Cry baby!

"...Spitting their words their words or notes headlong, they perfected an aesthetic of imperfection. For this they earned a mixture of public condemnation and discipleship. The word bebopper became a code word for juvenile delinquents..."

    This reminds me of the movie Cry Baby, starring Johnny Depp. All about the greasers and the squares. It totally portrays these greasers, juvenile delinquents, doing just plain bad. Making out on a school night, racing fast cars etc...While the squares were at a community function, saving the world one kid at a time!

        At one point in the movie Johnny's sister says " I am so glad I am knocked up, wish I were having triplets." It is openly laughing at the sort of  behavior the beats are sending as a message. While the squares were off doing charitable functions, which were wildly over done portraying those who found the "beat" like behavior immoral.

    Then

    There is just something so good about being bad. The beats allowed the unpolished part of humanity to step forth. This sort of knitty-gritty, natural man, behavior. At one point Leland says "you don't have to worry about mistakes, because their consequences are off in the future....this develops into hip's fetish for failure and self destruction."

    When there is no immediate consequence for an action then why in the hell should anyone care?

    So it's breaking away from this sort of god fearing behavior that everyone during that time was accustomed to. This polite society behavior. Now we are talking raw and still bleeding. Ripping up the floor boards and unleashing the bugs that live beneath. It was a massive slap in the face calling out everyone in some form; letting out their dirty secret, addiction, obsession, etc... No more secrets, total exposure.

    I believe their form of art did have some amount of perfection to it. It perfected exposing the natural man, ripping away the false exterior, and painting the human man as he actually is. Not what he covers himself up to be. So really it all depends on your personal view as a person, is the picture more or less beautiful? It depends are you a greaser (beat) or a square?