Comments | beldar: Which seat *CAN* I take?

beldar

Which seat CAN I take?

Mar 25, 2011 10:28

It's Friday!
That means yesterday was Thursday, etc.

Since the country is all on an anti-bullying kick, you think we can lay off of picking on Rebecca Black?

I could care less about her "hit" and the quality thereof. Bad songs have been composed and performed on a regular basis going back centuries to the days of minstrels. In latter days they all get ( Read more... )

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sra33 March 25 2011, 14:39:52 UTC

Tomorrow is Saturday, and Sunday is afterward. ^^

Yeah I guess they made $12mil off the song? And since there's no publisher she gets ALL THAT MONEY. Wtf. Maybe I should write a song...

sra33 March 25 2011, 14:48:46 UTC

P.S. I like that second song a WHOLE lot more than this Friday song. I dunno, maybe you consider the lyrics questionable, but it's a lot less questionable than "we so so so excited". >.> Imo... *cough* >.>

beldar March 25 2011, 15:10:46 UTC

The lyrics are pretty banal -- "shakin' my hips like, yeah" -- but the quality is beside the point (there's stuff with lame lyrics I like), though they aren't important even to the singer, who confessed that she never really listened to Jay-Z.

The thing that blew me away about that song was seeing music critics name it one of the best of 2009. It's OK, with danceable hooks and appeal to its demographic, but it's a run-of-the mill pop song performed by someone with more fame than talent (part of whose appeal [as illustrated by the SNL skits] is that she has more fame than talent).
The only way I could justify that ranking is to presume what appealed to the critics (I know I may be giving them too much credit for intelligence) was not the singer Miley Cyrus, but the *product* Miley Cyrus, the finished work of carefully constructed pop song and reconstructed voice packaged with a recognizable All-American flowering teen girl body. She's her own Muppet (with apologies to the Henson folks).

sra33 March 25 2011, 15:16:49 UTC

Riiiiiight yeah I definitely wouldn't consider it one of the best of 2009, but it had a nice sound to it, and made me want to dance. I think the reason why I liked the lyrics was stuff like

"Everybody's lookin' at me now
Like "Who's that chick that's rockin' kicks
She's gotta be from out of town"

So hard with my girls not around me
It's definitely not a Nashville party
'Cause all I see are stilettos
I guess I never got the memo"

I just like it. ^^

ANYWAY, that's more of a taste thing than anything. But yeah it does lack a lot of substance to call it "#1 for 2009" or even top 10... :\

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