The Vent and Rant Thread

[maianhvk]

Originally Posted by Ditchleyportrait

never expected to say this, but hip hop is dead, it really is.

were you talking about Em?

[DixieGal]

Originally Posted by Ditchleyportrait

never expected to say this, but hip hop is dead, it really is.

Britney Spears killed it on the day that heck froze over and she launched her successful comeback by wailing in that horrible fake baby voice, "DJ wha'chu wha'chu waitin' for."

[maianhvk]

I just killed a cockroach. By his size, I guess he was teenage. I feel so horrible.

[wodin]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

I was woken up at an ungodly hour this morning (8 am on a Saturday) by my neighbors - having their house pressure-washed. Guess they're going to have it painted. The noise of their generator blasted me out of bed and scattered the cats to points unknown.

Ah ha! A coinkidink! My neighbors are doing that too. They're the ones with the loud barking dogs, so it's hard to notice any difference in the noise level though.

[wodin]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

Err...... 'scuse me.... Perhaps there is a bit of a historical (hysterical) misunderstanding going on.....

Cinco de Mayo is observed to commemorate the Mexican army's victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín. Which actually makes almost as little sense as celebrating the margarita... no disrespect to the margarita intended.
It just wasn't that important a battle in the overall scheme of things going on in Mexico in those days, though it was a morale boost to the Mexican army and the Mexican people. But in less than a year, the French completely overran Mexico, deposed it's ruler and took possession.

Might as well celebrate a margarita...


Stitchawl

So why isn't French the predominant language in Mexico?

[pholy]

Because the Second Mexican Empire only lasted three or four years - hardly long enough to notice!

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Ditchleyportrait

never expected to say this, but hip hop is dead, it really is.

So what's next?

[Ditchleyportrait]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

So what's next?

my thought is that the newer generations will turn to more organic music and more local music. the new generations will be more into real musicians making real music to pitch. i think the electric guitar will be more sparse. ppl are tired of the over-amplification, the gain, the drug lifestyle, the synthetic music that comes off a keyboard, not real instruments. woodwinds, violins, acoustic instruments i think will be more welcome.

hip hop has devolved so much in the last couple years it's resorted to self-parody. comedians and jocular artists are the only ones making listenable rap music these days.

production has changed. before it was nice to hear a synth-pop song, because it had ACTUAL, real percussion instead of drum machines.

in short, i'll think we'll be seeing a return to craft because fewer artists can make a solid living off of pumping dreck into the top 40 charts today. nobody buys music.

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by wodin

So why isn't French the predominant language in Mexico?

Have YOU ever tried to learn to conjugate French verbs!

Stitchawl

[wodin]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

Have YOU ever tried to learn to conjugate French verbs!

Stitchawl

You have a point!

[Freeshadow]

Originally Posted by Ditchleyportrait

my thought is that the newer generations will turn to more organic music and more local music. the new generations will be more into real musicians making real music to pitch. i think the electric guitar will be more sparse. ppl are tired of the over-amplification, the gain, the drug lifestyle, the synthetic music that comes off a keyboard, not real instruments. woodwinds, violins, acoustic instruments i think will be more welcome.

I wish you were right.

in short, i'll think we'll be seeing a return to craft because fewer artists can make a solid living off of pumping dreck into the top 40 charts today. nobody buys music.

Zbigniew Wodecki (polish chansonnier) said in an interview when asked about the quality of contemporaray music: "In the past we had songs - now we have charts."

[DixieGal]

I love pop music.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

I love pop music.

Of course you do.

[SolRaven]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

I love pop music.

Me too!

[wodin]

Originally Posted by Ditchleyportrait

never expected to say this, but hip hop is dead, it really is.

You sure couldn't tell by the rolling boom boxes on the freew ... uh ... parking lot on the daily afternoon commute. It's a real shame to have to close the windows and run the AC just to be able to hear my civilized music!