Poetry with Attitude

A friend has a picture of himself with a baseball cap and immediately he looks like a rap singer.

Then I got to thinking, when I hear rap it's very much poetry with attitude. I don't recall Dr Suess getting so angry with his rhymes. Maybe that was implied and maybe historically the anger faded.

Take Humpty, I'd be very cross. Yet we sung it as if we were tortured. After the TV Playschool version, Humpty lost it's appeal.

The last decade is filled with attitude in lyric. I still prefer the older days when you could say angry things with a nice tune. For example "then you have to spoil it all by saying something stupid like I love you". I can see how this happened.