i'm not saying you suggested it was real! rather, that it is of an order of magnitude that is actually pretty similar to illuminati conspiracy theories.
― confusion is sexts (c sharp major), Friday, 16 August 2013 17:33 (ten years ago) link
do you even understand what orders of magnitude are?
― katherine, Friday, 16 August 2013 17:39 (ten years ago) link
"these two people might actually be dating rather than these two people" = "the U.S. government, for decades, has been kidnapping babies and brainwashing teenage girls using magical technology that works by conspiracy theory logic, for reasons nobody really gives a shit about explaining, in a manner that is suspiciously similar to anti-semitic tracts or bad porn"
― katherine, Friday, 16 August 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link
sorry, let me rephrase:
the extent to which "lance bass stayed in the closet while in nsync" is like "larry stylinson is real, louis' girlfriend is a beard, anyone who expresses the idea that this is not true is being paid off by management to hush up their true love (but they nevertheless keep showing it in their body language so that we True Believers can recognise)" is of a comparable order to the extent to which "jay-z has made a lot of canny business deals in order to have success" is like "jay-z has taken a blood oath and joined the devil-worshipping illuminati in order to have success (but he nevertheless keeps showing it in his accessories and aesthetic choices so that we True Believers can recognise)".
i.e. the order or magnitude i'm talking about is how much the conspiracy theory has exploded beyond the part that relates to known fact. i don't feel like i'm saying something very controversial?
― confusion is sexts (c sharp major), Friday, 16 August 2013 18:33 (ten years ago) link
lol
― some dude, Friday, 16 August 2013 18:47 (ten years ago) link
in that case then yeah
― katherine, Friday, 16 August 2013 20:06 (ten years ago) link
The thing about all the Larry stuff is that yes, at worst it's a weird form of fetishizing homosexuality that mostly straight people do, and at best it's based on very spurious to the point of being nonexistence evidence.
Spurious?
http://static.tumblr.com/68031e1cdf744a70cb3b828689b6f7ae/1vge2nl/XGmmmxs43/tumblr_static_a99cj4lccaeqbd_.jpeg
http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/30900000/Larry-larry-stylinson-30903893-470-345.jpg
etc.
― -- A smile on a dog, Stephen answered, (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 16 August 2013 20:46 (ten years ago) link
Those aren't even the steamy ones
― -- A smile on a dog, Stephen answered, (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 16 August 2013 20:47 (ten years ago) link
Like, I'm pretty sure Larryshippers, mostly have a reasonable level of belief that This Relationship Exists. "Spurious evidence" is kind of beside the point. Like I said upthread, these guys are deliberately allowing fans to cultivate their shipping fantasies. Evidence isn't an issue.
― -- A smile on a dog, Stephen answered, (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 16 August 2013 20:50 (ten years ago) link
(apologies for shitty punc)
hazel robinson:
http://piratemoggy.tumblr.com/post/58456757322/five-posts-about-that-one-direction-fan-documentary
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Friday, 16 August 2013 23:54 (ten years ago) link
also http://piratemoggy.tumblr.com/post/58443637677/five-posts-about-that-one-direction-documentary-part and http://piratemoggy.tumblr.com/post/58451917375/five-posts-about-that-one-direction-fan-documentary and the next two whenever she posts them
basically just read everything hazel ever says
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Saturday, 17 August 2013 00:11 (ten years ago) link
also Amanda Hess who wrote about Larry shipping months ago: http://tomorrowthemag.com/articles/slash-and-burn
― Roz, Saturday, 17 August 2013 07:48 (ten years ago) link
So what song are they talking about? You know, "the best song ever"? They dance to it ALL NIGHT. What song could possibly be good enough to play again and again and again AND AGAIN AND AGAIN? AND DANCE TO? ALL NIGHT?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 13:21 (ten years ago) link
That one about Lucky.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 13:26 (ten years ago) link
we're up all night to dance to get lucky, all night
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 13:45 (ten years ago) link
"Like, I'm pretty sure Larryshippers, mostly have a reasonable level of belief that This Relationship Exists. "Spurious evidence" is kind of beside the point. Like I said upthread, these guys are deliberately allowing fans to cultivate their shipping fantasies. Evidence isn't an issue.
yeah, an interesting thing about one direction is how shipping-aware they seem to be. not sure whether this is a new thing -- shipping was around (HOLY SHIT WAS IT AROUND) for bsb/nsync but I'm not sure how much they played to it. for all I know they totally did and I just didn't notice it.
― katherine, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 17:47 (ten years ago) link
It's like these 1D fans have never heard of fanservice or something
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 22 August 2013 03:08 (ten years ago) link
"Best Song Ever" debuted in Billboard at number two, but then sunk into the bottom part of the top twenty in week number two and is now out of the top twenty in week number four. Haven't heard it on the radio.
― timellison, Monday, 26 August 2013 03:36 (ten years ago) link
It hasn't left the top 20 on iTunes since release, so at the very least, it's weekly sales have been relatively strong and consistent. But yeah radio seems hesitant to fully jump on board.
― Greer, Monday, 26 August 2013 05:43 (ten years ago) link
Came expecting to see a picture of a Joy Division t-shirt. Leaving disappointed.
― Matt M., Monday, 26 August 2013 23:00 (ten years ago) link
idg why VMA audience would boo them
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 26 August 2013 23:08 (ten years ago) link
Disgruntled Joy Division fans.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 07:58 (ten years ago) link
"best song ever" is surely their best song since "what makes you beautiful"
― dyl, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 14:00 (ten years ago) link
nah, "kiss you" is their best work
― monotony, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 14:04 (ten years ago) link
oh yeah, i do like that one too
― dyl, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 20:25 (ten years ago) link
We have a "Hit Music" station and a "Star" station in the city where I live. Looks like it's #43 on the former and not in the top 100 on the latter.
― timellison, Saturday, 31 August 2013 02:16 (ten years ago) link
so what's this movie like, is anyone going to go see it
i didn't go see the justin bieber movie or the katy perry one either
― dyl, Saturday, 31 August 2013 15:37 (ten years ago) link
these movies are all 'recent concert footage interspersed with adorable home movies of the performers singing as little kids' right?
― some dude, Saturday, 31 August 2013 16:03 (ten years ago) link
Why can't we have another spiceworld is what I'd like to know
― rooibos in disguise (wins), Saturday, 31 August 2013 16:06 (ten years ago) link
you want Elvis Costello in a One Direction movie?
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 31 August 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
Idk itvwas a pretty fun movie! As brit films of the nulab era go I like it more than oh trainspotting
― rooibos in disguise (wins), Saturday, 31 August 2013 16:17 (ten years ago) link
YES spiceworld is kind of wonderful
― dyl, Saturday, 31 August 2013 16:48 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgHWvu9rlG8
Gabriel AgbonlahorFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaTaking Out Twats is What This LAD does.Gabriel Imuetinyan "Gabby" Agbonlahor (born 13 October 1986) is an English footballer of Nigerian-Scottish heritage who plays for Aston Villa and also an arsehole for hurting our louis
Taking Out Twats is What This LAD does.
Gabriel Imuetinyan "Gabby" Agbonlahor (born 13 October 1986) is an English footballer of Nigerian-Scottish heritage who plays for Aston Villa and also an arsehole for hurting our louis
― 2 ℜ 4 u (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 9 September 2013 01:35 (ten years ago) link
A spew-inducing reducer. Beautiful.
― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Monday, 9 September 2013 05:18 (ten years ago) link
Shame that guy's knee joint only works in one direction.
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Monday, 9 September 2013 08:52 (ten years ago) link
:D
― ... Jenkinson ... ... military spending ... snkkt! ... Özil ... ... (imago), Monday, 9 September 2013 09:28 (ten years ago) link
I am privileged to have witnessed this first hand. Also, he runs like a girl.
― ailsa, Monday, 9 September 2013 20:34 (ten years ago) link
he must be in the bottom 5 players to have donned the hoops in your time, surely
― ... Jenkinson ... Neu! military spending ... snkkt! ... Özil ... ... (imago), Monday, 9 September 2013 20:35 (ten years ago) link
idk there ought to be some unwritten rule that random slebs in a charity football game are not to be treated the same as (ex)professionals or targeted for bantz inducing comedy violence
although im sure having spent a year in chemotherapy stiliyan petrov appreciated watching an emaciated dude being sick in front of him
― 2 ℜ 4 u (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 9 September 2013 20:41 (ten years ago) link
the camera angle just doesn't seem to show the impact.
― Wantaway striker (LocalGarda), Monday, 9 September 2013 20:42 (ten years ago) link
agbonlahor had 3 different women pregnant at the same time when aged 20 or something iirc, he's not known for reserve
― ... Jenkinson ... Neu! military spending ... snkkt! ... Özil ... ... (imago), Monday, 9 September 2013 20:44 (ten years ago) link
Right down there with Gerard Butler, aye.
― ailsa, Monday, 9 September 2013 21:37 (ten years ago) link
I can't find a good YouTube version to embed or anything but "Diana" off their new album is a jam.
― Murgatroid, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 21:49 (ten years ago) link
It is! A couple of the "rock" numbers are astonishingly confident; somebody's been listening to Def Leppard.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 21:50 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, some of them are a bit too reverent of the source material they're pulling from, but it's an interesting new approach from a band known for uptempo glossy power-pop and they mostly pull it off. Seems a few of current young popstars have one eye keenly on the rock acts of yesteryear between this album, Ke$ha's LP last year, and most of Demi Lovato's first two albums.
― Greer, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 21:56 (ten years ago) link
one track -- I forget which -- is the male version of Ke$ha's "Gold Trans Am," not like the world needed it.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 21:58 (ten years ago) link
Though "Diana" is still the "uptempo glossy power-pop" that Greer speaks of but it's pretty much the second best thing they've done in this vein (behind "Kiss You", of course).
― Murgatroid, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 21:59 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/aJbZF7I.png
― 龜, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 06:47 (ten years ago) link
completely behind this
― uberweiss, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 07:47 (ten years ago) link