I was reading the popular mp3 blog, GuerrilasAndBears, and I came across a song by the lead singer of SIGUR ROS and his ghey lover. They are from Iceland, so they probably ‘bond’ by doing artistic projects and stuff like that. I listened to this song, and it was ‘whatever.’ Sorta just thought it might help me reconnect with ‘how alive I felt’ the first time I heard the SiggyRoos 100 blog years ago.
[MP3]
Jonsi & Alex – boy 1904
///MP3 via http://gorillavsbear.blogspot.com/2009/07/mp3-riceboy-sleeps-boy-1904.html
Then I read the ‘description’ of the song, and it features a sample by a CASTRATO SINGER. I had to google ‘castrato’ to see if it was some kewl indie trend:
A castrato is a man with a singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto voice produced either by castration of the singer before puberty or one who, because of an endocrinological condition, never reaches sexual maturity. Castration before puberty (or in its early stages) prevents a boy’s larynx from being transformed by the normal physiological events of puberty. As a result, the vocal range of prepubescence (shared by both sexes) is largely retained, and the voice develops into adulthood in a unique way. As the castrato’s body grew, his lack of testosterone meant that his epiphyses (bone-joints) did not harden in the normal manner. Thus the limbs of the castrati often grew unusually long, as did the bones of their ribs. This, combined with intensive training, gave them unrivalled lung-power and breath capacity. Operating through small, child-sized vocal cords, their voices were also extraordinarily flexible, and quite different from the equivalent adult female voice, as well as higher vocal ranges of the uncastrated adult male.
I guess this is basically saying that castratos are bros who had their peens chopped off so that they could have high voices, then the didn’t go through puberty, or something.
I am not sure if we should support ‘castrato indie music.’ I feel like it is sending the wrong message about ‘being alt.’ Like you have to do something extreme just to get attention. Some people get body piercings, and other ppl get tattoos, but I don’t think that there is ever a reason to mutilate your body just to achieve an aesthetic. I am worried that parents are going to ‘castratofy’ their children so that they have a better chance of ‘making it’ in the indie landscape.
Wonder how music would be different if some of my fave indie lead singers didn’t have peens.
We really need 2 take a stand, and stop glorifying this horrible trend of castration.
Worried abt kids from Iceland.
h8 trends that harm society, kinda like ‘huffing.’
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FCK YEA
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//////////Reply by James
//////////Posted July 9th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
@Dickrider,
bored with hipsterrunoff,
gonna start my own site soon,
feel like it tries to be relevant to too many age groups / interests
let’s do this,
i’ll leave my e-mail to let you know i’m serious:
jf827504@ohio.edu
right on.
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guess what I just found on wikipedia
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Had this f0r agess
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you know what people need to do, people need to stop singing in them nasal voices. like that Decembrists guy. fuck him. but yeah society needs to stop with the castrating. it is not constructive.
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this turns me on YALL
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uggghhhh now i kno i’ll never succeed as indie musician cuz of these fucking ‘castratos’
way to not chop of my balls mom and dad, GOD, i hate them so much
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thats fucked dude
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micael jackson was a castrato, & he was mainstream
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the castratos will ‘never grow old’ like normal alt bros. removing balls is the new ‘fountain of youth.’
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is antony the johnson still relevent?
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feel like my parents probably failed to cut off my p33n/p33nutz on purpose because they wanted to see me fail. if only id been ‘xtracut’ as a child i could fit in better with the alts of 2day.
its like my parents dont even know me or know who id become.
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think they kept the peen, lost the balls. still craxy th0.
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//////////Reply by mary
//////////Posted July 9th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
@hipster ballsoff, Thanks for setting the record straight a castrato is castrated meaning his testicles are cut off before puberty. A unic is the name for someone that has their “peen” cut off.
Good grief Charlie Brown!
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//////////Reply by carolina
//////////Posted July 10th, 2009 at 12:19 am
@mary, nope, ‘eunuch.’ not ‘unic.’ also, i believe eunuch is just another word for castrato. i think someone with his peen cut off is just referred to as that. peenless.
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//////////Reply by uh
//////////Posted July 10th, 2009 at 12:22 am
@carolina, she was going by phonetics, “give her a break”
//////////Reply by mary
//////////Posted July 10th, 2009 at 8:34 am
@carolina, thanks for the added info. should have googled it first.
bros you dont want this done my rents did it to me and i am a ‘hella big fan’ of barry the white. now what do i do with my life
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first
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garbage
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apparently (so my english teacher said) castratos were like rock stars in the olden days and had the best sex lives since they can’t impregnates womans…. being a woman myself, maybe indie castratos aren’t all that bad?
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//////////Reply by yooooooooooooooo
//////////Posted July 9th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
@hipsterberthcontrol, people without testes tend to have little to no sex drive due to having scarce amounts of testosterone, so I doubt they have had good sex lives.
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the only prob w/ the Castratos is that they uncontrollably urin8 out their mouths @ random_times
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//////////Reply by bamboomz
//////////Posted July 9th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
@chorles, laugh
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0uCh via balls, or lack there of.
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they are t0tally cutting edge
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heard the song about the a couple of blog years ago, then saw the gorilla bears’ blog a blog year ago and wiki’ed castrato, then read this.
h8/<3 u.
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Carles, please. Alex is from America. PLEASE GET A BLOG FACT CHECKER.
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this entry made me puke in my mouth…gross!
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fact checker…. not so much for this band… but peep this… all yall dig http://www.myspace.com/stomachermusic
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this is the funniest post / comment thread i’ve read in a while
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so youre telling me ttthat boy whos bein fixed by beardefiles hasnt started puberty
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Think this guy needs to become a castrato too:
http://www.1man1jar.com/
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You are either really smart and funny or the stupidest person on the planet.
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