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Is blood supposed to be gushing from my ears like that? Man that was terrible, if I ever need to torture someone I'll just make them listen to that song.
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Has Simon said anything about "Friday" yet? If he hasn't we must track him down and record every insult he has for the song.
I don't know, I think even the great Mr Cowell would be speechless from that pile of dross
Unfortunately I cant find anything about him seeing this, maybe he is writing a long list of insults for it, then throwing it away because none of them can describe this horrible thing labeled "music".
I have to admit when rebecca black mentioned "gotta get up and have a bowl" i was thinking that's a bit strange , a cleancut pop star like that having a bowl and then ..."have my cereal" ....oooooh that kind of bowl. I am no longer shocked and appalled at her drug usage.
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It's a pretty darn funny line-by-line deconstruction of the video, though. So check it out if you're not someplace where a swear or two on the screen is a problem.
SilverMK2 wrote:I would imagine pretty much any rap or hip hop video would have to be a contender for this title.
Oh, wait, you said "music" video... sorry, forgot that isn't actually music
There's some good rap and hip-hop out there. I'm not a big fan of the genres, but there's some decent stuff. I'm a huge fan of Madworld's soundtrack.
There's tonnes of great music being made today, you just got to look for it. Every single generation had a tonne of really crappy music. For every Cure or Talking Heads, there are going to be a hundred Abbas and Poisons. People only remember the good stuff, but there's a tonne of trash. It's not like King Crimson or Pink Floyd were ever chart toppers.
Even in the case of artists with mainstream appeal, it's rarely their best albums with the most mainstream appeal. David Bowie's Berlin Trilogy may be some of the finest music to ever come out of the 70's, it was some of his most commercially unsuccessful of the decade as well.
30 years from now, it'll be the cult artists like Regina Spektor or Elbow who will still have a following, while the majority of the bubblegum pop crap will be largely forgotten, and people will be reminiscing about how our generation's music was so much better than that generation's.
Fafnir wrote:Every single generation had a tonne of really crappy music... Poisons.
Heresy!
People only remember the good stuff
Entirely correct. I love "older" music from the 70's and 80's, but looking at all the crud that was put out then really makes you realise that the "good" stuff was very much a minority.
But Justin Beiber is a plauge that is infesting the world and needs to be stopped. Please tell me i am not the only one whos ears bleed when they hear him.
The kid is talented, but his music is crap (understandably, that's part of what makes it popular), but it's no worse than a lot of the crap from a long time back. Hell, even some of the Beatle's early stuff is on a comparable level (yes, they had good harmonies, we get it, but a lot of their early stuff was on the same level of teeny-bopper crap as Beiber's is today).
Give him a bit of time. His popularity will eventually fade with his youthful image, and he'll either rise to the occasion and produce some legitimately good music or fade away into obscurity. With a little maturity and the removal of corporate interests, he has the potential to be good, assuming all the fame he's been exposed to now doesn't wreck him when his bubble pops.
Fafnir wrote:The kid is talented, but his music is crap (understandably, that's part of what makes it popular), but it's no worse than a lot of the crap from a long time back. Hell, even some of the Beatle's early stuff is on a comparable level (yes, they had good harmonies, we get it, but a lot of their early stuff was on the same level of teeny-bopper crap as Beiber's is today).
WTF dude you are way off comparing the bettles to Justin Beiber bad bad call
Fafnir wrote:The kid is talented, but his music is crap (understandably, that's part of what makes it popular), but it's no worse than a lot of the crap from a long time back. Hell, even some of the Beatle's early stuff is on a comparable level (yes, they had good harmonies, we get it, but a lot of their early stuff was on the same level of teeny-bopper crap as Beiber's is today).
WTF dude you are way off comparing the bettles to Justin Beiber bad bad call
Yes, I am. And I'm completely serious. Despite their venerated status, the Beatles started out as the same teeny-bopper trash as any other pop sensation. It wasn't until they started to move away from that sound (and the drugs... oh man, the drugs) that they started to become something actually worth listening to.
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Luco wrote:Its all meaningless if the music isn't... musical. Monotone is a lecture, not a song.
Monotone has its place in music. You're just not looking at the right music.
As a whole that isn't music to me. Its someone talking over background music. Not a fan, sorry.
"Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily."
—David Byrne
Here, try this on for size. Not quite so monotone, but I swear, if you don't want to get up and move to this, you have no soul.
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@Fafnir - That semiotic analysis of the video you posted is pretty funny, if a bit ham-fisted. It's a magnificent troll. Where did you find it?
On that subject, I've attended lectures by a guy who wrote a book (literally:http://www.tagg.org/mmmsp/fernando.html) on the semiology of 'Fernando' by Abba. Who are awesome, by the way! Such analysis is genuinely very interesting, though one must be careful not to ascribe any intentionality to any of the implicit symbolism - that's a mistake the dude (?) who analysed the video made by claiming that it was a work of 'genius'. I could perform a similar analysis on 'Saturday Night' by Whigfield (godawful dross) and make it sound like era-defining art, if I had the time (and inclination), but it would be a mistake to make a value judgment on the piece based on that. Like, a very basic error.
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Albatross wrote:@Fafnir - That semiotic analysis of the video you posted is pretty funny, if a bit ham-fisted. It's a magnificent troll. Where did you find it?
All things are given birth and then go to die on 4chan.
I also disagree about the Beatles, but I can't be bothered getting into it!
Yes, I am. And I'm completely serious. Despite their venerated status, the Beatles started out as the same teeny-bopper trash as any other pop sensation. It wasn't until they started to move away from that sound (and the drugs... oh man, the drugs) that they started to become something actually worth listening to.
What a load of i guess when your country can only produce the likes of beiber and nickleback you would slander great musicians like the beetles.
Steu wrote:What a load of i guess when your country can only produce the likes of beiber and nickleback you would slander great musicians like the beetles.
Have you ever listened to any of the early Beatles stuff? It was all quite "poppy", rather mainstream and quite musically un-interesting. It was only when they started getting bigger and more well known that they were able to go out and do anything a bit more interesting.
Nope Fafnir is correct Beatles were a boy band when they first broke into the charts. Unlike most boy bands however they didn't get replaced by the next new thing but creatively evolved into something worth bothering about.
Their early years were no different from much of the other bands of the time. Let's not get partisan about popular music Steu , we have our fair share of pish too and the USA has its fair share of genius.
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Hey right i not complaining about the fact of the music when they first came on the scean because lets face it the 60s music variation was not as vast as t is today. It was a different style of life with a smaller music genre to pick from. But nowadays we have a vast genre range to pick from and that is due to the beatles they are one of the bands if not the first to change the whole music scean for the world. They were the first band to write their own songs rather than have stuff shoved in front of them and told to sing.
And im not saying the USA has not produced many great artists becasue they have it was more directed at Canada.
And yes SilverMK2 i have listene to their early stuff i proberbly own every beatles ablum.
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i guess when your country can only produce the likes of beiber and nickleback you would slander great musicians like the beetles.