Wow, that wasn't really a love song... more like a hate song. I want to see what Yahtzee thinks.
Good job, and good luck dealing with him...
Good job, and good luck dealing with him...
Rebecca Mayes Muses: Love Song for Yahtzee
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rebecca, that was so freakin' awesome. i hope you and yahtzee do have that drink someday...but please don't stab him. lol.
Maybe I'm missing the point, but I really didn't enjoy that song very much. Is she trying to make us laugh? Were the references in the song meant to be funny? If so then the song failed in that respect for me. I guess it succeeded in what it was meant to do for her though, the views must be through the roof.
I liked it. Well. Almost.
I quite liked the "Are you asking if it's ok to be the way I am?" thing you read into Yahtzee's very personal style. Not sure if it's true or not. Probably isn't. Might be.
Some of it just didn't quite click. Maybe it's not supposed to, but I felt that the bloodhound was a big lipped alligator, and many of the other lyrics also felt wedged in, to the point that they actually made me wince a bit.
I liked that you were brave enough to directly link your stance to feminism. Few people would be, on this site. Or in real life, for that matter - I'm not sure why feminism seems so contentious when true parity has clearly not been reached in cultural or economical terms in most societies (I believe some Scandinavian countries are close, though I could be wrong - even underestimating them).
I think I just realised why your song annoys me though. It reminds me of Tim Minschen, all rambling quasi-philosophical, quasi-sensitive bullshit delivered in a very boring, 'easy', digestible song-form, with no attempt to match style to content. The healthy dose of self-righteousness didn't help much either (another Minschen-esque quality) - I don't know the backstory, and I don't care to, but some of this was like listening to flatmates falling out over the milk.
In conclusion, yes it's absolutely fine to be the way you are. Your views are, from the sounds of it, not insane, barring a little involuntary ocular re-adjustment with a screwdriver now and then. None of your lyrics were very strong though, and there were many occasions where the right metaphor or simile would have made me laugh out loud or sympathise more strongly with your message, but you messed up or backed out, or just didn't want to end up sounding like a Yahtzee wannabe (You seem very aware of your audience, for good or ill). The tone sorta shifted about strangely, too, and I felt you were trying (dunno if it was conscious or not) almost to hide your hate, for fear of the backlash you'd provoke. It made the song much less enjoyable, and much more uncomfortable, than if you'd straight ripped into him. Maybe that was the point, but you sing songs for a gaming website - bit pretentious to eschew that kind of satirical bite in favour of subtlety on this platform.
Also, god-damn I hate Tim Minschen. I probably am biased against you just because your song reminded me of the uninspired over-rated affected poser. But overall, I still quite liked it.
I quite liked the "Are you asking if it's ok to be the way I am?" thing you read into Yahtzee's very personal style. Not sure if it's true or not. Probably isn't. Might be.
Some of it just didn't quite click. Maybe it's not supposed to, but I felt that the bloodhound was a big lipped alligator, and many of the other lyrics also felt wedged in, to the point that they actually made me wince a bit.
I liked that you were brave enough to directly link your stance to feminism. Few people would be, on this site. Or in real life, for that matter - I'm not sure why feminism seems so contentious when true parity has clearly not been reached in cultural or economical terms in most societies (I believe some Scandinavian countries are close, though I could be wrong - even underestimating them).
I think I just realised why your song annoys me though. It reminds me of Tim Minschen, all rambling quasi-philosophical, quasi-sensitive bullshit delivered in a very boring, 'easy', digestible song-form, with no attempt to match style to content. The healthy dose of self-righteousness didn't help much either (another Minschen-esque quality) - I don't know the backstory, and I don't care to, but some of this was like listening to flatmates falling out over the milk.
In conclusion, yes it's absolutely fine to be the way you are. Your views are, from the sounds of it, not insane, barring a little involuntary ocular re-adjustment with a screwdriver now and then. None of your lyrics were very strong though, and there were many occasions where the right metaphor or simile would have made me laugh out loud or sympathise more strongly with your message, but you messed up or backed out, or just didn't want to end up sounding like a Yahtzee wannabe (You seem very aware of your audience, for good or ill). The tone sorta shifted about strangely, too, and I felt you were trying (dunno if it was conscious or not) almost to hide your hate, for fear of the backlash you'd provoke. It made the song much less enjoyable, and much more uncomfortable, than if you'd straight ripped into him. Maybe that was the point, but you sing songs for a gaming website - bit pretentious to eschew that kind of satirical bite in favour of subtlety on this platform.
Also, god-damn I hate Tim Minschen. I probably am biased against you just because your song reminded me of the uninspired over-rated affected poser. But overall, I still quite liked it.
I'm not sure which side you're coming down on. Posting the wiki quote without analysis doesn't say anything either way. If the excerpt is accepted as evidence, the Chinese history of tolerance of homosexuals is at best checkered compared to the US.huckleberryhound said:
True enough, check her blog, there's a whole ideological theme about it there. Featured in her Heavy Rain video. From what I remember she finds hair on male-butts repulsive and armpit hair is supposed to be somehow connected to that matter, thou I didn't really understand the logic behind it.
Riven Armor said:
I have no opinion on the treatment of homosexuals in America, i'm sure they can stand up for themselves on that matter. I just thought China was an odd choice of meter in this specific argument. It just seems like the "go-to" whipping boy of the modern uneducated.
I watched that Heavy rain vid and god you were right. She has got hairy pits. I used to think she was quite cute and now shes been declassified as pretty but with hairy mole-holes. I'm so shallow but my personal prefference has always been to date people that look slightly less gross than me naked.cynik said:
I like her singing though just not her beauty regime.
Lovelocke" post="6.204489.6926308 said:Never seen a Rebecca Mayes video based solely on the grounds of I hate the overuse of "Muse", "Muses", "Musings", etc. and the presumed cleverness of "Mayes Muses":
By "over-use", are you referring to the, er, SINGLE use of "muses" in the title for the video series? I mean, sure the title does, as you say, obviously play on Muse (as in "the nine muses dance 'round the fountain of Hippocrene") and "muse/musings" as in "pondering", but, are you really saying that ONE INCIDENCE of a play on words is enough to make your bile-ducts start working over-time?
I mean, don't get me wrong: I'm not picking on you for not liking R.M. (my own contrary opinions notwithstanding): I just thought that being irritated at a single double-meaining in a title was a little, well, odd. Obviously, you may legitimately not care about what I do and do not find weird, in which case, I suppose you can just take this as me making a mental note not to unleash too many puns around you...
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It got stuck in my head later, but I was more confused than anything. I guess I don't get the joke.
After the first few seconds of the song, I thought she was just going to ingratiate him which struck me as awfully predictable. Then I listened in shock as she tore him a new one, before I realized she was flattering him through mimicry. Their twitter comments clearly show her criticism was genuine, but if her criticism weren't genuine then it wouldn't be a true homage to his work. The song is about individuality and Yahtzee's confidence to be unique in the face of self-doubt. She clearly admires his rise above the mediocrity of mainstream reviewers and ironically, she criticizes him for misogyny, homophobia and sexism.
Yahtzee's criticism belies strong underlying optimism, because he always implies that the video game companies could do better but don't bother. Yahtzee criticizes video games because he expects so much of them, and they are forever falling short of his optimistic expectations. That's not to say he doesn't enjoy video games. Indeed, his perpetual optimism is probably fueled by a deep love of the medium. In this same way, it seems Ms. Mayes has high expectations of Yahtzee.
Yahtzee's criticism belies strong underlying optimism, because he always implies that the video game companies could do better but don't bother. Yahtzee criticizes video games because he expects so much of them, and they are forever falling short of his optimistic expectations. That's not to say he doesn't enjoy video games. Indeed, his perpetual optimism is probably fueled by a deep love of the medium. In this same way, it seems Ms. Mayes has high expectations of Yahtzee.
I'm usually the first to call "satire" when I see something that is ridiculously irrational, but I feel like Rebecca Mayes was genuine in her accusations of Yahtzee as a homophobic misogynist. At no point did I chuckle and say to myself "ah, she's just taking the piss", so either she's very, very good at sarcasm, or she's just a dumb git.
Also this whole "is it okay" business is hilariously retarded. Yahtzee isn't asking for anyone's approval. He unapologetically makes his points. Yes, he has over-the-top, egotistical, self-important tendencies, but it's not because he's trying to mask a deep-seed insecurity - it's because unwarranted self-importance is good for a laugh and his reviews are supposed to be comical.
As a chick myself I'm embarrassed that Rebecca has to imbue all her songs with this "deep" emotional crap. For example, Rebecca Mayes' Modern Warfare song; "Will we talk about this game for years to come, or will we talk about you?" ...What is this, I don't even? I would like to clarify that not all us ladies are wimpy sapbags governed entirely by emotions.
Plus Rebecca... underarm hair, ew. If I have to shave my shit, so do you, lady.
Also this whole "is it okay" business is hilariously retarded. Yahtzee isn't asking for anyone's approval. He unapologetically makes his points. Yes, he has over-the-top, egotistical, self-important tendencies, but it's not because he's trying to mask a deep-seed insecurity - it's because unwarranted self-importance is good for a laugh and his reviews are supposed to be comical.
As a chick myself I'm embarrassed that Rebecca has to imbue all her songs with this "deep" emotional crap. For example, Rebecca Mayes' Modern Warfare song; "Will we talk about this game for years to come, or will we talk about you?" ...What is this, I don't even? I would like to clarify that not all us ladies are wimpy sapbags governed entirely by emotions.
Plus Rebecca... underarm hair, ew. If I have to shave my shit, so do you, lady.