I slightly hate the Gorillaz now, after finding out that Damon Albarn is the voice for 2D, I try my best when I listen to Gorillaz that it's 2D singing and not Damon BUT ITS SO FUCKING HARD!
Get Your Musical Complaints Off Your Chest
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It's called dialect.IcyEvils said:
If you were really the language snob you're trying to be then you'd appreciate that, although still not necessarily like it.
Even then he's hardly heavy on the slang; I can understand it and I live in a suburb of Norwich - hardly the back streets of London.
I've got a few.
I know some people who, for some reason or another that I cannot fathom, decide to switch songs after only about a minute (tops) of listening to it. This exercise drives me up the wall insane. It's annoying really. And I think it's annoying because that's not the way music is meant to be experienced! True, it would be very difficult to get through a longer album on a single sit through (especially with some of the bands and their 20+ minute songs), but this is just another example of an extreme. I worry that music is becoming more about simple hooks. Rather than telling a compelling story. Which brings me to
I think that a lot of lyrics are downright silly right now. Pick a song, any random song on the radio, and try to make sense of the story being told through the lyrics. In all likelyhood, you won't be able to make any sense of anything because there isn't much to go by on there, ya know? A lot of lyrics are lyrical in the same sense that a lot of teenagers write lyrical poetry.
I will say right away that there are a ton of talented artists producing musical poetry out there, and I respect them for it. Unfortunately, most of those people don't seem to be on popular radio. It seems to me, with my admittedly narrow experience (but before you critique me, remember that this is more of a slight against radio in middle America), that a lot of hip hop and rap is about putting out an image in words that is the most badass possible, and this image is usually at the cost of creating any meaningful stories. I do care that an artist has risen from poverty and become iconic; I don't give a shit that he now has a gold medallion that "feels like a midget" hanging around his neck. Get over yourself. I love spoken word poetry because it's often hip-hop influenced but has that extra bit of actually trying to tell a compelling story.
Lastly, Music as we know it IS NOT GOING TO DIE. That's silly. Music may have developed before speech (According to This is Your Brain on Music); it's not going to fade into nothingness and there will always be ways to find artists who produce music you want to hear. Although I'd love to bring my musical tastes to the world, I realize that I'd be the biggest hypocrit for doing such. Just because I like long songs that tell a story doesn't mean that other people do. In the end, it's about enjoying life, and I'd rather let other people enjoy life just as they let me enjoy mine.
Just don't make one of them DJ if we go on a road trip.
I know some people who, for some reason or another that I cannot fathom, decide to switch songs after only about a minute (tops) of listening to it. This exercise drives me up the wall insane. It's annoying really. And I think it's annoying because that's not the way music is meant to be experienced! True, it would be very difficult to get through a longer album on a single sit through (especially with some of the bands and their 20+ minute songs), but this is just another example of an extreme. I worry that music is becoming more about simple hooks. Rather than telling a compelling story. Which brings me to
I think that a lot of lyrics are downright silly right now. Pick a song, any random song on the radio, and try to make sense of the story being told through the lyrics. In all likelyhood, you won't be able to make any sense of anything because there isn't much to go by on there, ya know? A lot of lyrics are lyrical in the same sense that a lot of teenagers write lyrical poetry.
I have had the chance to be an editor of a poetry magazine, and I saw far too much lyric poetry. Poetry that complained about love lost, about wanting new love (one in a particulary disturbing format that seemed like a boyhood fantasy transcribed with rhyme - creepy), and views on religion that were parochial at best. I love music and poetry that tells a story. I believe that most music is taking its lyrics too literally and not even writing anything that's compelling or interesting. (Granted this is most; I'm not a music hating curmudgeon.) And my final point leads into a critique of musical poetry.
I will say right away that there are a ton of talented artists producing musical poetry out there, and I respect them for it. Unfortunately, most of those people don't seem to be on popular radio. It seems to me, with my admittedly narrow experience (but before you critique me, remember that this is more of a slight against radio in middle America), that a lot of hip hop and rap is about putting out an image in words that is the most badass possible, and this image is usually at the cost of creating any meaningful stories. I do care that an artist has risen from poverty and become iconic; I don't give a shit that he now has a gold medallion that "feels like a midget" hanging around his neck. Get over yourself. I love spoken word poetry because it's often hip-hop influenced but has that extra bit of actually trying to tell a compelling story.
Lastly, Music as we know it IS NOT GOING TO DIE. That's silly. Music may have developed before speech (According to This is Your Brain on Music); it's not going to fade into nothingness and there will always be ways to find artists who produce music you want to hear. Although I'd love to bring my musical tastes to the world, I realize that I'd be the biggest hypocrit for doing such. Just because I like long songs that tell a story doesn't mean that other people do. In the end, it's about enjoying life, and I'd rather let other people enjoy life just as they let me enjoy mine.
Just don't make one of them DJ if we go on a road trip.
Yeah they're first album kind of really sucks.MiracleOfSound said:
Black Parades a good one though. They're not as bad as people say, it's just their image among teenagers and the like.
Lady Gaga certailny didn't get that famous because of her music.
Also, I really don't like Justin Bieber.
Also, I really don't like Justin Bieber.
Just one clarification, country actually predates rock n roll a mite bit. Modern country however is pretty much glorified pop southern rock. But yeah, country's not really a subgenre of rock n roll.THEAFRONINJA said:I don't care how many people try to defend him because he's "just a kid", I think Justin Beiber is a complete tool.
Also, although this isn't about music strictly, so sorry if I shouldn't put it here, but I hate it when people say all rap is about "bitchez and drugz". BAD rap is about those things. There's a lot of good rap. And even if a lot of it is about hard life on 'the streets', so what if you can't relate to it? I can't relate to being a Jedi during an attempted Jedi genocide, but I love Star Wars. I can't relate to being a hard nut gangster, but I love Snatch and Pulp Fiction. I can't relate to being the coolest guy on Earth, but I love Samuel L. Jackson. I can't... well, you get the drift, I just don't think that "I can't relate to it" justifies a hatred of an entire genre. I'm not saying you HAVE to like it, just give a better reason?
Also:
Urrm... Rap is a sub-genre of Hip-Hop. Country is a sub-genre of Rock, and Pop is hard to define as a genre as it's only what's POPular at the time, i.e. a rock song could be pop, as could a rap song.mr_hi said:
However, I completely agree with your last two points.
nickelback is mainstream generic retard fodder, but I'm sure most agree with this. I'm sorry, but Megadeth is nowhere near the greatness the WAS Metallica. After the Black Album Metallica ceased to exist. I don't understand why hip-hop/R&B/Rap is so popular... Well, that's about it...
This actually brings me to my pet peeve at the moment, people judging a band or a musician by their fans. Believe me, I've stopped and seen myself doing this too from time to time.GamesB2 said:
MCR has actually put out some real cool rocknroll. Not even just on Black Parade. But god, some people will never ever give them the benefit of the doubt because of their fanbase.
I try and listen to 'good' rap and I enjoy some of it (Opposite of adults - Chiddy Bang for example) but most of the stuff that people say is better it still bores me or annoys me.Vrach said:
I respect proper rap as a musical style, I just generally dislike it, especially of the new bullshit. I will celebrate the day N-Dubz dies.
But yeah Public Enemy are quite good.
Lady Gaga, Christ do I hate her. Everyone compares her work to Legends Like Freddie Mercury, saying it's as good or superior. She isn't the worst artist ever though, I'll give her that much. Her work can even be called art with me laughing hysterically, but like all modern artists, she's a corporate sellout, and her newer songs sound like almost perfect retreds of the last. She isn't untalented either, but in todays world, any bit of talent is milked for every last peny. Just wish people would realise some 30 years ago music was art, and artists were not cash cows. Like today were people like Justin Bieber are grown from birth to make money for a decade and do nothing else. Heck the Jonas Brothers aren't even that popular anymore, they're yesterday's news, and they've and been around for what? 3.5 years?
Now if you'll excuse me, I have some Patrick Hernandez to listen to.
Edit: I think my avatar speaks for itself about my music tastes. I would have talked about crappy emo music, but I think someone else already beat me to it.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have some Patrick Hernandez to listen to.
Edit: I think my avatar speaks for itself about my music tastes. I would have talked about crappy emo music, but I think someone else already beat me to it.
I'm not trying to be a language snob. And I know about dialect, I f***ing hate my own (Northern Ireland). Its just the one thing about Dizzee Rascal that stands out most in my head- I mean, one of his top songs is 'Dance Wiv Me'. If he tried, maybe I wouldn't hate him so much.Woodsey said:
And I never said I couldn't understand it. I just said it was garbage.
Lady Gaga is fucking horrible. I don't care if she can sing or not, if she won't use that in her bloody songs then shes just another pop princess.
Fuck you Jerry Cantrell, the new Alice in Chains album sucked.
And I wasn't much of a fan of Biffy Clyros new album.
Fuck you Jerry Cantrell, the new Alice in Chains album sucked.
And I wasn't much of a fan of Biffy Clyros new album.
I actually heard someone say on a bus they're MCRs biggest fan and I just thought... Is that really something to be proud of?AgentNein said:
But more seriously I was never in the mainstream and if I found a band I found it myself.
I really like Nickelback because they have some really genuinely great songs.
Then I get other people saying they're overkilled and they hate them because of their image... I don't know what most of the bands I like look like and I don't particularly care.
If I enjoy the music I'll listen to it.
Yeah Jay-Z is ok with me, but i haven't heard rap from anyone else that sounds that good to me.JRShield said:
But i hate the woman that made the tik tok "song" Though i do love the parody of it
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1935457
I find Ke-dollar sign-ha to be unbelievably annoying and almost physically painful to listen to. As the Onion's A.V. club put it, 'This is what happens when we let a feral child be raised by a helium tank and a box of Fergie singles.'
I'm annoyed by the fact that angsty, gothic music is aimed mostly at white upper-middle class suburban teenagers who don't have much to be angsty about.
I think it's odd how radio stations always say things like 'The best rock music in the world!' Couldn't they just settle for 'pretty good music if you're into this sort of thing?'.
I'm annoyed by the fact that angsty, gothic music is aimed mostly at white upper-middle class suburban teenagers who don't have much to be angsty about.
I think it's odd how radio stations always say things like 'The best rock music in the world!' Couldn't they just settle for 'pretty good music if you're into this sort of thing?'.
Yeah, it's pretty cool. You can really trace things back to a mix between blues and hillbilly music (which is what country was actually called awhile ago), and those things created rocknroll and rockabilly. Rock and roll kept more of the blues influence, while rockabilly had more of the 'hilbilly' influence. Interesting stuff.THEAFRONINJA said:Heh, really? Learn something new every dayAgentNein said:Just one clarification, country actually predates rock n roll a mite bit. Modern country however is pretty much glorified pop southern rock. But yeah, country's not really a subgenre of rock n roll.THEAFRONINJA said:I don't care how many people try to defend him because he's "just a kid", I think Justin Beiber is a complete tool.
Also, although this isn't about music strictly, so sorry if I shouldn't put it here, but I hate it when people say all rap is about "bitchez and drugz". BAD rap is about those things. There's a lot of good rap. And even if a lot of it is about hard life on 'the streets', so what if you can't relate to it? I can't relate to being a Jedi during an attempted Jedi genocide, but I love Star Wars. I can't relate to being a hard nut gangster, but I love Snatch and Pulp Fiction. I can't relate to being the coolest guy on Earth, but I love Samuel L. Jackson. I can't... well, you get the drift, I just don't think that "I can't relate to it" justifies a hatred of an entire genre. I'm not saying you HAVE to like it, just give a better reason?
Also:
Urrm... Rap is a sub-genre of Hip-Hop. Country is a sub-genre of Rock, and Pop is hard to define as a genre as it's only what's POPular at the time, i.e. a rock song could be pop, as could a rap song.mr_hi said:
However, I completely agree with your last two points