I Want My MTV
Some observations gleaned from watching late-night MTV (you know, when they actually get around to playing music videos):
1. It's hilarious how Nick Steiner of all people can predict music trends about a year ahead of time. Two years ago he was all about Modest Mouse, then last summer Float On was a big single. Then last year he was all about My Chemical Romance, now they're busting into the mainstream. Too bad that the bands aren't any better mainstream than they were when they were relatively unknown (sorry, Nick).
2. Speaking of My Chemical Romance, the biggest problem with all these emo (post-emo? whatever the fuck they're calling themselves these days) bands is that they have no sense of pace. The beginning is little more than studio-altered noodling and the end is anemic, and the whole middle is just one long verse/chorus/bridge wall of sound that is so soaring and so epic that they only thing it can do to get more epic in the chorus is drop into half-time. These people need to listen to some more GNR to learn how to make songs, rather than a couple of catchy 20-second blocks of music stitched together.
3. Green Day has a video out for the song Wake Me Up When September Ends. The beginning has a young boy and girl being all cute and shit and they're totally like in love, then he joins the Army and gets shot at a bunch while his girlfriend sits alone at home looking very concerned. While I suppose the core subject matter - that soldiers are real men with real lives whose sacrifices cannot be underestimated - is something that bears reminding for every generation, in its own words, I don't think a band whose previous specialties were masturbation and weed smoking are the ones to do it. Even worse is Green Day's lame leftist sentiments that the boy's sacrifice is a waste, and even worse than that is the fact that the song really, really sucks. They don't even have the balls to show the guy getting killed. In fact, some other dude gets shot while our noble hero hides behind a wall and looks scared. Fuck you, Green Day, for using images of our brave soldiers to force-feed us your pathetic, facile, Screen Actor's Guild leftist psuedopolitical agenda with your shitty, shitty song.
4. 50 Cent is an ignorant, vicious, crude thug. Also he is a dumb nigger.
1. It's hilarious how Nick Steiner of all people can predict music trends about a year ahead of time. Two years ago he was all about Modest Mouse, then last summer Float On was a big single. Then last year he was all about My Chemical Romance, now they're busting into the mainstream. Too bad that the bands aren't any better mainstream than they were when they were relatively unknown (sorry, Nick).
2. Speaking of My Chemical Romance, the biggest problem with all these emo (post-emo? whatever the fuck they're calling themselves these days) bands is that they have no sense of pace. The beginning is little more than studio-altered noodling and the end is anemic, and the whole middle is just one long verse/chorus/bridge wall of sound that is so soaring and so epic that they only thing it can do to get more epic in the chorus is drop into half-time. These people need to listen to some more GNR to learn how to make songs, rather than a couple of catchy 20-second blocks of music stitched together.
3. Green Day has a video out for the song Wake Me Up When September Ends. The beginning has a young boy and girl being all cute and shit and they're totally like in love, then he joins the Army and gets shot at a bunch while his girlfriend sits alone at home looking very concerned. While I suppose the core subject matter - that soldiers are real men with real lives whose sacrifices cannot be underestimated - is something that bears reminding for every generation, in its own words, I don't think a band whose previous specialties were masturbation and weed smoking are the ones to do it. Even worse is Green Day's lame leftist sentiments that the boy's sacrifice is a waste, and even worse than that is the fact that the song really, really sucks. They don't even have the balls to show the guy getting killed. In fact, some other dude gets shot while our noble hero hides behind a wall and looks scared. Fuck you, Green Day, for using images of our brave soldiers to force-feed us your pathetic, facile, Screen Actor's Guild leftist psuedopolitical agenda with your shitty, shitty song.
4. 50 Cent is an ignorant, vicious, crude thug. Also he is a dumb nigger.