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Steampunk has been part of the teenie/teen spectrum of fads for a while; at least as far as I am aware. Perhaps not as mainstream as plagues of pokeyourmon and dragonsballs, but still there.
Never listened to a Bieber song and won't today. My wife told me the other day he has been to the UK and one girl was so excited at the front that she was physically sick. I mean what's that all about?
SilverMK2 wrote:Steampunk has been part of the teenie/teen spectrum of fads for a while; at least as far as I am aware. Perhaps not as mainstream as plagues of pokeyourmon and dragonsballs, but still there.
I don't consider myself a fad to be honest...
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LoneLictor on thread about an ork choking the Emperor:
LoneLictor wrote: I like to imagine the Emperor kills so many Orks that he ends up half buried beneath a pile of corpses, with only his head sticking out. A lone grot stumbles across him, and starts choking him.
Then Horus comes across the lone grot, somehow managing to kill the Emperor, and punts it into space.
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corpsesarefun wrote:THE END IS COMING! A POPULAR PERFORMER FEATURED IN A VIDEO HEAVILY INSPIRED BY A GENRE I LIKE!
Calm down folks... A pop star did a video involving steampunk, so what? Did Michael Jackson forever kill zombies with thriller?
But corpses, zombies were already dead!
Prestor Jon wrote: Because children don't have any legal rights until they're adults. A minor is the responsiblity of the parent and has no legal rights except through his/her legal guardian or parent.
DarkTraveler777 wrote:Aside from the Arthur Christmas clips, that video looked extremely dated to me. Like some crap you'd see in the late 80's or early 90's.
Why the low production values, Bieber?
They obviously have the next crop of "talent" ready in the wings, so are carefully killing off Beiber's "career" to release his teenie fans for "the next big thing"...
biccat wrote:I don't understand why Bieber is so popular. That song is fething terrible, as with the rest of 'his' work.
Damn kids these days.
Well, that's the thing. It's not even BAD. I revel in bad music. I have Paula Abdul, the News, William Shatner, and I love every minute of it.
The kid's just mediocre. Not really evocative of ANY emotion, good or bad. I mean, he does appear to have actual 'talent', where 'talent' is measured by the ability to hold a note, carry a tune, and do that trilling thing with his voice that appears to be the only barrier to entry for mainstream music nowadays.
biccat wrote:I don't understand why Bieber is so popular. That song is fething terrible, as with the rest of 'his' work.
Damn kids these days.
Are you serious? It has nothing to do with 'These Days.' Pop music from every decade is almost universally terrible. Bieber is just par for the course.
daedalus wrote:
The kid's just mediocre. Not really evocative of ANY emotion, good or bad. I mean, he does appear to have actual 'talent', where 'talent' is measured by the ability to hold a note, carry a tune, and do that trilling thing with his voice that appears to be the only barrier to entry for mainstream music nowadays.
Not to mention that this song is really freaking heavy on the autotune. Something tells me puberty recently hit, and it's not happy.
Who knows though, he may be able to branch out and do his own thing once he gets older.
Howard A Treesong wrote:Never listened to a Bieber song and won't today. My wife told me the other day he has been to the UK and one girl was so excited at the front that she was physically sick. I mean what's that all about?
Nothing new here, Frank Sinatra, the Beatles, the Monkees, the Jackson 5, New Kids on the Blocks, Back Street Boys, and now Bieber...
There seems to just be a period in girls' lives where they have this powerful psychological need to worship something and for the last few decades the music industry has been there to meet it.
Anyone know if there's been any research on it? I mean if you have younger sisters (or daughters) you've seen this up close. It's beyond fandom, it's beyond a fad, it's like a physical need.
The more I think about it, the more I'm really torn, to be honest. I mean, this is going to make it acceptable to wear polarized goggles in public, but on the other hand, it's faux steampunk, so people are still going to look at me funny for my backpack mounted boiler.
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Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Howard A Treesong wrote:Never listened to a Bieber song and won't today. My wife told me the other day he has been to the UK and one girl was so excited at the front that she was physically sick. I mean what's that all about?
Nothing new here, Frank Sinatra, the Beatles, the Monkees, the Jackson 5, New Kids on the Blocks, Back Street Boys, and now Bieber...
There seems to just be a period in girls' lives where they have this powerful psychological need to worship something and for the last few decades the music industry has been there to meet it.
Anyone know if there's been any research on it? I mean if you have younger sisters (or daughters) you've seen this up close. It's beyond fandom, it's beyond a fad, it's like a physical need.
Of all the above mentioned though, Sinatra and the Beatles actually were actually musically talented. I mean, look at Sgt. Pepper's. Show me anything that Backstreet Boys did that was even remotely on par with that.
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Sgt. Pepper's and the later albums the Beatles released were done when they were given more freedom to do whatever they wanted, since everyone knew that it would sell so long as it had their faces on it. Their early work is the same generic pop that Beiber is responsible for. If they actually proposed Sgt. Pepper's in '63, they'd be laughed out of the studio.
And for the record, The Monkees, Jackson 5, New Kids, and Backstreet Boys are all terrible.
Pop sucked then, sucks now, and always will suck.
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