I’m Too White For Metal: Hellsinger

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They say that white people dance to the lyrics while Black people dance to the beat - this poses a problem for me, a white girl, playing Metal: Hellsinger. You don’t unlock the vocals until you reach the x16 multiplier, which means most of the time I’m working off the beat. And let me get this straight, I’m not just ‘a white girl’. My most played artist is Taylor Swift, who has as much as the other top five (Miranda Lambert, Haim, Kacey Musgraves, and Phoebe Bridgers) combined. When you picture ‘white girl music taste (derogatory)’, you’re picturing me. And unfortunately I am simply too white for this game.

As the name implies, Metal: Hellsinger focuses on the metal genre. When you think of your typical metal fan, you probably picture a white person. Male, long hair, scraggly beard, tattoos everywhere, physically imposing but actually super sweet, that whole deal. All music is for everyone, but there are some genres with roots in Black culture, like rap, jazz, hip hop, and rhythm & blues. While Led Zeppelin, Elvis Presley, and other early rockers ripped off Black sounds, heavy metal is not a genre we typically consider white peoples to be outsiders in. The vast majority of artists featured on Metal: Hellsinger are white. And still I am too white for it.

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There are mods available for the game now, and I could replace the thrashing guitars with All Too Well, The Wire, or Kyoto, but would that help when I’m grooving to the lyrics, not Danielle Haim’s drumbeat? I might as well just listen to whatever song I want through my phone and blast away at random - that’s pretty much what I do know, only with the quiet screeches of an