why has a polka dot ruined my entire being

Each of the lyrics comes from an old-time hickory song for fiddles, and is a lyric from that corresponding song.

"Fire on the Mountain" --> "Fire on the Mountain, run boys run"

Fire On The Mountain - Fiddle Player POV

"The House of the Rising Sun" --> "The Devil's in the house of the rising sun"

House of the Rising Sun

"Ida Red" --> "Chicken in the bread pan peckin' out dough"

Ida Red - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

"Granny Will Your Dog Bite" --> "Granny does your dog bite? 'No child, no'."

FTC #149 Granny Will Your Dog Bite

And for your furthered education, The Mountain Whipporwill.

in a time before things like radios and record players, every time you heard music was because there was somebody in the room with you playing an instrument. and many, many, many social events involved dancing, which requires music. so, if you're planning any kind of gathering in the american south or appalachia, you need to find a fiddler. and the fiddler's job is to play music that everybody knows and likes and can dance to.

the mistake The Devil makes in his bet with Johnny is that he misinterprets the contest as being about technical ability, so he has this big flashy song. he plays fast and impressively with a band of demons playing unfamiliar instruments in unfamiliar rhythms. he's definitely more skilled at playing than Johnny, and thinks he has it in the bag.

allied myself with the queen and have decided to join her court. she thinks that my laws are a bit too restrictive but we're working on it (no uncles named claudius allowed to live, no more marriages, and no more denmark. we're going to just burn it and start over). she is going to work on getting shakespeare to change the ending of my story

allied myself with the queen and have decided to join her court. she thinks that my laws are a bit too restrictive but we're working on it (no uncles named claudius allowed to live, no more marriages, and no more denmark. we're going to just burn it and start over). she is going to work on getting shakespeare to change the ending of my story

Because it's not like you had to pay them, so once your family owned someone, they owned them and their descendants indefinitely. Could you pay and eventually free em- sure! You could also send them anywhere you want for any labor you want, could have an enslaved woman bred for more children, or maybe save up and buy new slaves and sell the old. Like cattle (thus, chattel slavery).

So it's interesting that many people go "oh well it's not like my family owned slaves!" Because like, one, how do you know that? Have you ever actually asked your grandmas about their grandmas? How many of your family members grew up with mammies? Have you ever asked? I wonder how many people have actually done the digging for the truth (or was it easier to just benefit). Because I've talked to my grandma, who picked cotton in the sea islands. She had to have been doing that for someone in the 1930s and 40s!

have you ever considered that if it sounds unbelievable, then it shouldn't be believed? because nobody—and i mean NOBODY—is arguing that sinners is (1) a flawless movie, (2) that you're racist for not liking it, or that you have an obligation to like it, or (3) that it deserved "every oscar" (which it does, but we all know its patently unrealistic and is, again, unbelievable.)

we are still reeling from the stars of this same movie getting called the n word by a white person at another events show, and having the entire internet browbeat us about how we hate disabled people and know nothing about disability because we didn't exhibit the most nuanced, regulated response to racial trauma; all as a massive chess play by BAFTA to deliberately stoke ratings from us.

we're still having racist circlejerks on this website about how the black music tradition is a valid tradition and shouldn't be pigeonholed into the "sex, drugs, money, and gangs" genre by moral nitpickers with double standards or white people with an almost fetishistic, VAMPIRIC attachment to our art and its purposes.

for fucksakes, one of the first articles ever written about this movie on its OPENING WEEKS was variety spitballing about how it "wasn't gonna be a box office hit" because it was an "original genre film" and not the 17th "the conjuring" installation huffing its own ectoplasmic fume and rot. several movies released at around the same time that were original genre films. . . and NONE of them had articles written about how they weren't "pulling their weight."

everything regarding this movie's release and propagation on a systemic level was DESIGNED for it to fail. at every step of the way were you colonial vultures egging this movie on to suffer despite how masterful and attentive its execution was. you have people on this website fangirling over remmicKKK and giving black people their dumb nerdy fandom spiel about how personal gratification is above all even if it's tone-deaf and racist and just artistically god awful.