FightStarter - Your Thoughts PLEASE...
Apparently, music fans are among the most passionate, the most vocal, and the most argumentitive groups of people in the whole world. And this is largely because if someone is telling you that McFly are sucky when you know damn well that they are spiffy TO THE MAX, part of your anger comes because the person you are itching to punch in the face is messing with the WORLD AS YOU KNOW IT, right?
And, as psychologists will be the first to tell you, keeping those feelings of irritation and annoyance bottled up is a terribly bad idea. For starters, where would you find a bottle big enough to contain the oceans of irk created by someone calling Eminem 'rubbish' or Keane 'good dinner-party music'?
And that's without factoring in the damage that can be caused by all these FEELINGS swishing around inside. Leave all that stuff percolating away and you're asking for stomach ulcers, headaches, flatulence, and maybe even a loss of smell in extreme cases - which might be considered a stroke of luck, given the flatulence I just mentioned.
Ultimately we are all of us just one thoughtless music-related comment away from going off pop-bang like massive hairy meat-filled balloons, as these explanicons show only too clearly...
So, being a public-minded sort of ChartBlog, I'm giving you a chance to really EXPRESS some of that INNER RAGE.
I'm going to give you five deliberately provocative thoughts or statements, based on modern pop music, and I want you to think about each one, long and hard, until the steam is coming out of your facial orifices, and then...at the peak moment...LET YOUR RAGE TAKE OVER...
By which I mean type a response in the comments box underneath. It's for your own good!
So, are you ready? Deep breaths? Here we go...
Thought The First: If the Beatles were around today, they would sound like Westlife, and that would be GREAT!
Thought The Second: If My Chemical Romance love British culture and music so damn much, they should represent the UK at next year's Eurovision Song Contest.
Thought The Third: If Leona Lewis has The X-Factor, first of all, Y? And secondly, Zzzz...
Thought The Fourth: The Red Hot Chili Peppers are rubbish live. Girls Aloud are LOADS better.
Thought The Fifth: Robbie Williams is a really good rapper, and they should make 8 Mile 2 about his struggles to make it in the hip hop game...
There, that's the blue touch-paper lit...I've retired to a safe distance...BRING ON THE FIREWORKS!
Comments
1: Nah, how could the Beatles sound like Westlife? Completely different styles of music. But if the Beatles were still around today i doubt they'd still be popular, very few bands older than 20 years are still getting into the top 20.
2: Would they be allowed to? They're not British. But if they could that'd be great. But good music acts never enter, it's always some act that no one's ever heard of.
3: Well, Leona can sing but if her soon to be released album doesn't have good, unique songs on it then she'll be forgotten by this time next year.
4: I've seen both the Chili Peppers and Girls Aloud live and they're both great!
5: So many people were slagging off Robbie's Rudebox album without giving it a chance. All the reviews for it were fantastic - even NME gave it 8/10! Best album of 2006 in my opinion. I don't think he should make a film though...
Most passionate? No, stupidest. They destroy their minds with hard drugs, soft drugs, alcohol, deafening noise. In short they deliberately lose their minds and will say or do anything as long as it bears no resemblance to anything intelligent. They have this in common with soccer hooligans except that soccer hooligans eventually sober up, even if they also never grow up. Small wonder then a lot of rock musicians die from drug overdoses. No loss to the world as far as I am concerned. As for the Beatles, they signaled the death of music. What we have had since bears little resemblance to it, the world would be a far better and quieter place without it. Don't like it? Go set fire to an amp or a speaker, also typical rock musician behavior. Mindless.
Though I do love Girls Aloud, that statement is absolute crap. First off, Red Hot Chilis actually play their music and sing live. Secondly, even though the sound was far too quiet, I saw them in Hyde Park in 2004 and they were beyond amazing. Anthony Keidis is 40, yet he has more energy than all of the members of Girls Aloud put together. And he doesn't just stand there pouting.
On another issue, Robbie Williams cannot rap. Though it would be hilarious to see an 8 mile style film about him.
In response to Mark. Are you claiming that all people who listen to pop music are drugged up idiots who have no intelligent thoughts? First off, if you hate pop music and those who like it, why in God's name are you on a pop music website? Surely that goes against everything you believe in?
Secondly, I would hardly consider myself to be a drugged unintelligent fool and I enjoy pop music, rock music, pretty much anything. One is able to enjoy music without suddenly becoming a drug addict, even if the music is that of someone in the drug scene (eg Babyshambles). If you have read any of the comments here in the past month you would see that amongst those young folk who write things such as "u r soooo kool" there are many of us who write intelligible responses to the articles. Clearly not everyone falls into your definition.
To generalise all fans of pop music as you have done is like generalising all football fans. You seem to be quite good at doing this; your analogy seems to make the assumption that all fans of football are drunken hooligans. While some fans of pop music may fit the description you have given, I highly doubt that many of the 14 and 15 year old who come on here are addicted to meth and getting drunk every night.
I think you need to broaden your perspectives and quit being so close minded. Though pop music may not be your cup of tea, the reason why it is called "pop" is because it is "popular". It would not be popular if there was not a large fan base, so there are obviously millions out there enjoying it. Stop bitching and moaning and just turn off the radio if you hate it so much.
Now if the Chilis just did their stuff from Blood Sugar Sex Magik and before, then that would be an awesome gig. However, since their set's littered with their watered down material since then, I'd have to say that Girls Aloud do have the better set - minus their ballads, of course.
Exactly, thank you Nick, your response to that Mark bloke sums up exactly what I was thinking while reading his "comment"...
You know Mark, you can always go to the Classic FM website if you prefer it to Chart Blog. We won't miss you.
1. I enjoy both Westlife and the Beatles. But they don't sound the same, thank goodness. As much as I love Westlife, there do not need to be any more bands that sound like them. One is enough. And the Beatles always (or almost always) have had their own sound.
2. I love British culture and music too (and I'm also American), but Eurovision should be for Europeans. Isn't that why it's called that?!?
3. I don't know anything about Leona...but I think she did the same song as Kelly Clarkson when she was the original American Idol (not totally sure about that, but I think so).
4. & 5. Never seen either live, but I'm sure they'd both be really cool. And I would laugh really hard if Robbie Williams would star in a movie. That'd be hilarious.
And as for the guy that hates pop music...I'm not a druggie, I don't have hearing loss, and I do have a brain. Thanks for being so concerned.
And if you don't like the Beatles (or any of this kind of music) don't listen to it!!!!
Mcfly rock!!!
If the Beatles were around today, they would sound like Westlife, and that would be GREAT!
If Westlife were capable of writing songs after having had them created for them, and they headbutted naysayers at the front row of their concert, did solo record covers naked and took drugs in the toilets of Buckingham Palace, then they might be somewhere approaching The Beatles. As it stands, however, two fourths of The Beatles are dead, whereas all members of Westlife are dead behind the eyes.
If My Chemical Romance love British culture and music so damn much, they should represent the UK at next year's Eurovision Song Contest.
Yes, but only if they can learn all the words wordplay and accents of a Chas and Dave song, and conduct the performance wearing straw hats and natty threads.
If Leona Lewis has The X-Factor, first of all, Y? And secondly, Zzzz...
I believe it was Marilyn Manson who sang, "I've got an F, and a C and I've got a K too, but the only thing thats missing is a b like You" Sums it up really.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers are rubbish live. Girls Aloud are LOADS better.
I think they're both a bunch of knackers. I've seen niether live though, so thats one for the jury.
Robbie Williams is a really good rapper, and they should make 8 Mile 2 about his struggles to make it in the hip hop game...
I agree, and the movie should be called "Get Rich or do loads of antidepressants and Sleeping Pills trying" Robbie's cool though, he likes KISS, I doubt Eminem rocks out to "Strutter"
To Mark: I love my music, have it on pretty much constantly. I have never taken drugs, hardly ever drink . . . oh, and I'm a 5yr medical student and have consistently been either first or second in a year of 240. I also achieved a first with honours BSc in developmental biology as an intercalated degree. Keep your opinions to yourself and stay off a MUSIC website if you hate music that much!