NOOZ VIEWS: CU Nooz Editorial Board Endorses Folk/Bluegrass Category on Slope Day Survey

The first Slope Day Survey dropped this week, kicking off months of deliberation to decide who Cornell will pay for students to black out and not see.

Past years have featured a vast array of artists with one song you kind of know, most of which produce pop, rap, or EDM music. The genres of selected artists are chosen by the student body in the first Slope Day Survey.

The Editorial Board of CU Nooz passionately endorses the underrepresented genre of folk/bluegrass on this year’s survey. Slope Day is about celebrating the music we love. There is nothing more universal than the sweet sweet sound of bluegrass. 

“The student body is tired of hearing house music in broad daylight,” said a student from the Klezmer Ensemble. “The only place I want to hear ‘unz unz unz’ is in the comfort of a k-hole in a basement at 3am.”

The push for bluegrass has been echoed by many registered campus groups at Cornell, namely CU Nooz and the Klezmer Ensemble and that’s actually all of them. 

We strongly urge students to consider what they’re missing out on by excluding folk from their selections. Bluegrass is a vast musical genre that ranges from Stevie Nicks’s deepest cuts to stuff a guy with a mandolin might play.

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