In my defense, I was encouraged/instructed by one of our friends to go to the front of the room and take lots of pictures, which overrode your previous protest, which I didn't realize was a directive.xps
xps
This was me.
― carl agatha, Monday, 13 February 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
i think with the grammys i end up getting a little enraged by the vision of popular music presented by the show and how off it seems? i think i am skeeved out by the music industry more than the movie industry (irrationally). maybe i just care about music more.
― horseshoe, Monday, 13 February 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
but i guess i watch it because i'm obsessed with celebrities and an inveterate gossip.
― horseshoe, Monday, 13 February 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
i haven't started watching downton abbey yet, Jenny. i get such mixed reviews but mostly i know i would become addicted and watch 5 episodes a night.
As soon as I got to work this morning, two older female co-workers barraged me with overwhelming praise for the Grammys. Apparently, it was the best award show ever. Except they seemed a little befuddled by nikki minaj.
― the glass of beer (askance johnson), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
nicki minaj was definitely the high point just in terms of wtf is going on right now
― horseshoe, Monday, 13 February 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
Revised plans for my day off:
Sit on couch with cats and read. Roast cauliflower for lunch. Practice black eyeliner wings.
xp haha I'm befuddled by Nicki Minaj, tbh
― carl agatha, Monday, 13 February 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
i think with the grammys i end up getting a little enraged by the vision of popular music presented by the show and how off it seems?
this otm, it's all just a weird alternate music dimension where bon iver is the best new music of 2012 even though in our dimension his first album came out like four years ago
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
I mean she befuddles me and I did not watch the Grammys.
I was listening to her album on the train and the song where Eminen (I assume? I didn't look but it sounded like him) raps about killing all the women in the world came on and my mouth got very prim and I turned it off and felt very old.
― carl agatha, Monday, 13 February 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
I gave up hope of the grammy being "relevant" or "making sense" at some point in the mid-90s. I have still vaguely enjoyed watching some of them in the past few years though. It can be good Sunday night fare, while you are trying to forget how much you are dreading going back to work.
― the glass of beer (askance johnson), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
she makes me feel old, too. the grammy performance was very madonna circa like a prayer except with added weirdo minaj facial expressions.
xp
― horseshoe, Monday, 13 February 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
it's like the only people who care about the grammys are ... grammys (grandmothers)!
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
follow me on twitter for more quality jokes like that one
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
i'm totally not mad jesse! i was just giving you a hard time.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
i saved it and put it on flickr because it looks like a yeti sighting picture
the grammys are terrible but i think it's actually meaningful that a new orleans brass band won one this year
― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
I'm honestly not trying to come off as ignorant-of-pop-culture-cool but I don't even know who Adele is.
I say this as someone who purposefully introduced a couple of serious shit-pop fans to Kreayshawn recently.
― long duk dan (dan m), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYEDA3JcQqw
― carl agatha, Monday, 13 February 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
also she said, "the inspiration for this album was something we've all experienced...a rubbish relationship" and everyone laughed
― horseshoe, Monday, 13 February 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
I was trying to articulate why I don't care for her music but I just sound like me ~ 1992 (it's too produced, it's too polished, it's too cliche, it's all formula) and I get annoyed with myself, esp. since some of my favorite songs are genetically engineered in labs to be Super Pop Hits.
― carl agatha, Monday, 13 February 2012 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
Not nearly as bad as this stinker from 1990 though, not by a LONGSHOT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Dyouvtb98
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
rihanna's hair at the grammys was somewhat reminiscent of taylor dane to me
― horseshoe, Monday, 13 February 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
i was talking with sarah the other week about how it's weird how people describe certain songs as "unescapable" (like rollin in the deep) and i have almost never heard them. i didn't hear RITD until curiosity led me to pull it up on youtube. basically because i never listen to radio or watch music television.
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
I hear a lot of stuff off my random spotify playlists.
― Jeff, Monday, 13 February 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
not being snooty, just don't have a car stereo or drive much anymore and that was how i used to hear popular music.
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
Her music is not my thing, but Adele herself seems charming and appealing as a person.I listen to the radio kind of a lot in the car. I love singing to pop hits in the car! No one can hear me.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
ok I recognize the Adele song
for some reason it reminds me of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS870zCCAwM
― long duk dan (dan m), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
ie karaoke nightmare
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
rollin in the deep is great, but the other stuff i've heard is pretty boring even though it has the best drummer in the world (chris dave).
― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
Ohhhhhh hey, Alannah Myles. Maybe that's part of the problem for me. Adele's particular brand of pop reminds me of pop songs I hated in the past.
I normally don't put this much thought into why I don't like something but seriously, outside of you all (which maybe I should have come to you with this first) it seems like everybody I know loves this woman's music.
Fun fact: I won that Alannah Myles tape from a radio station when I was in high school. It was the least offensive thing on offer in their "prize closet" (not a euphemism).
― carl agatha, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I don't care who wins the Grammys, but it was fun to watch the over-the-top and/or batshit performances -- which, let's be honest, constitutes most of the ceremony -- and acceptance speeches. (Bon Iver's speech basically carried the subtext that the Grammys are kind of bullshit.)
― jaymc, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
This was basically Bon Iver's point, if I understood him correctly.
― jaymc, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
yes but he annoyed me too
― horseshoe, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
like, don't even come, then
/irrational
― horseshoe, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah. It's funny how everyone has different yardsticks when it comes to this stuff. Like, in my experience, "Rolling in the Deep" was pretty GD popular. But a few weeks ago on ILM, people were SHOCKED that I had never heard the latest (supposedly inescapable) Chris Brown or DJ Khaled tracks, and I was like, sorry!
― jaymc, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
I never hear anything unless I actively seek it out on the internets. I did hear rolling in the deep once in the car though, and I liked it. People who think certain songs are actually literally inescapable are probably just assholes.
― the glass of beer (askance johnson), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
i think it depends on which radio station you listen to/if you listen to radio stations at all. the only tolerable station in buffalo is the r&b/rap one so chris brown and dj khaled are inescapable but i hadn't heard rolling in the deep until i saw it performed on lol glee.
― horseshoe, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
i'm going to be honest: i often daydream about winning a big award like a grammy or oscar so i can imagine how i would turn down that award. like just not show up? make a long annoying speech? or go weird, like marlon brando?
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
"accidentally" break it?
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
just seems like it would be fun. you've got to pick your moment though, it's pretty much something you can do once and then expect to never get nominated for anything else again.
you could plan a wardrobe "malfunction"
― the glass of beer (askance johnson), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
Go balls out and refuse the award. Literally. With your balls out.
re: Bon Iver, and I know I've mentioned this before here, it makes me think of a Jeanine Garaffolo bit (that I think was aired as a commercial on MTV? which is p lol all things considered) in which she gave Eddie Vedder the business for going to some awards show and making a bit show of how he thought the award sucked instead of just staying home.
― carl agatha, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I only listen to the radio when I'm driving, and I pretty much only drive on weekends, and most of the time I'm flipping between WXRT (the AAA station) and B96/Kiss 103.5 (Top 40). So there's plenty of stuff I miss. (NB: B96 is a "rhythmic Top 40" station, which means that their playlists definitely lean way more R&B/rap than anything else, but I think that there are a bunch of songs in those genres that you're far more likely to encounter on actual genre-specific stations like Power 92 or WGCI.)
― jaymc, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
I did read that bon iver was invited to perform at the grammys but he declined or something
― the glass of beer (askance johnson), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
Earlier this month, Vernon told Billboard magazine that he refused to play at the Grammys because the executives — who were generally "awesome people" — had asked them to do a collaboration, while he’d intended to perform original music."F—in' rock n' roll should not be decided by people that have that job," he told the magazine. "Rock ’n’ roll should be f—ing people with guitars around their backs."
― the glass of beer (askance johnson), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
Says the man who did a guest appearance on the last Kanye West album.
― jaymc, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
So if I fuck someone with a guitar around their back, that's rock and roll?
― carl agatha, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
I don't understand how you could miss Rolling in the Deep if you have been in a grocery store, bar, restaurant, gym, office, Best Buy, or any other store in the last year. It is playing on Muzak everywhere, all the time.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
Go up there in a silver hooded jumpsuit and then strip down to a pink leotard and black tightsoh wait
And yeah, I hear these songs out and about too, like in the grocery store, etc. I do a lot of errands though. I was just thinking that my main accomplishment in life may be "she carried many heavy bags of stuff from one place to another".
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link