“La recessione ci ha seguito, ci ha segnato”: i bambini del boom e del busto

Cringe.

I just love that CMAT might have killed Bertie’s (tbc) presidential campaign!

I hear her next song is about how she found rationing so tough during the war.

Every so often I read comments in this sub and am always surprised how toxic and negative it is.

I really like CMAT, and from what I’ve heard, the song is great. I understand that the recession was really hard for people.

For me though, the debate about this song solidified the difference between my experience growing up in poverty and the experience of those who in contrast, grew up feeling the effects of the recession.

The stark fact of the matter is, my family were kind of stuck in a perpetual state of poverty, at risk of eviction from our corporation housing, one parent struggling with mental health issues and the other struggling with addiction, so the recession didn’t hit as hard for us as for others. Both my parents worked but minimum wage, in a house were alcoholism was a problem, meant they may as well not have worked. It was the norm to go to bed feeling pangs of hunger, or being able to see our breath in bed because the house was so cold, and so on. I don’t blame either of my parents. They had real struggles, but they were only human. They both tried their best and they loved us very much. I’m just struck by how ironically, because we were already dirt poor, we weren’t as badly impacted, or at least that’s my feeling on it now. Granted, I was a teenager at the time and may not have been aware of everything, but that’s my recollection of it.

In any case, those who were responsible for the decisions that led this country to ruin should hang their heads in shame.

Where’s our ‘2008-2013 Angela’s Ashes’?

Wow – that really hits hard. I was in college around 2001, so the “locked out generation” really came just after me, I guess. I think a lot of the political nuance, the left-of-centre thinking, and the proud embrace of an Irish subaltern identity that we see in so many of our new crop of music artists today is absolutely rooted in the darkness of growing up under the cloud of that recession. The crash was corporate Ireland’s promise laid bare for all to see. You’d be none too interested in the Sean Gallaghers or Berties after your childhood was wallpapered with that misery.

Sure you might not like her voice, singing or the music genre but what’s the problem with the song’s message? It’s her experience of growing up during the recession.