Did I miss the joke or am I just getting old????
So Friday night, I went to "The Late Night Show with Michael Armendariz"
(for those of you who dont live in Bakersfield, Michael is a friend of mine with a late night talk show at the local theater here in town)
. And as part of his show he plays this music video from someone named Rebecca Black. I had no idea who this was, and after hearing her music, I realized that not only is ignorance bliss....ITS FUCKING UTOPIA!!!
What followed was the most annoying, nasal voiced teeny bopper bullshit that I have ever heard. Have you ever heard something that was so annoying that it made you angry? Like the sound of a baby crying in a crowded resturant, and the parents are completely oblivious, and you just want to walk up and punch the parents in the ear. Thats how this song made me feel. But what was amazing to me was how a section of Michael's audience was singing along to this bullshit.
Now maybe they really enjoyed this song, maybe they were making fun of it. Maybe it was the bottle of Crown Royal that I saw them passing around before the show started....I dont know. But my only thought was, "Is everyone already in on this joke, but me?" The show went on and I put this less than enjoyable experience behind me. Michael's show was great and I had a lot of fun. I thought my encounter with Rebecca Black was behind me. NOPE! I heard this fucking song all fucking weekend.
Let me say it loud, please pay attention because I dont want to say it again. I DONT GET IT!!!! There are certain things about today's culture that I dont like, but I understand. I dont like Justin Bieber, but I understand why he is so famous. The girls think he is cute so his managment plasters his name and face all over everything before the Bieber gravy train comes screeching to a halt. Good for them, thats what management is supposed to do.
I dont like Lady Gaga, but I get it. She is fucking insane and nothing fuels a career like a touch of insanty. So she took the Madonna handbook about how to get famous with more controversy than talent, and she ran with it. Good for her, I get it.
Sadly, I even get Jersey Shore. MTV has been putting out shit programming for 20 fucking years. It started with the Real World and just "Shit-Balled" from there. MTV hasnt been relevent since the early 90's. But out of nowhere they roll out this show about a bunch of New York Guido's and Stella's, they liquored them up and let them run wild. MTV filmed this "monkey shit fight at the zoo", gave it a thursday night timeslot, and people tuned-in in droves so they could feel better about their own lives. I GET IT!!!!
What I dont get is why the fuck is Rebecca Black all over the fucking place? The song is so bad that even Autotune said "Fuck it, there's nothing I can do about this". Rebecca Black isnt cute enough to overcome how bad this song is. She doesnt have a media giant, like Disney for example, backing her up on this one. So why the fuck do I know the name Rebecca Black?
Then it dawned on me, Am I just getting old? Have I reached the age where I start saying things like, "what is this crap? That isnt music, its just noise." My parents were around for the Beatles, Led Zepplin, The Doors, Earth Wing & Fire, Parliment Funkadelic. All excellent bands, but when I started listening to Guns 'N Roses or Metallica, they didnt get it. The music industry had passed them by. I was born in the 70's, lived through the 80's, survived the 90's and was a horrified bystander in the 2000's. I thought I had seen the worst the music industry had to offer. The 90's, for God's sake, was mostly shit. Remember when every band sounded like Pearl Jam. One Pearl Jam is fine, 15 of those fuckers and Im ready to kill the next flannel-wearing fuck wits that I see.
Remember the late 90's/early 2000's where every fucking record label had to have a boy band? How many of those piece of shit boy bands came and went? I lost count. I have even put up with that prime time high school talent show known as American Idol. I thought this was the depths of shit and we had finally hit rock bottom. And the best thing about hittingt rock bottom is that it can't get any worse. And then.......
FFRIIIIDAAYYYY FFRIIIDAAYYY GOTTA GET DOWN ON FFRIIIDAYYYY!!!!!!!!
WHAT THE FUCK!!!!! Thats it, Im done,BUH BYE!! I had a good run. I lived through Vinyl, 8-tracks, Cassettes, and CD's. My ipod has 4000 songs on it, I think thats good. Just remember, I warned you. Just like Guns 'N Roses' cover of Sympathy for the Devil was the soundtrack for the band breaking up, Rebecca Black will be the soundtrack of the music industry collapsing and California breaking off and falling into the ocean. And Ill be sitting on the front porch of my new beach front house in Arizona bay, with a bottle of Jack Daniels and listening to some AC/DC and some Rob Zombie. Cackling my drunk ass off and just saying,"See? I told you fuckers" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
So Friday night, I went to "The Late Night Show with Michael Armendariz"
(for those of you who dont live in Bakersfield, Michael is a friend of mine with a late night talk show at the local theater here in town)
. And as part of his show he plays this music video from someone named Rebecca Black. I had no idea who this was, and after hearing her music, I realized that not only is ignorance bliss....ITS FUCKING UTOPIA!!!
What followed was the most annoying, nasal voiced teeny bopper bullshit that I have ever heard. Have you ever heard something that was so annoying that it made you angry? Like the sound of a baby crying in a crowded resturant, and the parents are completely oblivious, and you just want to walk up and punch the parents in the ear. Thats how this song made me feel. But what was amazing to me was how a section of Michael's audience was singing along to this bullshit.
Now maybe they really enjoyed this song, maybe they were making fun of it. Maybe it was the bottle of Crown Royal that I saw them passing around before the show started....I dont know. But my only thought was, "Is everyone already in on this joke, but me?" The show went on and I put this less than enjoyable experience behind me. Michael's show was great and I had a lot of fun. I thought my encounter with Rebecca Black was behind me. NOPE! I heard this fucking song all fucking weekend.
Let me say it loud, please pay attention because I dont want to say it again. I DONT GET IT!!!! There are certain things about today's culture that I dont like, but I understand. I dont like Justin Bieber, but I understand why he is so famous. The girls think he is cute so his managment plasters his name and face all over everything before the Bieber gravy train comes screeching to a halt. Good for them, thats what management is supposed to do.
I dont like Lady Gaga, but I get it. She is fucking insane and nothing fuels a career like a touch of insanty. So she took the Madonna handbook about how to get famous with more controversy than talent, and she ran with it. Good for her, I get it.
Sadly, I even get Jersey Shore. MTV has been putting out shit programming for 20 fucking years. It started with the Real World and just "Shit-Balled" from there. MTV hasnt been relevent since the early 90's. But out of nowhere they roll out this show about a bunch of New York Guido's and Stella's, they liquored them up and let them run wild. MTV filmed this "monkey shit fight at the zoo", gave it a thursday night timeslot, and people tuned-in in droves so they could feel better about their own lives. I GET IT!!!!
What I dont get is why the fuck is Rebecca Black all over the fucking place? The song is so bad that even Autotune said "Fuck it, there's nothing I can do about this". Rebecca Black isnt cute enough to overcome how bad this song is. She doesnt have a media giant, like Disney for example, backing her up on this one. So why the fuck do I know the name Rebecca Black?
Then it dawned on me, Am I just getting old? Have I reached the age where I start saying things like, "what is this crap? That isnt music, its just noise." My parents were around for the Beatles, Led Zepplin, The Doors, Earth Wing & Fire, Parliment Funkadelic. All excellent bands, but when I started listening to Guns 'N Roses or Metallica, they didnt get it. The music industry had passed them by. I was born in the 70's, lived through the 80's, survived the 90's and was a horrified bystander in the 2000's. I thought I had seen the worst the music industry had to offer. The 90's, for God's sake, was mostly shit. Remember when every band sounded like Pearl Jam. One Pearl Jam is fine, 15 of those fuckers and Im ready to kill the next flannel-wearing fuck wits that I see.
Remember the late 90's/early 2000's where every fucking record label had to have a boy band? How many of those piece of shit boy bands came and went? I lost count. I have even put up with that prime time high school talent show known as American Idol. I thought this was the depths of shit and we had finally hit rock bottom. And the best thing about hittingt rock bottom is that it can't get any worse. And then.......
FFRIIIIDAAYYYY FFRIIIDAAYYY GOTTA GET DOWN ON FFRIIIDAYYYY!!!!!!!!
WHAT THE FUCK!!!!! Thats it, Im done,BUH BYE!! I had a good run. I lived through Vinyl, 8-tracks, Cassettes, and CD's. My ipod has 4000 songs on it, I think thats good. Just remember, I warned you. Just like Guns 'N Roses' cover of Sympathy for the Devil was the soundtrack for the band breaking up, Rebecca Black will be the soundtrack of the music industry collapsing and California breaking off and falling into the ocean. And Ill be sitting on the front porch of my new beach front house in Arizona bay, with a bottle of Jack Daniels and listening to some AC/DC and some Rob Zombie. Cackling my drunk ass off and just saying,"See? I told you fuckers" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA