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"Fortunate Son" by Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969)

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"Fortunate Son" by Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969)

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This song highlights the frustrations that people had during the Vietnam war. A song in protest of the draft, it emphasizes the tensions of those who were drafted, being from poor and middle-class families versus those who were rich did not have to make the sacrifice of going to war. Creedence Clearwater Revival comments on the division of class in the song, and as well as then commenting on the political establishment in American during the war. Americans began to view elites and politicians as removed from a war they wanted, and then average Americans families were thrown into a combat they never signed up for in the first place. This evokes a sense that middle class Americans were being used as pawns, and thus protest was the only way to make their grievances heard.

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Even though support was reportedly high for the war (via the “silent majority” that Nixon spoke of) when the song came out, approval was wavering. Many songs in protest came out before "Fortunate Son" and continued after. The reason for why the Vietnam war needed to be fought was still questioned, even by the lead singer, John Fogerty. Fogerty was a Vietnam veteran who commented that he never heard a good reason why he was forced to fight, and a good explanation as to why numerous Americans sons were to die for a war that never impacted them or the way they were to live. President Nixon at the time sought to comment on protestors as “unpatriotic” which I find ironic since protesting is an American right. Nevertheless, artists expressing their protest and call for peace continued. Other notable songs that arose from this were “What Are you Fighting For?” (1963) by Phil Ochs, “Give Peace a Chance” (1969) by Plastic Ono Band, “Imagine” (1971) by John Lennon, and countless others. People began to question the true purpose of the war, and why it was even America’s responsibility in the first place.

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- Took influence from metal

- Dark, ultra-violent, and horror-filled aesthetics and sound

- Imagery of death, psychosis, suicide, mutilation, of the occult, etc.

- Geto Boys, Three 6 Mafia, Bont Thugz n Harmony, and Gravediggaz (RZA from Wu-Tang Clan)

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- Public paid increasing attention to police brutality in the late 2010s
- Horrorcore rap's recent reemergence (2019-) has been defined by artists' deep-seated fears about police
- There has been a shift in the narrative of the horrorcore genre, where rappers are no longer the source of fear, but subjected to it under the state

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Pure Horrorcore Revival
- Daveed Diggs of clipping. (who played Lafayette and Jefferson in the original cast of Hamilton which is funny) shows us a reversal of John Carpenter’s (“The King of Horror” of Halloween, The Thing, & They Live’s fame) Assault on Precinct 13, where the protagonists are switched from the police to the gang. In the movie, heavily armed police officers ambush and kill six members of the gang, so the gang swore an oath of revenge. In the end, the gang members assault the precinct but are heroically killed at the hands of our leading officer
- The song however, focuses on the police’s ambush and murder of the gang members (referred to as family) as they are boarded up and keeping watch over their safe space. “Nothing is Safe” though, and the attack happens when the beat gets more intense around the chorus.
- Death, funeral, and supernatural imagery
- The beat is probably inspired by Halloween’s main theme and general sound, but with drums, dog barks, and crescendos around the chorus
- The album it’s on (There Existed an Addiction to Blood, 2019) has a counterpart album (Visions of Bodies Being Burned) that dropped last month, and it has countless examples of horrorcore imagery (wytchboards, hauntings, cannibalism, etc.) within every song, beat, and interlude. Their covers are, respectively, wooden stakes and teeth arranged over a black background
- "Blood of the Fang" shows similar sentiment

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“Pig Feet” (feat. Kamasi Washington, et al.) by Terrence Martin & Denzel Curry (2020)

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“Pig Feet” (feat. Kamasi Washington, et al.) by Terrence Martin & Denzel Curry (2020)

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Horrorcore Influenced
- Opens with gunshots, police sirens, a 911 call, and a woman screaming “they shot him they shot him, oh my god he didn’t have a gun” all playing over each other
- Kamasi Washington’s saxophone cries and wails over the purring bass notes and heavy drums
- Song & Video is explicitly about police brutality and the struggles of being black in America
- References to crucifixion, dead cats, being stuck in VR dreams, baptism in blood, alchemy, visions, and horoscopes
- Police and the state are the sources of fear, causing the pain experienced by the community
- Released June 1st, 2020 in the wake of the murder of George Floyd & subsequent protests

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Denzel Curry & Terrace Martin - PIG FEET ft.  Daylyt, Kamasi Washington, & G Perico (Official Video)