Perspective
Apr. 20th, 2011 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomRebecca 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?
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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Date: 2011-04-20 11:54 pm (UTC)http://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
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Date: 2011-04-21 01:00 am (UTC)*clicky*
*giggle*
Yup. :-)
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Date: 2011-04-21 02:31 am (UTC)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.)
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Date: 2011-04-21 05:01 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-21 05:50 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-21 03:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-21 04:50 am (UTC)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. :-)