Quality Control
You could have had some consideration for your readers (and a more curmudgeonly lot you'd be hard-pressed to find) and just, y'know, kept it to your damned selves!
Interwebs stunned by musical atrocity
I'd really like to thank the Beeb this afternoon for flagging up Rebecca Black's Friday, which has become a bit of a hit down at iTunes despite provoking the desire to tear your ears off with pliers. "Fun, loving, 13 year old" Rebecca has proved that you can sell just about anything if you get a net buzz going, even if that …
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Monday 21st March 2011 15:27 GMT Anonymous Coward
and now the wikipedia entry
There's been resistance on the grounds that she/the rendition just weren't "notable" though I suspect a few editors thought it was just plain crap idea to put her in the encyclopaedia-anyone-can-etc .
That a certain high-waisted musical impressario thinks it is in anyway a good thing (the rendition not they wikipedia artticle) should be a warning shot across society's bows.
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Tuesday 22nd March 2011 10:15 GMT Robert Carnegie
Does being famous for fifteen minutes qualify you for Wikipedia?
Anyway if the condition of entry is to be "not able", then......
I still haven't heard this song. I agree that it isn't dignified for adults to sneer at children.
The radio version of [Dead Ringers] once had a sketch that imagined Anne Robinson from the [Weakest Link] game show judging the pictures her children had drawn that day at primary school and dismissing "The Weakest Child" from the family. The message was that it's a horrible thing to do.
Then again, many years ago, possibly on the [Red Dwarf] writers' radio show [Son of Cliché], there was a sketch of an archaeologist viciously verbally ripping apart cave paintings, that at the time I thought I was brilliant. "This is cack. This is worse than that Egyptian cack..."
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Monday 21st March 2011 15:29 GMT Anonymous Coward
Another reason to rejoice at my separation...
...is that I no longer share a home with a teenager who will insist on playing crap like this on endless loop at high volume.
This shit would give Bieber a toothache.
Okay, I know I'm sounding a little like my Dad here, but the youth of today really don't seem to understand decent music; it's just whatever is cynically pushed at them as the next big thing, and they pass it on and play it as if it had any kind of merit...
I despair, really I do...
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Monday 21st March 2011 16:40 GMT James Hughes 1
it's not all bad out there
Was in a pub on Sat night - band playing - lots of good rock, drummer did an amazing solo.
Lead guitar was about 18, drummer was 13. Awesome.
None of this pansy flapping shite in my local let me tell you. Until the band went off, and the yoof got hold of the juke box. Had to drink heavily from that point onwards.
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Monday 21st March 2011 17:49 GMT serviceWithASmile
doubleplus
it really isn't all that bad out there, it just seems that any music that ever required any kind of talent (or a real musical instrument - no autotune doesnt count) is being sidelined.
it's not really, it's just that the talentless, vapid tools simon cowell keeps hiring make more noise and get more coverage - learn not to listen and you will hear the real and talented bands out there whose bond is not about money but about love for what they do. Not just talking about rock, the same is true for most if not all genres. pubs are generally the best place to find these people.
If you too want quality music and have an innate distrust for the words "protools" and "MIDI" then follow my 3 easy steps for musical nirvana:
1. don't watch x-factor
a. avoid tv in general (optional but recommended)
2. listen to internet radio
3. go to small venues for gigs often
a. have a pint (optional but recommended)
follow these simple rules and a musically rich life shall be yours!
is anybody running a rage-against-the-machine-for-christmas-number-one this year?
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Monday 21st March 2011 17:49 GMT HFoster
Thing is...
Every generation says that, but the fact of the matter is, we're all prone to rose tinting our youth. My mum often bangs on about songs from her day having good lyrics. I pointed out Toots & The Maytals "Bam Bam". Conversation over.
I know for a fact that, in among all the screw-faced Jungle I listened to as a teen, was more than a few cheesily bad songs.
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Monday 21st March 2011 16:13 GMT Anonymous Coward
real life rating
When smartphones with object recognition get integrated into glasses some bright spark will create software for it that will enable you to comment on and "thumb up" or "thumb down" real world objects - such as places, buildings and people.
Watching tv and looking at famous people/places/events will never be the same with those glasses. Can't wait to to read the comments!
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Monday 21st March 2011 16:35 GMT Mostor Astrakan
Oh come on...
It isn't that bad when you turn down the volume as low as it will go. It's a cute girl imitating a goldfish. I bet you, if Beethoven had been around at the time, it would have cheered him up no end, and convinced him that his ironic condition could be a source of joy as well as sadness. And she got the days of the week in their proper order too, producing a work of chronological excellence. After all, even the Mamas and the Papas didn't dare go beyond monday, the Bangles famously put "Sunday" *behind* "Monday", to universal ridicule. All you haters simply don't understand the deeper meaning of this piece. The passing of time. The reflection upon the fragility of existence. Philistines!
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