Pop’s Barbarians

Jonathan Gold’s March 28 article “Fun With Death Metal at Palace” reflects the re-barbarization of America. When I read an accolade of such an abhorrent form of popular music, I cringe and feel angered and, oh, so sad!

To extol the wonders of such negative, sick and destructive forces expressed by such “musical” groups as Overkill and Violence does a grave disservice to our society, because it celebrates our degeneration and barbarity.

Where once our pop music was a celebration of love, hope, wholesome pleasures or sensitive blues, we now are expected to find our fun in the crassness, crudity, vulgarity and violence as expressed by such bands.

ELAINE LIVESEY-FASSEL, Los Angeles