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R.I.P music

#65
I think it's funny that people everyone seems to be pointing out this music as the end of music, as if Ke$ha and Katy Perry have been coming out with meaningful music. I have yet to understand what makes this song any worse than anything else that has been playing on the radio.
 
#66
superbassman2000 said:
I think it's funny that people everyone seems to be pointing out this music as the end of music, as if Ke$ha and Katy Perry have been coming out with meaningful music. I have yet to understand what makes this song any worse than anything else that has been playing on the radio.
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Ke$ha and Katy Perry destroy this chick a hundred times over, no I'm not kidding :D.
 
#68
superbassman2000 said:
I think it's funny that people everyone seems to be pointing out this music as the end of music, as if Ke$ha and Katy Perry have been coming out with meaningful music. I have yet to understand what makes this song any worse than anything else that has been playing on the radio.
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False premise--no one implied those two were putting out meaningful music.

The other songs on the radio suck. This one sucks harder.


(Yeah, Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah-Ark)
Oo-ooh-ooh, hoo yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Yeah-ah-ah
Yeah-ah-ah
Yeah-ah-ah
Yeah-ah-ah
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Seven a.m., waking up in the morning
Gotta be fresh, gotta go downstairs
Gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal
Seein' everything, the time is goin'
Tickin' on and on, everybody's rushin'
Gotta get down to the bus stop
Gotta catch my bus, I see my friends (My friends)

Kickin' in the front seat
Sittin' in the back seat
Gotta make my mind up
Which seat can I take?

It's Friday, Friday
Gotta get down on Friday
Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend, weekend
Friday, Friday
Gettin' down on Friday
Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend

Partyin', partyin' (Yeah)
Partyin', partyin' (Yeah)
Fun, fun, fun, fun
Lookin' forward to the weekend

7:45, we're drivin' on the highway
Cruisin' so fast, I want time to fly
Fun, fun, think about fun
You know what it is
I got this, you got this
My friend is by my right, ay
I got this, you got this
Now you know it

Kickin' in the front seat
Sittin' in the back seat
Gotta make my mind up
Which seat can I take?

It's Friday, Friday
Gotta get down on Friday
Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend, weekend
Friday, Friday
Gettin' down on Friday
Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend

Partyin', partyin' (Yeah)
Partyin', partyin' (Yeah)
Fun, fun, fun, fun
Lookin' forward to the weekend

Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday
Today i-is Friday, Friday (Partyin')
We-we-we so excited
We so excited
We gonna have a ball today

Tomorrow is Saturday
And Sunday comes after ... wards
I don't want this weekend to end

R-B, Rebecca Black
So chillin' in the front seat (In the front seat)
In the back seat (In the back seat)
I'm drivin', cruisin' (Yeah, yeah)
Fast lanes, switchin' lanes
Wit' a car up on my side (Woo!)
(C'mon) Passin' by is a school bus in front of me
Makes tick tock, tick tock, wanna scream
Check my time, it's Friday, it's a weekend
We gonna have fun, c'mon, c'mon, y'all

It's Friday, Friday
Gotta get down on Friday
Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend, weekend
Friday, Friday
Gettin' down on Friday
Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend

Partyin', partyin' (Yeah)
Partyin', partyin' (Yeah)
Fun, fun, fun, fun
Lookin' forward to the weekend

It's Friday, Friday
Gotta get down on Friday
Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend, weekend
Friday, Friday
Gettin' down on Friday
Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend

Partyin', partyin' (Yeah)
Partyin', partyin' (Yeah)
Fun, fun, fun, fun
Lookin' forward to the weekend
 
#69
GregC said:
False premise--no one implied those two were putting out meaningful music.

The other songs on the radio suck. This one sucks harder.
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I am not saying this song doesn't suck, I am merely saying that if people are proclaiming this is the death of music, then it must have been alive before this song came out. The pop music scene that existed for the few years before this song came out have been dominated by lady gaga, katy perry, ke$ha, and the boy bands and whatnot who have been feeding us the same drivel long before this song was a twinkle in a producer's eye. This song is as bubblegum and disposable as tik tok, california gurls or heck, even Henry the 8th. This isn't news lol if anything, it's just that once a year or so song that comes out to lower our expectations so low so that pop artists can get worse and we don't notice because we are fixated on the "really bad one"
 
#72
Kwesi said:
Ke$ha and Katy Perry destroy this chick a hundred times over, no I'm not kidding :D.
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in what way? are they less auto-tuned than she is? did rebecca black write less of her music than katy perry did? Is Ke$ha's songs about getting drunk better than Rebecca Black's songs about partying on the weekend? I am not saying any of these singers are better than another, in fact I am saying just the opposite--none of them are better than any other. It's all disposible pop with the intention of selling a million singles, getting their money and moving one. My issue with the whole thing is that Black is getting singled out as the worst, when they all are equally forgettable.
 
#74
Kwesi said:
Ke$ha and Katy Perry destroy this chick a hundred times over, no I'm not kidding :D.
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For realz, yo. Heck, I actually like a lot of Katy Perry, Ke$ha, and Lady Gaga music. It's really fun music to dance to when you're at a club and are grinding up on college girls who've decided that they wanna be your Teenage Dream, so they Take it Off for a little bit of a Bad Romance ;)
 
#78
I always have to smile when TBers get upset about the "state of music" when the music in question is aimed at preteens. New Kids on the Block didn't kill music. Neither did N'sync (sp?) and neither will this. What it WILL do is move a lot of product to kids that don't know that it's schlock.

The last three videos I watched before clicking on this thread:
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YouTube - James Blake - I'll Stay
YouTube - Mogwai - You're Lionel Richie

Not for everyone but to me these are examples of people who have and are moving music forward. Right now is a wonderful time to be a music fan. The barriers to entry in the record business are at an all time low. Anyone can record and promote their music freely and there is an immense amount of great stuff available. The hard part is doing the work to find the stuff that really moves you. But even that I enjoy.
 

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