNL parody video.
The SNL parody is kind of dumb, though - I mean, it doesn’t need to be parodied. It does that quite well itself.
Oh good lord.
Before I saw Miracles, I had never seen an ICP music video or heard one of their, ah, songs. I had the idea they were some psycho metal group like Kiss or GWAR or something. When I saw it was a skinny little twerp and a dude bigger than John Goodman in face paint and singing corny-ass hiphop, I could not. Stop. Laughing.
“Fucking Magnets, how do they work? And I don’t want to talk to a scientist. Yall motherfuckers lyin and getting me pissed”
Is this… a joke? There are too many “motherfuckers” flying around for ICP to be reinventing themselves as… christian music?
I don’t get it.
Current theory is that ICP is trolling.
Since the whole basis of ICP is one giant troll, this is hardly a theory.
I used to listen to them in high school, mostly because my friends did. It takes a lot of songs before you really “get” what ICP is trying to do. They’re not trying to be some death metal or gangster rap group, nor are they a comedy group, really.
What they’re trying to be is fun. They use this persona of a gangster/metal group that talks about killing people, raping women, stealing, and practicing satanism but it’s all juxtaposed with messages like “respect your elders”, “isn’t the universe mysterious?”, and “give to charity and be nice to strangers”.
Their message is “Don’t take any of this seriously.” That’s what the clown make-up is about. They’re trying to tell you that they’re just goofing off. They’re acting, and that none of it is real.
Have you ever seen a goth teen that mopes around, acting like they don’t give a damn about anything, acting antisocial, but you know that deep down, they want to be asked to the school dance and they’re worried about passing their SATs and they’re saving up to buy their first car? In other words, they’re normal?
That’s ICP. They say to those kids “We’re different! Look at us! We’re weird! Haha, but not really. We’re actually pretty normal.” Isn’t that what circus clowns do anyway?
Now what does that mean for their followers, the juggalos? Members of the posse, if you will? It means they belong to something that has no rules about how they behave, dress, or speak. Consider the lyrics to “What is a Juggalo?”
I will admit, the Juggalo News sketch I saw on a comedy site at one point (CollegeHumor or Cracked) was fucking hilarious, and I think I understand what ICP’s about.
“Fucking blankets! How do they work?”
No shit. Where’s all these “smart” “scientists” when it comes to the bigger mysteries? Like is the world round or is it flat?
I dont know why Violent Jay keeps doing this rap thing. He’s already a success in the kitchen!
I had never heard of this, but I was playing L4D2 one day and wound up with a player named “Fucking Magnets How Do They Work,” and I thought it was hilarious. Just from those six words, the satire seems clear.
Do any of their fans really get this though? I’ve known Juggalos and they were all tasteless ignorant asshats. Exhibit A: Google “Juggalo baby funeral.”
For some reason seeing one subculture trash another made me laugh. No offense to steampunk, of which I know almost nothing other than the Jules Verne gear.
I’m also not personally familiar with juggalos, but if the worst that can be said is that they’re “tasteless, ignorant asshats”, and it keeps them off the street, then more power to 'em.
My oldest loves this band.
I have to say I’m quite fascinated about how the hierarchy works with this group. For instance, how does Twizted relate to this group? And why do some of them wear make up and others don’t?
Do each of them write their own rhymes?
Just saw Coolio on a local news morning show showing off his New Juggalo tatoo, said he’s signing with Psychopathic Records for his next record.
Back in 1997, I was hanging out with a close friend, and he said let’s go buy that new album that just got banned by Disney. I didn’t know wtf he was talking about, but I had a car, so we drove to the record store and we each bought a copy of The Great Milenko (this was before Napster and before I or anyone I knew had a CD burner.)
I thought it was alright but a little out there, and I didn’t like the whole clown theme at first. My friend immediately fell in love. To this day he follows them and their circle of other musical acts, watches their videos, buys their albums etc. He even has a Psychopathic hatchetman tattooed right in the middle of his chest. A few other friends and I got into them too over the next few years but not to any extent near the way that one friend did.
So I’ve heard all their albums, been around a lot of juggaloes, been very close friends (still am to this day) with one very hardcore juggalo. They’re funny, they’re fun. It’s all in good fun, really. The white trash juggaloes that catch so much heat on the internet seem to be a relatively recent phenomenon-- the last 6 to 8 years or so. We didn’t know or see any of them back in the '90s, and all of them seem to be younger than us now. Maybe they were in Michigan all along, but I never saw them in the southeast or southwest until the last few years. Still don’t see many of them, so, meh.
“Miracles” has some nuggets of sincerity but it is absolutely meant to be funny.
And, by the way, they’ve always been into God, if not explicitly Christian. Always. They’ve always been extremely anti-racist, too.
I recall one person ranting about juggaloes and saying how racist they were. I thought “:dubious::dubious::dubious: this person is just trying to get everyone on board with his/her juggalo hate.”
I’m not an ICP expert, but I’ve always had the impression that they didn’t take themselves quite too seriously. Which is part of the reason I actually respect them, though don’t listen to their music.
ICP is the only group I can think of that can always make me laugh–they’re just freaking hysterical. Well, Zappa makes me laugh too, but ICP is more over the top and goofy. Been listening to them for well over ten years now, and I don’t get the hate unless the haters just don’t get it, which is pretty likely.