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

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)

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stfu Kevin John Bozelka

aw snowflake

"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!"

LOL!!!!!!! Crying! Snot coming out of nose! Choking on cold turkey hot dogs! Rolling around on floor like Marge Simpsons wondering what would happen if Lynda Carter and George Foreman had a baby!

There. Ya happy?

just one Marge Simpson

ty better maybe next time mountain dew could come out yr nose tho?

Snot comes out much less painfully.

Also in the fwiw category: If I could pick the way I die, it would be from laughter. Apparently, some woman eons ago could not stop laughing at a costume from a performance of The Threepenny Opera. She was asked to leave the theatre at intermission and literally could not stop laughing for a week unitl she just expired. That's the way to go.

which is a signal for MORE STORIES PLZ HOOS

Or more fake ones, jhøshea.

This:

The film and the song '9 to 5' really did more for the cuase of women than all the marches of the 60s and 70s combined."

is way more insightful (and interesting) than this:

the band as being essentially a construction of McLaren, how when Lydon quit playing along he got Sid to be his puppet

HOOS, my sole question at this point -- what OTHER classes does she teach?

And yeah, some documentation, audio, visual, to add to the notes would be entertaining/horrifying (for all the reasons Matos mentions).

i had a philosophy prof in college that would play stuff like autechre and red krayola before class started to get us "in the mood". pretty cool, but he would get a little pissy cuz i could usually identify what he was playing.

Ok guys I'm back from dinner, but out of stories for the evening. Only one class day left! I feel like I've been depriving everyone.

HOOS, my sole question at this point -- what OTHER classes does she teach?

Social Stratification (took it with her this summer)
Sociology of Pop Culture (great class, glad I didn't take it with her)

ask her why michael jackson bleached himself and how it related to nirvana's bleach

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.

So your teacher is getting her rock crit theory from the teenage emo kids at altpress.com forums?

This issue always bugs me so: FUCK THAT NOISE.

"System of a Down's first single was 'Bang Bang Bang' "

TS: Raekwon vs. RZA 8 diagrams who was right

How old is she?

(plz to note this is a 60 year old woman that is talking here)

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, November 26, 2007 1:24 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

is this her?

E-stalking HOOS' professors is kind of O_o.

I love the fake quotes that have come up so far (sort of like another couple threads of that sort I've seen here) and think those should continue.

xp:
Stalking?

Anyway, ppl asking.
please post a picture of this man

-- El Tomboto, Monday, November 26, 2007 9:22 PM (3 days ago)
How old is she?

-- roxymuzak, Thursday, November 29, 2007 5:46 AM (56 minutes ago)
etc.

In a kind of incredible turn today, though, she told us that one of her former students was best friends with Jeremy Wade Dell, the kid that "Jeremy" is about. He emailed her after class and told her, then brought in and let her make a copy of what was effectively his suicide letter. She read it out loud to us. It was intense.

so what you're saying is that, in a way, Jeremy spoke in class today?

"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!"
Obviously she is unaware of, or chooses to ignore, Willie Nelson's words on the subject.

ask her why michael jackson bleached himself and how it related to nirvana's bleach

actual lol at this ^

no one email her this thread until HOOS gets his grade. show some heart people.

wait? is she aware of this Internet thing? If so, has it changed music? I believe The Prodigy were the band who invented it with their shocking "electro-rock." Heavily influenced by the Cars, the first synth-pop group. Greg Hawkes was the inventor of the synthesizer. Well, he established it as the "premier instrument of its day."

"The Clash were an enormous influence on the newly discovered reggae movement, and artists like Bob Marley, Burning Spear, and Sting."

OMG. I just realized: Burning Spear = Britney Spears! Holy shit, the conspiracy has been uncovered!

tell her Madness invented ska

Did the Beatles invent British music?

And what is the difference between Jass-Rock and Jazz-Rock?

Did David Crosby create Freebase Rock?

And to the poster who offered up that brilliant analysis of Girls Just Want to Have Fun, YOU deserve to teach this course. Your local community college would be lucky to have you.

BTW, where is this wonderful class happening?