It's an anti-rape song but I wouldn't say it's mocking toxic masculinity.
Why did critics hate STP
Jeremiah Bailey
Nolan Perez
Nah just someone who was around back then actually liked interesting music.
Brayden Thomas
Are you kidding? Show me one one good review of them from that era. They were a joke. Yeah they sold a lot of records, but so did Creed.
Maybe people were a tad too hard on them, and they did eventually make an album that wasn't totally embarrassing (Tiny Music), but was they were kinda shit.
Alexander Hall
>Nah just someone who was around back then actually liked interesting music
Jonathan Cook
How fucking embarrassing. STP released their demo before Pearl Jam was a band.
Jack Miller
there were lots of good reviews
Core was released to mixed reviews, not universally hated.
pretty much every bad review copied the "trying to be Pearl Jam line" tho.
but somehow I NEVER saw Nickelback or Creed be accused of trying to copy Pearl Jam when both of those guys sounded like Eddie Vedder impersonators.
also Christgau hated Core....
Evan James
>also Christgau hated Core
He addressed the band's claim about STT being intended sarcastically but he didn't believe them.
Also this fucker thinks Born in the USA was the #1 album of 1984 and even claimed it's rock and roll. There's nothing resembling "rock" on there or Let It Be, his #2 album of that year.
Levi Martin
Ian Garcia
Christgau seems to be the type to think that if you play "macho" music, then you are probably a wife beating asshole
He is the same guy who mocked Jonathan Davis and said he wasn't abused after Davis said he was raped as a kid, if Davis played some "New Yorkan" style he would declare him brave or shit
Jeremiah Hughes
>He is the same guy who mocked Jonathan Davis and said he wasn't abused after Davis said he was raped as a kid
Bet he wouldn't pull that shit if it were a woman...