TWITTER UPDATES Tweets by @mrmarkreed
LEGAL DECLARATION :
Be cool.This website does not represent anyone, anything, or any organisation. By viewing this website, you agree that you are not accessing this material to cause detriment to anyone in any way for any reason. If you remain on this page or the site in any way it constitutes explicit agreement with the previous statement without exception. Material presented on this site is "as is" and may not neccessarily be an accurate depiction of events or opinions.
Links
Website
Blog
Reviews
Photos
MySpace
Facebook
Amazon Page
Archives
Tourist Destinations : personal blogs
Adem
Alecya G's Plastic Castle
Aravis
Bug Jemm
Cat Girl
Coney Cat
David Marsden
Flotsky!
Hedgehog Girl
KK
MilkMilkLemonade
Penny Red
Reader Meet Author
Russ
Spinsterwitch
Steve Campkin
Stevyn Colgan
Swisslet
ToothpasteForDinner
The Boy Wil
Yoko Spungeon
Links Of Interest
Bad Science
Beau B'Dor
Billy Corgan
The Bullshit Detector
Boblog
Dave Gorman
Dave Navarro
David Byrne
David Mitchell
Den Of Geek
Derren Brown
Goths!
Hagley Road
Iain Baker (Jesus Jones)
Information Is Beautiful
JMJarre
John August
John Scalzi
Kevin Smith
Kristen Hersh
Liberal Conspiracy
London Underground
Moby
Morgan Spurlock
Neil Gaiman
Passive Aggressive!
Photoshop Disasters
Post Secret
Richard Herring
Rob Manuel
Roger Ebert
Ross Halfin
Rules For Parents
Schneier
Speake Yr Branes!
Stephen Fry
Stuff White People Like
Superpowers
Things I Hate
Wil Wheaton
the war against intelligence.
The other week I had the misfortune to listen to The View doing Same Jeans (You Tube link here). Shall we examine the opening couplet?
"I’ve had the same jeans on for four days now
I’m going to a disco in the middle of town"
Anyone care to guess what I'm about to say? No? Ok. Here we go. What a shit shit shit brainless vaccous braindead dumb fucking lyric. Words in songs aren't just verbal graffitti : they aren't just treating the voice as an extra instrument where it doesn't actually matter what is being said.
I know they are only 18, but even at 18, I wasn't as pigshit dumb as this to think such lazy, vapid couplets were of any worth at all.
I hate dumb music. And if the lyrics are shit, it IS dumb. What happened to aspiration? What happened to ideas? What happened to poetry? What happened to trying to help understand life, what happened to art? In 16 lines you can write something as perceptive and important as "Aubade", or something as plain pigthick as "Same Jeans."
Why do people aspire to mediocrity? You ask for nothing... and that's exactly what you'll get.
It's that bad I can't be arsed looking for it to post here.
I agree, The View are shocking.
"Auberge", however - now there is a great record. I always sang along and inserted the words "Youth Hostel" (which of course doesn't fit) when I got to the chorus.
It was fun in my house. Honest.
<< Home
