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Kiskaloo wrote:

Probit Return wrote:Daisuke Ishiwatari and Hironobu Kageyama (Bang Shishigami)- Bang Your Nail With Your Hammer/ Bang Install (Fu-Rin-Ka-Zan Activation)

To rid this world of evil... I will become... The Hammer of Justice!

(Song by Peter, Paul and Mary. Performed by Leonard Nimoy)

As of 0:36 of that video...I must get me an XB360.

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DAMN YOU HALO!!!

I'm going to go into a bit of musical discussion, so if this sort of thing isn't your bag, tl;dr it and skip the post.

Someone pointed me towards the recent South Park episode where Cartman sings Lady Gaga's "Poker Face." It was pretty funny, as always. Then they made the comment "Ugh, why do people like Lady Gaga's music?"

For a moment, I thought about it. To be completely honest, I don't exactly think her music is that good. It can be catchy and in the right atmosphere enjoyable to listen to. It's a weird situation. Part of the argument against the music was how it was all synth, bass, and simplistic lyrics.

The rebuttal was that the thumping bass beat and simplistic lyrics is part of what makes it popular. It is, after all, a club/dance song. It's pretty easy to move to, and everyone knows what you get when you mix a rhythmic club song and inebriated girls. They're going to be bumping and grinding all over the dance floor. So that explains the girl's part. Girl's just like dancing in clubs, it's pretty standard.

Now, why guys like it: Re-read the last few sentences of the last paragraph. Guys like it, cause the girls like dancing to it.

Finally, as to whether or not the music is good, that's up for debate. I will say however that Lady Gaga is a good musician, regardless of what her songs sound like. She's an experienced pianist, as this live acoustic version of one of her songs prove.



I could talk all day about music and stuff like that, but I'll save it for another post. Wrote too much as it is.

there's competent, and then there's actually good.

...I'd say that chick is competent at playing the ol' piano, she's also a competent writer/producer of music...
as you said, what she's actually good at is giving the kids what they want.
I won't lie, I dislike her music... I find the fact that it sells like proverbial hotcakes to be sickening (even to someone I live with...ugh) while there's plenty of real talent out there just barely making ends meet. But hell, that's the world we live in. Who am I to tell it what to do?
...hell, for that matter, who am I to talk? I'm listening to Sublime right now