A Thread for Hilarious RONG Things my Sociology of Pop Music Prof Says

has this perfesser ever played percussion for the rock band gay dad?

If you do just one thing for me in this life, HOOS, please get her to spin out her interpretation of "American Pie" and transcribe it for us all.

-- John Justen, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 18:51

We have already done this! She just gave us a lengthy and arcane spreadsheet. It was awesome.

Sorry about the delay, btw guys, internet went down on the entire campus today (?!).

"Tupac really was a big softie, his record company made him do all that thug stuff. Read interviews with the rappers, they'll tell you that the execs will turn them away if their lyrics aren't violent or misogynistic enough!"

"Kurt Cobain & Zach De La Rocha (Rage Against the Machine) had a lto in common, in that they both wanted their music to be a revolutionary call to political consciousness."

PLZ TO EMAIL ME LENGTHY AND ARCANE SPREADSHEET PLZ PLZ

"Kid Rock was really the 90s version of John Lennon, and 'Bawitdaba' was his 'Give Peace a Chance.'"

btw guys in case you are curious, here are the transcribed lyrics of the opening 1.5 minutes of "Bawitdaba," according to my course packet paid for in part by the citizens of the State of Texas.

Bawitdaba da bang a dang diggy diggy diggy said the boogie said up jump the boogie
Bawitdaba da bang a dang diggy diggy diggy said the boogie said up jump the boogie
Bawitdaba da bang a dang diggy diggy diggy said the boogie said up jump the boogie
Bawitdaba da bang a dang diggy diggy diggy said the boogie said up jump the boogie
Bawitdaba da bang a dang diggy diggy diggy said the boogie said up jump the boogie
My name is Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiddddddddddddddd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kid Rock!!!!!!!!
Bawitdaba da bang a dang diggy diggy diggy said the boogie said up jump the boogie
Bawitdaba da bang a dang diggy diggy diggy said the boogie said up jump the boogie
Bawitdaba da bang a dang diggy diggy diggy said the boogie said up jump the boogie
Bawitdaba da bang a dang diggy diggy diggy said the boogie said up jump the boogie

^ your tax dollars at work, people

I will have to scan spreadsheet etc etc but I will do my due diligence or whatever it's called.

"Of course, as we all know, Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopez left us in 1994 in a plane crash."

also can we please note that Bawitdaba actually sounded kind of awesome on auditorium speakers

"'Sing for the Moment' was really Eminem's artistic peak."

also can we please note that Bawitdaba actually is on awesome.

hoos making this shit up. she did not say that left eye shit.

"The black panther portion of 'Black or White' was really MJ expressing his frustration at separatists within the black community."

^ this would be fascinating if true, and i'm not sure, can anyone verify this

hoos making this shit up. she did not say that left eye shit.

-- J0rdan S., Thursday, November 29, 2007 1:38 AM

no lie holmes

i wasn't really feeling this tread up until 2 minutes ago. HOOS in '08

"Kid Rock was really the 90s version of John Lennon, and 'Bawitdaba' was his 'Give Peace a Chance.'"

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, November 29, 2007 1:31 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

ok you're taking the piss now!

"Kid Rock was really the 90s version of John Lennon, and 'Bawitdaba' was his 'Give Peace a Chance.'"

"Of course, as we all know, Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopez left us in 1994 in a plane crash."

Ok, I'm starting to think this is a hoax along the lines of that "I'm going to listen to some crap Sisters of Mercy 12" mix 1000 times in a row wish me luck" thread.

The first "factoid" sounds like it came out of a John Waters movie. And my nine year old niece could google the facts of Left Eye's death in two seconds. This is starting to smell fishy.

It's weird cause sometimes she'll say some really penetrating and insightful stuff about, say, "Anarchy in the U.K.," but then she follows it up with something 0_o like the Left Eye thing.

Guys this is all 1000% legit I shit you not. I will scan in copies of my handwritten transcriptions with some scanner somewhere.

"Kid Rock was really the 90s version of John Lennon, and 'Bawitdaba' was his 'Give Peace a Chance.'"

Her argument here was that "Bawitdaba" was really about how we all needed to learn to "love someone," no matter how unsavory they might seem on the outside.

"Of course, as we all know, Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopez left us in 1994 in a plane crash."

I chalked that one up to a verbal slip, cause we listened to "Unpretty" and it said "1999" in gigantic font on a huge screen. And maybe she was mixing up Left Eye with Aaliyah?

ok that would make sense

also plz take sanskrit up on the videocam offer

It's weird cause sometimes she'll say some really penetrating and insightful stuff about, say, "Anarchy in the U.K."

Well, what did she say about it?

And if you're lying, you have an extremely successful career in comedy ahead of you.

except that neither aaliyah nor left eye died in 1994. she basically combined the deaths of left eye, aaliyah and kurt cobain.

She also read us an apparent quote from Cobain at age 14, "I'm gonna grow up and be a rock star and then kill myself."

Does anybody have any idea where the hell this is documented?

The same place where she read that Left Eye died in a 1994 plane crash.

Well, what did she say about it?

She was talking about the band as being essentially a construction of McLaren, how when Lydon quit playing along he got Sid to be his puppet, etc etc. Nothing especially insightful in "ILM terms," (wow that makes me sound like a dick) but a total breath of fresh air after being inundated with incorrect factoids.

I bet. So I think someone asked this before but do you (or anyone else) ever politely raise your hand and say, "Actually, Ms. Pop Soc, Left Eye died in a crash in 2002"?

Yeah I was trying to correct her at first, myself and a couple others, but after a while we all gave up. Now if something is especially egregious and multi-layered WTFery (like Reznor inventing Industrial) I'll mention it after class.

Does she respond well to any of the corrections?

KJB WHY DO YOU HATE FUN SHUT UP

more funny plz

how the fuck is asking questions hating fun?

unless, you know, you're a pea-brain?

OH SNAP

it's not worth it, john.

(real answer - the endless stream of incredulity and demands for academic retribution on this dumb woman is missing the point of the thread, which is LAFFS)

hoos its time you started chiming in w/some lulz action of yr own! here we will help you:

"wouldnt you agree that its impossible to overstate the influence of british skiffle on late period stevie wonder"

"i find that the fact that elvis died while reading robert johnson's autobiography in the bathtub to be an interesting aside at best - its significance has been blown way out of proportion by contemporary musicologists!"

"lisa lisa and cult jam are the new supremes."

right, no actual thinking allowed. got it. (xpost)

Apparently not.

Did I not say that Hoos has a future in comedy if he's lying? Sheesh. And thanx, Matos.

Fwiw, I laughed out loud at this (too):

"she basically combined the deaths of left eye, aaliyah and kurt cobain."

O M G O M G O M G

stfu Kevin John Bozelka

I mean this shit is really really funny but it's also worrying that it's getting taught in a class to people who (as Kevin mentioned) are paying for it. A thread can contain both sentiments, honest.

(the fact that it's worrying is a lot of WHY it's funny)

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20030916/wd3.jpg

stfu Kevin John Bozelka

aw snowflake