Syd, the young female member/engineer of the group, doesn’t have a problem with the misogynistic lyrics, why should you? Don’t you get it? HAHAHAHA, you don’t get it! Link
“People just choose to be offended by stuff. If they are, then that sucks and I’m sorry, but they don’t have to keep listening,” says Syd the Kid, 18, the group’s in-house sound engineer and only female member. “Words are words. They don’t act out what they say, they just say it.”
There is still some graying happening here:
In fact, early Eminem is the largest precedent for Tyler’s sense of humor, which occupies a space where casual homophobia, murderous tendencies and misogyny aren’t taboo. Many critics read this as an attempt to purposefully shock, but mostly that shock can be attributed to a generational divide drawn along humor lines.
Not sure if invoking the you’re-too-old, you-don’t-get it argument to account for people’s refusal to fully embrace Odd Future is something I completely agree with. There are those who think the shtick is cute but not worth all the hype. I think getting down to the bottom of that hype would be a meaningful topic of writing. What is it that the fans really think? We know what the $alivating marketers think, but how do those tween to teen young male crowds really interpret an Odd Future? More generally, how do they interpret rap in this age of 24/7 entertainment?
