WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO MY ROCK N ROLL?

[LMNO]

And they have DEVO II!

I lost a lot of respect for Devo when they initially endorsed this.

In that case, you need to read more about DEVO.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

And they have DEVO II!

I lost a lot of respect for Devo when they initially endorsed this.

Mark Mothersbaugh is a card-carrying SubGenius.  When he got out of the biz, he squeezed the last few drops of money out of it.

This is Dobbs-Approved behavior.  Yeah, they're Pink, but their money is still green.

[Requia ☣]

http://www.billboard.com/charts/heatseekers-songs#/charts/heatseekers-songs

[Suu]

http://www.billboard.com/charts/heatseekers-songs#/charts/heatseekers-songs

YES.

[Requia ☣]

Wikipedia says she also hit top 40 in Australia and New Zealand.

Do they have those stations that just play top 40 without any regard to what the song actually is?   

[Suu]

Wikipedia says she also hit top 40 in Australia and New Zealand.

Do they have those stations that just play top 40 without any regard to what the song actually is?   

It's also April 1st.

[Requia ☣]

Good point -checks the citations-

http://www.charts.org.nz/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Rebecca+Black  Do we have any Kiwi spags here?  I have no idea if your music ratings people are the kind to pull elaborate practical jokes.

The Aussie one is digital charts, not the same thing.

[Suu]

I think a lot of has to do with, god help us, search engine hits.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

This is what happened to Rock and Roll.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LWV_2DV-ss

what IS that?

AMERICA.

I actually found this entertaining. Something about a band made up entirely of old unenthusiastic fat guys and one happy Asian keyboard player, being mixed by a very disinterested guy in a Slipknot shirt.

[Mangrove]

Oh come on guys.  Her mom paied ARK MEDIA $2k for her daughter to record two songs and two vidoes.  She's not signed, she had no intention of marketing these things, it hit the web and went viral.  Of course it sucks.  She's not a singer, and was handed to a couple of cut-throat producers who didn't give a fuck about her and just turned the auto-tune up to 11 over a generic pop song for the cash.

If you're gonna throw a shitfit over an over-privileged 13-year-old's vanity project, you may want to consider valium for a few weeks.

Agreed. The dude who wrote the song has apparently stepped up because he felt bad that Miss Black was getting so much negative attention for something that he created. I also heard that he asked the family if he should take the video down and they said 'No! Leave it!' From this, I gather that both parties know exactly what they're doing.

Obviously, the song is terrible. I don't think there's any dispute there. Mrs Mang told me about it first and I went and checked it out. Went something like this:

Mrs Mang: Did you play that Rebecca Black song yet?
Me: Yeah. It's bad. But is it any worse than the last few singles put out by the Black Eyed Peas?
Mrs Mang: Good point.

I think this shitty Friday song is actually a symptom and not a cause. It exists because there's a culture to support it. A culture of over privileged 'tweens' with expendable income willing to invest in an adult fantasies. This is the musical equivalent of child beauty pageants. Ick.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I imagine her obituary will read something like, "gained notoriety for her song "Friday" which was dubbed the "Worst. Song. Ever." in March 2011 until the next "Worst. Song. Ever." came out in May 2011."

[Mangrove]

I imagine her obituary will read something like, "gained notoriety for her song "Friday" which was dubbed the "Worst. Song. Ever." in March 2011 until the next "Worst. Song. Ever." came out in May 2011."

Obituary? She has to first go through the Teen Sensation ---> "You're supposed to be a role model" ----> Rehab --> Comeback cycle first.
Then she gets to die.

[AFK]

I'm just wondering when this whole auto-tune thing is going to die.  I remember back in the 80s when artists got shit for lip-syncing at performances instead of playing live.  Now, every other pop star-let has their vocal chords digitally enhanced.  I mean, fuck, if we are going to have robotic singing can't we at least have real robots doing the singing? 

[Dysnomia]

T PAIN





Does not approve of your incorrect usage of autotune. 

[LMNO]

I'm just wondering when this whole auto-tune thing is going to die.  I remember back in the 80s when artists got shit for lip-syncing at performances instead of playing live.  Now, every other pop star-let has their vocal chords digitally enhanced.  I mean, fuck, if we are going to have robotic singing can't we at least have real robots doing the singing? 

It won't.  Just like doubling the lead vocal was once a revolutionary technique when multi-tracking came out, just like using computerized beats was once sacrilige, just like click tracks and non-linear editing was cheating, all are considered mainstays and pillars of pop music these days.

The hard tune (i.e. "obvious") function may die down, but now that we have the ability to autotune, it will never go away.