Thursday, the day of abomination

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Let's talk about HATE, poptimists. It'll be therapeutic.

What horrible, terrible, reprehensible musical things have occurred thus far this year? Did The Saturdays covering 'Just Can't Get Enough' make you cry? Do The Lonely Island make you want to beat your own face in? Do you think Lady Gaga just hasn't received enough press coverage? Is The Dream overrated? Did Royksopp, in your opinion, shove out a massive log of POO? Have you heard that new single by The Enemy?

[Poll #1376740]

A post about ORGAFUN coming later, once we've ~expelled the hate.

Comments

Re: Woke up today and all I could say is "Um."

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

there's no general reason why this tactic -- cover a song in a rather different mode -- shouldn't make for stuff that's really interesting: but what's become pertinent is that it so relentlessly now produces bad work (with the good stuff the exceptions proving the rule)

Re: Woke up today and all I could say is "Um."

[koganbot]

But Asher is not covering a song in another mode. That's only Dan Black. The crew upthread are misleading you.

My being pedantic

[koganbot]

"Exception that proves the rule" originally was using "prove" in the archaic sense of "test," but now means either, (1) when you examine the exception it turns out not to be an exception, or (2) you're just saying "the exception proves the rule" because you don't know how to explain the exception.

Re: My being pedantic

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

yes i just like to use it to bug people -- it drove my logic tutor mental

Re: My being pedantic

[koganbot]

But usage (1) is really good, when you can pull it off. (I did it in my John Conlee review, where I said "Conlee generally chooses to wallow rather than dissemble. His basic theme is not getting over it (the nuthouse song being the apparent exception that very much proves the rule); this can mean being true to a true love, but more often it means not letting go of a lost love" (the nuthouse song has him confined to a mental institution because of the amnesia by way of which he manages to forget his lost love).)

Re: My being pedantic

[koganbot]

The British Invasion bands had to write their own songs, since they weren't going to find music biz professionals who knew how to write them. (Exception that proves the rule would be The Animals' "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place," written by Brill Building pros Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. Weil's lyrics have the protagonist desperate to break out of poverty; Eric Burdon sings them as if he's desperate to break out of the world.)

http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/archive/2007/aug/02/the-rules-of-the-game-no-9-the-teens-are-cool-but-