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filkertom ([personal profile] filkertom) wrote2011-04-20 06:38 pm
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Rebecca Black has received death threats.

Look, "Friday" is a very catchy song with very banal lyrics. It can be done well, in a ironic-knowing-wink sort of way, such as when Stephen Colbert and Taylor Hicks sang it with Jimmy Fallon. But it's fluff. It's nothing.

Death threats!? Over this?

Whoever you are, you are really, really making something out of nothing. She's a thirteen year old girl. If you had the kind of exposure she's had, you'd be on top of the world, no matter the source. And, action movies aside, violence never solves anything. Especially viral video.

On top of which, you obviously have never heard Sheena Easton.

What musical artist could you happily never hear again?
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[personal profile] per_solo 2011-04-20 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
This. Just this...if I never hear it again, I'll be happy.

http://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

[identity profile] jannyblue.livejournal.com 2011-04-21 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
I bet I know what that link is...

*clicky*

*giggle*

Yup. :-)
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[identity profile] technoshaman.livejournal.com 2011-04-21 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
... and that's all the hint I needed to guess...

There are a couple individual *songs* that got way overplayed that I could do without ever hearing again... the M*c*r*n*, for one.... (although doing the *dance* associated with that song to various *other* songs is a stitch... :) and that sappy thing from Titanic whose name fortunately escapes me...

Hank Jr. can just sit in the corner and roll smoke, for all I care...

And basically anything whiny, be it bad grunge, some warbly girl with an acoustic guitar who sings the pop analog to ose, or bad country songs about being losers...

(and before anybody bitches, there *is* good country, and I seriously like Melissa Etheridge, but I have yet to be really convinced by the grunge thing.)

[identity profile] hbruton.livejournal.com 2011-04-21 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
Played too much? For me that would be.."who let the dogs out". Want to scream everytime I hear it start up!

[identity profile] gardnerhill.livejournal.com 2011-04-21 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
I like the fact that Supernatural just did an episode where a rogue archangel went back in time and rescued the TITANIC -- only because he loathed the song.
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[personal profile] batyatoon 2011-04-21 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
And the movie in general.
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[personal profile] per_solo 2011-04-21 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
I'm too predictable sometimes...I was tempted to replace it with the Family Guy spoof...

But then, I'd get to one of my other "Songs I'm tired of", and start asking others if they'd heard the word...

Good guess on the link. :-)