Kanye West something something about letting Taylor finish

Say what you like about how useless and irrelevant this crap is, "Single Ladies" makes me want to dance. Or, at least, wish that I could.

/Does a fat ass count as a badunkadunk?

Can we all agree that Beyonce's song 'Halo' is one of the worst songs in the history of music?

Depressing, isn't it?

Beyonce is a talented singer and an incredible performer but damn, I absolutely hate her music. Has she ever done a song that won't be completely irrelevant in 5 years? I can't think of any. She deserves to have at least 1 hit that will become a classic. Otherwise she'll have the same kind of "legacy" as Britney Spears, albeit more talented and less crazy.

Hall and Oates got eated by kitteh?

Silversun Pickups nominated as best new artist? Best rock performance - Can't Find My Way Home by Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood? Best rock album - AC/DC's Black Ice? Wait On The Lord by
Donnie McClurkin Featuring Karen Clark Sheard nominated for best gospel performance for solo, duo, or group as collaborative???

Taylor singing in the shower:



/Taylor Swift fan
//ACM awards picture

deadsanta: Hall and Oates got eated by kitteh?

darn. came here to say that.

NO MORE SONGS ABOUT SARA!

/disco motherfarker!
//get your dick out of your heart!

Nom Nom?

Ctrl-F Animal Collective... No matches found.
Ctrl-F St. Vincent... No matches found.
Ctrl-F Japandroids... No matches found.
Ctrl-F Dirty Projectors... No matches found.
Ctrl-F Brad Paisley... 2 matches found.

One out of five is... pretty poor, actually.

Easily one of my favorite album covers ever.

Lloyd Braun: Silversun Pickups nominated as best new artist?

lol wut. I was confused, I thought there was no way. Silversun Pickups AND MGMT nominated for best new artist? Welcome to 2007, Grammy committee. Carnavas may not have been the biggest album of the year, but they had a hit and sold 350,000 copies and it was THREE YEARS AGO! What the hell does NEW mean? "We just now got around to listening to them, so technically, it's new to us!" These people have an iTunes playlist that just alternates between "Single Ladies" and "Poker Face".

Hatman013: NO MORE SONGS ABOUT SARA!

/disco motherfarker!
//get your dick out of your heart!

Your music scene is for pussies.

Kohl: Lloyd Braun: Silversun Pickups nominated as best new artist?

lol wut. I was confused, I thought there was no way. Silversun Pickups AND MGMT nominated for best new artist? Welcome to 2007, Grammy committee. Carnavas may not have been the biggest album of the year, but they had a hit and sold 350,000 copies and it was THREE YEARS AGO! What the hell does NEW mean? "We just now got around to listening to them, so technically, it's new to us!" These people have an iTunes playlist that just alternates between "Single Ladies" and "Poker Face".

"New" to AMPAS only means "we haven't nominated them for anything yet."

Fountains of Wayne got nominated for BNA when "Stacy's Mom" got popular, which was on their third album.

Aracnix: Say what you like about how useless and irrelevant this crap is, "Single Ladies" makes me want to dance. Or, at least, wish that I could.

Yeah, and that's fine. But song of the year? Really? It's one thing if radio stations want to play this thoughtless garbage around the clock to appeal to the masses, but it would be nice if the committee would listen to music that required actual talent and attempts to an art form.

I never really paid attention to the Grammy nominations until this year, and I won't again next year because this is a farking joke.

The who to the what now? How does Hall and Oates get a nom for Sara Smile NOW? Where was the nomination committee in 1976? Something about Rachel Ray was thrown in there, too.

Both Julia Fischer and Anne Sophie Mutter had pretty good Bach albums this year, but no nominations for either?

I guess the people in charge are getting tired of violinists after Hilary Hahn managed to make Arnold Schoenberg sound good last year (and then didn't have a new album this year).

I usually don't care for Mutter, but Fischer's Bach is always a treat.

OldManDownDRoad: I don't know what's more depressing: rock illiteracy at RS or the fact that their editors don't have access to Wikipedia.

Asking RS for any kind of journalistic accuracy about any music that came after the Baby Boomer era is like asking your grandmother to program your Tivo box. Ain't gonna happen. (But they will happily tell you that Sgt Peppers was the bestest album of all time.)

Aracnix: /Does a fat ass count as a badunkadunk?

Do you have a motor in the back of your honda?

Bag of Hammers: OldManDownDRoad: I don't know what's more depressing: rock illiteracy at RS or the fact that their editors don't have access to Wikipedia.

Asking RS for any kind of journalistic accuracy about any music that came after the Baby Boomer era is like asking your grandmother to program your Tivo box. Ain't gonna happen. (But they will happily tell you that Sgt Peppers was the bestest album of all time.)

Tru dat. RS is one large Boomer wankfest for music.Atomic Spunk: Beyonce is a talented singer and an incredible performer but damn, I absolutely hate her music. Has she ever done a song that won't be completely irrelevant in 5 years? I can't think of any. She deserves to have at least 1 hit that will become a classic. Otherwise she'll have the same kind of "legacy" as Britney Spears, albeit more talented and less crazy.

This is for you:

ALL THE SINGLE LADIES! All the single ladies!
ALL THE SINGLE LADIES! All the single ladies!
ALL THE SINGLE LADIES! All the single ladies!
ALL THE SINGLE LADIES! Now put your hands up!

Atomic Spunk: Beyonce is a talented singer and an incredible performer but damn, I absolutely hate her music. Has she ever done a song that won't be completely irrelevant in 5 years? I can't think of any. She deserves to have at least 1 hit that will become a classic. Otherwise she'll have the same kind of "legacy" as Britney Spears, albeit more talented and less crazy.

Has there been a single song in the past ten years that will be remembered by anyone in the next decade? If so, it won't be anything from any of the derivative pop garbage genre.

And you know what? I blame the Beatles. Sure, they wrote memorable music with a little bit of substance to it, but they (and Elvis) kicked off the idea that American and British folk music is about selling a brand instead of making art. Now every vapid moron thinks she deserves to be a star, and the sad thing is that with the right sort of marketing, most of them could be.

Every Sunday night on NPR, I listen to a short radio program called "Piano Puzzlers" where a guy plays a popular song in the style of a famous composer. This works because the famous composers actually wrote music. You can listen to something Beethoven didn't write and still tell that it's a song from a musical done in the style of a Beethoven piano sonata, because while Beethoven wrote a huge variety of stuff (a range pop "musicians" today don't even aspire to reach), he still had his own characteristic style in certain genres like the sonata.

Contrast with pop divas. Half Most of their songs don't even have music in the background, substituting instead some electronic noise loop with a drum machine. The most recent trend is to do away even with the singing, leaving... what, exactly? If I wanted to write a song in the style of Beyonce, how could I? There's no style to emulate. It's just repetitive junk with some electronically altered warbling of bad poetry.

How do these hacks make money? They make money by selling a brand ("Disney Pop Diva #234") to young brainless girls, who never learn to appreciate real music. This makes it possible to market further musical excrement to them as they get older, since they never learn that there is better stuff out there. Is there another explanation?

I can't even just ignore the situation, because I have to hear this stuff every time I go into Barnes & Noble or the grocery store. It sickens me.

The grammys hasn't been the same since Homer Simpson won one.

Despite my love of Classic Rock, Hip Hop, DnB, Dubstep, etc..., Sara Smile is still one of my all time favorite songs. Whenever it comes on, I turn it up. Never fails.

Dumb-Ass-Monkey: *sigh*

If it weren't for Justin Timberlake on SNL, nobody would give a rat's ass about the Single Ladies song or video.

/hate his music
//but think he's f*cking hilarious on SNL

Go to YouTube, type "Single Ladies" in the search box, then look at how many people don't "give a rat's ass" about that video. Love her or hate her, it's a pretty awesome video and that song is one of the catchiest pop songs to come out in a while.

SpaceLord: Hatman013: NO MORE SONGS ABOUT SARA!

/disco motherfarker!
//get your dick out of your heart!

Your music scene is for pussies.

Hey fellas, hey! FARK YOU!

Sirsky: Go to YouTube, type "Single Ladies" in the search box, then look at how many people don't "give a rat's ass" about that video. Love her or hate her, it's a pretty awesome video and that song is one of the catchiest pop songs to come out in a while.

It's an awful video. The only reason that there are so many copies of it are because it's so easy to duplicate. I've ranted on that video before, but I'll sum it up as this: it has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. The only one thing would have made it impressive without changing it would have been if it were a continuous shot from start to finish and it even fails there.

In other news, Wilco got nominated for best Americana album. Yay!

NetOwl:
And you know what? I blame the Beatles. Sure, they wrote memorable music with a little bit of substance to it, but they (and Elvis) kicked off the idea that American and British folk music is about selling a brand instead of making art.

A Day in the Life and Strawberry Fields Forever have little substance and aren't art? Seriously? They practically legitimized rock music as an art form instead of just some fad music that only teenagers listened to.

And the brand thing came in way before the Beatles. Try reading up on Tin Pan Alley or the Wall of Sound someday.

If you liked then you should have put a choke hold on it
If you liked then you should have put a choke hold on it
If you liked then you should have put a choke hold on it
If you liked then you should have put a choke hold on it

uh oh uh ohhh shut the fark up.

Lloyd Braun: Silversun Pickups nominated as best new artist? Best rock performance - Can't Find My Way Home by Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood? Best rock album - AC/DC's Black Ice? Wait On The Lord by
Donnie McClurkin Featuring Karen Clark Sheard nominated for best gospel performance for solo, duo, or group as collaborative???

Isn't Silversun Pickup's first album from 2006???

I'm sure some farker will know why this is a "new artist" to the "music industry".

"Broktun"

Bonanza Jellybean: I don't know what "shower singer Taylor Swift" means, but if there are pics...

yes, pics. kthxbye.

Sirsky: that song is one of the catchiest pop songs to come out in a while.

Aw hell naw. It's not even HER catchiest pop song this decade. "Crazy in Love" is light years ahead of it.

boko: NetOwl:
And you know what? I blame the Beatles. Sure, they wrote memorable music with a little bit of substance to it, but they (and Elvis) kicked off the idea that American and British folk music is about selling a brand instead of making art.

A Day in the Life and Strawberry Fields Forever have little substance and aren't art? Seriously? They practically legitimized rock music as an art form instead of just some fad music that only teenagers listened to.

And the brand thing came in way before the Beatles. Try reading up on Tin Pan Alley or the Wall of Sound someday.

Maybe they just made the problem worse.

I mean to emphasize, though, that unlike the pop music of today, their music had at least something to it (at least post-Rubber Soul). I don't find myself wanting to break something when I hear a Beatles song when I'm in a store. I cannot say the same thing about anything popular today.

Beatlemania marked the beginning of throngs of screaming musical idiots worshiping an image rather than a performance, and it was entirely a coincidence that the Beatles managed to write some good songs. They were beloved even before Revolver, but I wouldn't call any of their early stuff art. Most of it doesn't even qualify as good.

They're an easy target because no band before or since has been as popular as the Beatles, but I do think their ultimate effect on music has been negative (through no real fault of their own).

I'll see your Hall & Oats and raise you Monte Montgomery. (new window)

/His version is way better anyway. The song might as well belong to him.

I"m trying to figure out Brad Paisley being nominated for Best Rock Instrumental.

If you like "Single Ladies" even a little bit, you are what is wrong with the world. Not war, not famine, not disease, not prejudice - you.