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[andrewducker]

"SpinVFX Game of Thrones season 3" (Watch on YouTube)

Comments

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

cool vid - but good god, is that really an actual released-on-record (or whatever they do these days) song??? F*ck me, I (and many others) am trying too hard on both the songwriting and vocals fronts....

[andrewducker]

Number one in eleven countries, including nine weeks at number one in the USA:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tik_Tok_%28song%29

You have noticed that most lyrics in pop music are bloody awful, right?

[broin.livejournal.com]

But were obviously much, much better when one was a teenager.

[andrewducker]

Clearly you were a teenager in a different reality to me. Maybe the Irish pop charts didn't have Bros and Kylie :->

[broin.livejournal.com]

Your sarcasm detector needs recalibrating. :p

(hence when _one_ was a teenager)

(sorry :) )

[andrewducker]

No, I could spot that. I just didn't really like pop music when I was a kid. It wasn't until I lived with Hal that I got converted to liking that kind of thing. Which may explain why I own a copy of Spiceworld.

[broin.livejournal.com]

I blame that guy for my poor molars. Bloody Hal!

And ah - I get you. =) I suppose I feel that pop music - really zeitgeisty stuff - should unsettle once you're past 30. It's not for you any more.

I made a couple of friends recently who were 20-ish and who idolise the music of the late 80s and early 90s. 'cept what they're actually idolising is all the stuff that made it onto compilation albums. Not the hundreds of atrocious SAW tunes, lame grunge, third tier hair rock etc.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, looking back at it there's awesome stuff from every decade, but lots of shite to go with it. It's much easier to love a decade with a filter to sieve out the best of it.

Not sure what the zeitgeist is at the moment. Not being paying that much attention to it (only album I've listened to recently from the last few years is the most recent Linkin Park one, having heard it was a big departure from their earlier stuff).

[hfnuala.livejournal.com]

And the tune is pretty much the same as Just Dance. Which is much better bad pop.

[pigwotflies.livejournal.com]

And the bassline/hooky thing sounds like Katy Perry/Snoop Dog's California Gurls.

I like bubblegum pop. :)

[andrewducker]

I like it sometimes. It can be very good fun to dance to.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

Really? Gosh.

It's the overall impression that's cr@p. It sounds kinda amateur. The vocals are dire in quality, even autotune-effected to the bollox (which I know is/was popular, which is fine effects go in and out fo fashion). She can't really sing as such, and, more importantly they haven't gone to any much effort to disguise it, or to make her sound good. (the alternative is that she can in fact sing but was told not to!) I assume she is extremely good looking! Mayube that's the style and I am just an old fogey :-)

It's not just pop though, rock lyrics (mine included) can be pretty banal too (not to mention sometimes downright awful!).

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

ah yes - just looked at the vid. Beauty overcomes a lot, eh?

[andrewducker]

She's not really my type, but one assumes so.

But people so seem to like their bubblegum pop :->

[broin.livejournal.com]

Amateur, trashy, decadent - very in. 'Can't' sing, can't dance, look awful. You'll go a long way'. Etc etc.

[andrewducker]

Oh - original video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_AAn24fEk8

Alas, even UK gets content Canada doesn't

[lpetrazickis.livejournal.com]

"This video contains content from Sony Music Entertainment. It is not available in your country."