Why I Give Something Involving a Monkey's "2A" an F-minus
- Peter Fibbington
- Jun 14, 2022
- 2 min read
Those who know me and my work know that I don't often talk about things as trivial as music. Although, for my money, I can't imagine a summer afternoon without some of my beloved Jimmy Buffett on the old bluetooth speaker on the back deck. However, I'm compelled to talk about "music" today as I was horrified to hear a song playing in my children's room last night on YouTube. What I heard was something vile, loud, and, frankly, terrifying both sonically, politically, and philosophically. The band Something Involving a Monkey recently released an all-too-typical pro-gun screed called "2A" and it's worse than you can imagine.
The "song" in question features such intellectual quips as "bang bang," which is screamed over and over again. The "music" devolves into a chaotic, caucouphonous mess with the lead "singer" talking about tyranny. The only thing tyrannical is what these "musicians" are doing to their instruments and their listeners with their propogandistic and dare I say pedophilic music. Yes. I consider this music to be pedophilia because it feels like it's attempting to lure and groom our children.
How else can you explain the reggae section at the four-minute mark of the song? Kids love reggae because it's wholesome music. Something Involving a Monkey uses it as a bait and switch to lure children to their message, only to hit them over the head with a metal sledgehammer to end their song. You'd be better off with an actual sledgehammer to the head than to listen to this music.
Now, I'm not so naive as to think that all music has to be nice and wholesome. I listen to some dangerous music myself. However, when the dangerous music is in service of a destructive political agenda and, as I mentioned early is pedophilic as well, then it's just gone too far.
I encourage you to listen to it for yourself so that you can be prepared if it were to make it into your home via Youtube, spotify, or worse.
Thanks for reading. You can always count on me to give you the honest truth and to cover the waterfront.
I tried to make sense of what you said. In fact I read it three times, all I took away from your writing was WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU ON? And who is the audience you were writing this to? In my own opinion you belong in an asylum! I certainly hope you don’t get paid to write such jibberish!
Dumbest fucking article I’ve ever read. How about instead of getting your panties in a twist over a song, maybe focus on actual real world problems. People like you just love to blame your shitty parenting on anything. I bet your kids secretly hate you and can’t wait to be self sufficient and move away from your psychotic ass lmao.
I'm sure putting certain words in quotes like you do makes you believe you look erudite, but it actually makes you look like an arrogant, judgemental tool. When you put words like music, song, musicians, and singer in quotes like you did what you are saying is that you do not believe that this is real music or a real song or that they are real musicians. The idea that music you don't like isn't real music is condescending and discriminatory, and a well educated "journalist" should know better. (see what I did there?) Quoting the second amendment is only "grooming" if one completely fails to understand A: the second amendment and B: grooming. Kids love reggae music because it is wholesom…
There's plenty "grooming of children" examplesgoing on these days that you could have wrote about, but this song is not one of them. Waste of time reading this article
Maybe if you are that terrified of music, you should screen what you kids listen to or watch on the internet. Lazy ass parent. "Destructive political agenda"?? The bill of rights is not a destructive political agenda. Now maybe if this album was about "trans genders or abortion" you would be correct. I'm guessing this band achieved it's goal, to trigger weaklings with a parody. Lighten up pansy.