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Punk-Urbanismo En El American Idiot De Green Bifurcaciones bifurcaciones LTDA [email protected] ISSN (Versión impresa): ISSN (Versión en línea): 0718-1132 CHILE 2005 Diego Campos RESEÑA DE "PUNK-URBANISMO EN EL AMERICAN IDIOT" DE GREEN DAY Bifurcaciones, otoño, número 002 bifurcaciones LTDA Santiago, Chile Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México Punk-urbanismo en el American Idiot rock y qué no lo es, o qué es punk-rock y qué de Green Day no lo es. por Diego Campos* Pero al menos sí sabemos qué es American Idiot: es el séptimo disco de estudio de Green Un nuevo estilo de baile Day. Formada en Berkeley a comienzos de los ochenta por el mentado B.J. Armstrong y el En alguna entrevista, Billie Joe Armstrong, bajista Mike Dirnt, amigos de infancia a vocalista, guitarrista y principal letrista de quienes se uniría más tarde el baterista Tre Green Day, se refirió a American Idiot como Cool, la agrupación siguió todos y cada uno de “una ópera punk rock”. A primera vista, el los pasos que conducen desde la cochera calificativo podría parecer un tanto exagerado – convertida en sala de ensayo a las giras pretencioso incluso-, tratándose el punk rock mundiales, pasando por una larga temporada de un género que históricamente se ha en la escena under de la Costa Este, algunos EPs caracterizado por una militante simpleza, tanto editados independientemente o por sellos en música como en textos. Sin embargo, a pequeños, y un golpe de suerte de la mano de poco más de 30 años de su nacimiento, bien un tercer disco, Dookie (1994). El resto es podríamos esperar que esta criatura, parida de historia conocida: rotativos en MTV, mala manera en las postrimerías de los “Treinta nominaciones a los Grammy, actuaciones a Gloriosos”, tuviese algo novedoso que decir. Si beneficio de los desharrapados del mundo y acabada ya la larga y tortuosa agonía del Estado tres treintañeros convertidos en de Bienestar sigue habiendo hordas de chicos multimillonarios a los 22. que persisten en formar bandas, indiferentes al hecho de casi no saber tocar, quizá entonces La prestigiosa Newsweek se refirió a American valga la pena detenerse un momento y atender Idiot en los siguientes términos: “Una ópera a lo que puedan estar diciendo, mascullando o punk-rock cuyas 19 canciones, dos de las cuales escupiendo (quizá cantando): una familiar duran más de nueve minutos, cuentan la banda sonora para otra época, otras gentes, historia de un chico suburbano moviéndose otras ciudades, los mismos problemas. torpemente hacia la adultez y lidiando con la guerra, una nación controlada por los media, sus ¿”Ópera punk-rock”, entonces? Puede ser, padres divorciados, el narcotraficante del barrio aunque para muchos el punk haya muerto e incluso el 7-Eleven local”. Todos están allí: el (junto con el rock mismo), y aunque para patético Jesús de Suburbia, su nefasto amigo muchos Green Day no sea más que punk-pop San Jimmy y una chica extraordinaria llamada apto sólo para teenagers comodones y Whatsername, cuyas historias entrelazadas despreocupados. ¿Acaso el rock no había sido sustituyen inapelablemente el no future rabioso enterrado ya a mediados de los setenta, de los setenta por un enervante I don’t care (ya lo ajusticiado por las extensas y virtuosas habían hecho antes los Ramones, es cierto, introspecciones progresivas? ¿Acaso Sex Pistols pero su indiferencia generalizada rezumaba más fue alguna vez otra cosa que el mejor negocio vitalidad que catatónica postración). de Malcom McLaren, como lo fueron antes los Beatles para Brian Epstein, y aún antes Elvis Pero el hecho mismo no deja de ser para el Coronel? El beneficio de la duda, impresionante: un disco de 19 temas, de casi entonces, al menos para seguir adelante con una hora de duración. Lo es al menos estas reflexiones; yo escribiendo, ustedes tratándose de una banda que nunca fue más leyendo. En última instancia, siempre se puede allá de los tres acordes, los tres minutos, los argumentar que este tipo de polémicas son tres instrumentos y una temática de escaso consustanciales a la historia del rock, aunque ya interés para los mayores de 17 años. La ni siquiera podamos definir con claridad qué es también prestigiosa Time escribió, a propósito de las siete nominaciones a los Grammy obtenidas por el disco: “La irrupción de Green * Sociólogo PUC y editor revista bifurcaciones. E- Day como artistas ha aturdido la industria de la mail: [email protected] núm. 2, otoño 2005 www.bifurcaciones.cl diego campos punk-urbanismo en american idiot música; imaginen Hollywood el día después obedece gustoso a las geografías post- que los hermanos Farrelly ganasen [el Oscar a] modernas del capitalismo tardío. Punk- la Mejor Película y se harán una idea”. urbanismo según Green Day; ¿cuán distinto sería si los hijos de Mike Davis formaran una Geografías post-modernas banda? Punk-urbanismo, entonces, de la alienación suburbana, de almas rotas en una La revista Time. Los Grammy. La industria ciudad de cuarzo fragmentada, fracturada, de la música. Hollywood, los hermanos Farrelly fractalizada: y los premios Oscar. ¿Qué sigue luego? ¿El día de acción de gracias y la tarta de manzana? Tal vez “I’m the son of rage and love/ The Jesus of sí, pero no necesariamente. Es precisamente el Suburbia/ From the Bible of “none of the etnocentrismo exacerbado que caracteriza la above”/ On a steady diet of soda pop and música de Green Day, y que se radicaliza de Ritalin/ No one ever died for my sins in hell/ manera brillante en American Idiot, lo que As far as I can tell/ At least the ones I got away permite a estos punk-rockers en su crisis de with” (Jesus of Suburbia)3. madurez hundirse hasta el cuello en el corazón gangrenado de la América urbana post Esto ya lo hemos visto antes; en Beavis & noventas, y regresar luego para contarnos lo Butthead, en las distopias cinematográficas de que allí vieron: los ochenta y noventa, en las fotografías de Camilo José Vergara, en las insistentes “Here they come marching down the advertencias de Harvey y del mismo Davis: el street/ Like a desperation murmur of a heart desplome del sueño americano en un landscape beat/ Coming back from the edge of town/ donde los únicos hitos reconocibles son la Underneath they feet, the time has come/ And autopista y el centro comercial: it’s going nowhere [...]/ We’re coming home again”1. “At the center of the earth in the parking lot of the 7-11 where I was taught/ The motto Pero, ¿qué hay más allá de las notas sueltas was just a lie/ [...]/ I read the graffiti in the de un evangelio impresionista como el que bathroom stall/ Like the holy scriptures in a proponen Armstrong y asociados? En lo que a shopping mall/ And so it seemed to confess” nosotros concierne, y siguiendo a Wirth, (City of the damned)4. tenemos que el urbanismo es “el complejo de rasgos que componen el modo característico de Inevitable preguntarse, ahora: si los sueños la vida en las ciudades”, un modo de vida de la razón producen monstruos, ¿con qué “determinado por las singulares características clase de personaje podemos esperar de la ciudad en tanto entidad material – encontrarnos aquí? Indudablemente, con específicamente su tamaño, su densidad y su algunos que William Levitt nunca esperó heterogeneidad”2. Forzando un poco el poblaran su paraíso: argumento, podríamos llegar a decir que American Idiot es expresión de un particular “St. Jimmy’s coming down across the urbanismo, un punk-urbanismo doméstico que alleyway/ Upon the boulevard like a zip gun on 1 “Aquí vienen, marchando por la calle/ Como el 3 “Soy el hijo de la rabia y el amor/ El Jesús de murmullo desesperado de un corazón latiendo / Suburbia/ De la Biblia de “ninguna de las Viniendo desde el borde la ciudad/ Bajo sus pies, el anteriores”/ En una dieta permanente de gaseosa y tiempo ha llegado/ Y no conduce a ninguna parte/ ritalín/ Nadie murió por mis pecados en el [...]/ Estamos llegando a casa nuevamente”. infierno/ Hasta donde puedo decir/ Al menos 2 Además del artículo de Louis Wirth “El urbanismo aquellos de los cuales me alejé”. como modo de vida”, publicado en este número de 4 “En el centro de la tierra, en el estacionamiento bifurcaciones, recomendamos también la revisión del 7-Eleven donde fui educado/ La consigna era crítica de dicha obra y de su autor que dibuja sólo una mentira/ [...]/ Leo el graffitti en la caseta Manuel Tironi en “Del campo a la ciudad al campo del baño/ Como sagradas escrituras en un centro (y a la ciudad de vuelta”. comercial/ Y así parecía confesarlo”. 2 diego campos punk-urbanismo en american idiot parade/ Light of a silhouette, he’s house with unlocked doors/ And I’m fucking insubordinate/ Coming at you on the count of lazy” (Longview)8. 1, 2, 3, 4/ [...]/I am the son of a bitch and Edgar Allan Poe/ Raise in the city under a halo Al menos, en ese entonces aún existía of lights/ The product of war and fear that alguna esperanza, encarnada en los vetustos we’ve been victimized” (St. Jimmy)5. edificios de ladrillo con escalera de incendios y estanque de agua que pueblan el imaginario de Lejos del glamour de la gentrification y del new las inner cities estadounidenses. Tal vez sólo allí, urbanism, lejos también del smart growth y del junto a Arnold y sus amigos, fuera posible community sense tan caro a los ojos de nuestros encontrar alguna chispa del fuego que buenos vecinos del norte, por un momento el encandiló a Tocqueville, que sedujo a Jacobs y punk-urbanismo de Green Day hace causa que decepcionó a Sennett: común con los panfletos de Michael Moore.
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