I don’t get Ska hatred. It’s fast, punky dance music for alternative clubs, you have to go out of your way to be exposed to it. It’s not like its being continually replayed on “Billboard’s top 20 hits” radio stations.
Eh, kids shows are full of Ska, which makes total sense because it is impossible not to feel happy and excited when you hear it.
So if you have kids, you’re probably exposed to more Ska music than you realize.
When do these kids start watching these shows and what shows are they? I’m asking my 1 yr old, but she won’t give me an answer lol.
The ska band The Aquabats had a kid’s show in 2012-2014. Not sure about what age their audience is/was. I was actually into them when I was in high school before they got a show. Their music is really goofy and fun.
Edit: Oh wait, are you trying to avoid it?? 😂
I like both of these things. Judge away.
Ten year sentence for being fuckin’ rad as shit.
Some people love it, some hate, but most don’t really have an opinion?
Damn maybe I should try pineapple on pizza then
The best way I’ve ever heard third wave ska described was something like “the music that plays when your mom tells you she just made you and your friends mozzarella sticks”
Ska defines who I am as a person and I will never turn my back on Ska! Hup!
Wait… there are people who hate ska?
Why? For that matter, how? What’s to hate?
Granted, I’m GenX, so my concept of ska is rooted in the 80s, but I can’t imagine that it’s changed much since then.
Wait a minute… is this one of those deals where it’s trendy in some peer group to broadcast a hatred for something? Like anyone who wants to hang with the cool kids has to verify that they too hate ska?
Which would be sort of like pineapple on pizza now that I think about it, so might well be the whole point here…
For the record, I actually like ska., But as Propaghandi said:
Ska sucks
Ska revival isn’t cool you stupid fuck
The bands are only in it for the bucks
And if you don’t believe me you’re a schmuck
But the trend will die out with any luck
Sounds like adolescent edginess to me.
Probably a bit of that, a bit of friendly taking the shit out of other bands, and a bit of a song taken too seriously by both punk and ska fans. And remember, the song Ska Sucks is a ska song.
Heading to The Buffalo Ska fest today and we were talking about what to get for dinner. It is decided now.
Madness!
One step beyond
Although pineapple isn’t my go to for pizza toppings, I always feel those who make comments like this have never actually tried it 🤷
OP likes ska and pineapple on pizza.
In High school I had a crush on a girl that loved ska.
I had to pretend to love ska in order to share headphones with her on the bus…
So, in regards to that genre of music, you had to… pick it up?
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I admittedly know nothing about Ska, and music genres more generally, and whatever little searching I did upon reading this post have given me nothing that I can digest.
However, I’ve read a discussion about hate for ska coming from cultural appropriation and being liked by teenage boys. Can someone walk me through this?
Ska is simple, fun music that cares little for anything other than being fun, and is often gleefully immature. As such, teenage boys like it and pretentious music snobs love to look down their noses at it. Ska bands are aware of this fact and tend to lean into it, creating a self-aware and often self-parodying genre. It can be argued that it’s not “good” music. But it is, without a doubt, fun and high energy music and a live ska show is a blast.
As far as cultural appropriation goes, nobody who matters cares, as all music is a collaborative effort that builds off of previous works. Music belongs to the world, and gatekeeping it as belonging to any particular culture is ridiculous. Ska in particular is a genre that loves to do covers, and often the sillier the better.
Thank you. To be quite honest, I’ve had a roommate once who loved reggae and ska, and even though I don’t know the names of the songs nor the artists, I kinda like the entire vibe of it. Not that I’d want to listen to it all day though, but a bit of it in a day’s listening makes my day a bit brighter, if that even makes sense.
I might have been guilty of wrongfully associating ska with reggae though, and to be fair, I couldn’t even distinguish one from the other.
The best way I can describe it is that reggae is a walking beat, rocksteady is a jogging beat, and ska is a running beat.
(I like pineapple on pizza and ska)
Whoa! Dude, lol! Now I kinda want to hear reggae sped up to a ska-like BPM, and ska slowed down to a relaxing reggae-like BPM.
Listen to “Overcome (the Recapitulation)” by RX Bandits, may scratch that itch.
Ska actually predates the Hawaiian pizza so thos should be the other way around.
But pizza predates Ska and pineapples predates music.
Edit: now that I think about, I don’t know if any of that is true.
