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(02-23-2012 06:34 AM)SaintVicious Wrote: Katy perry isn't bad, she actually has singing talent. its just some of the pop garbage her label has her do thats what i dont like :C
I doesn't matter if she has a good singing voice if all her songs sound like shit and have lyrics like "Baby your a firework."
The only thing that would redeem Justin Bieber or one of those other crap 'musicians' in my eyes would be for them to commit suicide and leave a letter about how evil capitalism is, and how fucking stupid people are for listening to their godawful music. Imagine pictures of Justin Bieber hanging from a noose with some sick words written in blood on the wall...imagine the country's reaction! It would be glorious.
(02-23-2012 06:34 AM)SaintVicious Wrote: Katy perry isn't bad, she actually has singing talent. its just some of the pop garbage her label has her do thats what i dont like :C
I doesn't matter if she has a good singing voice if all her songs sound like shit and have lyrics like "Baby your a firework."
All that opinion, some people think your music is shit does that make it so? No, it doesn't.
I have NOTHING against Katy Perry or Justin Bieber or the Jonas Brothers, or any of them. I think a lot of people put their hate towards them, when they should be hating the people who got them where they are, whoever it may be depending on the case. But it's usually the same people...
(02-23-2012 07:37 AM)StadiumArcadium Wrote: I have NOTHING against Katy Perry or Justin Bieber or the Jonas Brothers, or any of them. I think a lot of people put their hate towards them, when they should be hating the people who got them where they are, whoever it may be depending on the case. But it's usually the same people...
This. I'd rather have musicians write their own songs with 100% of their creative input and no staff people writing with or for them. I like early stuff by a band called Muse, most people nowadays would know them for their major label albums Black Holes & Revelations and The Resistance, or, even more recently, the single Neutron Star Collision. I like the stuff that was recorded long before Warner bought out Taste Media, the first albums. (Showbiz, Origin of Symmetry, Hullabaloo Soundtrack and Absolution).
02-23-2012 07:45 AM
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(02-23-2012 07:37 AM)StadiumArcadium Wrote: I have NOTHING against Katy Perry or Justin Bieber or the Jonas Brothers, or any of them. I think a lot of people put their hate towards them, when they should be hating the people who got them where they are, whoever it may
be depending on the case. But it's usually the same people...
This. I'd rather have musicians write their own
songs with 100% of their creative input and no
staff people writing with or for them. I like early
stuff by a band called Muse, most people
nowadays would know them for their major
label albums Black Holes & Revelations and The
Resistance, or, even more recently, the single
Neutron Star Collision. I like the stuff that was
recorded long before Warner bought out Taste
Media, the first albums. (Showbiz, Origin of Symmetry, Hullabaloo Soundtrack and Absolution).
TTHHEEYY MAKE MEEE WANT TOO SSCCREEAAMMN MY SCREEEEAAAAAAMMMMMS
Katy Perry's music is fun. Just because it doesn't match your own personal taste does NOT make it "bad music", even if there ever was such a thing. The notion that music can be bad is simply somebody trying to pass off their opinion as a fact.
(02-25-2012 12:13 AM)|55555| Wrote: Katy Perry's music is fun. Just because it doesn't match your own personal taste does NOT make it "bad music", even if there ever was such a thing. The notion that music can be bad is simply somebody trying to pass off their opinion as a fact.
Not to mention she has nice tits.
There are certain "artists" who are simply bad. It isn't an opinion, it's a fact.
Katy Perry is one of those "artists".
No, this is Patrick.
02-25-2012 12:17 AM
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(02-25-2012 12:13 AM)|55555| Wrote: Katy Perry's music is fun. Just because it doesn't match your own personal taste does NOT make it "bad music", even if there ever was such a thing. The notion that music can be bad is simply somebody trying to pass off their opinion as a fact.
Not to mention she has nice tits.
There are certain "artists" who are simply bad. It isn't an opinion, it's a fact.
(02-25-2012 12:13 AM)|55555| Wrote: Katy Perry's music is fun. Just because it doesn't match your own personal taste does NOT make it "bad music", even if there ever was such a thing. The notion that music can be bad is simply somebody trying to pass off their opinion as a fact.
Not to mention she has nice tits.
There are certain "artists" who are simply bad. It isn't an opinion, it's a fact.
(02-23-2012 07:37 AM)StadiumArcadium Wrote: I have NOTHING against Katy Perry or Justin Bieber or the Jonas Brothers, or any of them. I think a lot of people put their hate towards them, when they should be hating the people who got them where they are, whoever it may
be depending on the case. But it's usually the same people...
This. I'd rather have musicians write their own
songs with 100% of their creative input and no
staff people writing with or for them. I like early
stuff by a band called Muse, most people
nowadays would know them for their major
label albums Black Holes & Revelations and The
Resistance, or, even more recently, the single
Neutron Star Collision. I like the stuff that was
recorded long before Warner bought out Taste
Media, the first albums. (Showbiz, Origin of Symmetry, Hullabaloo Soundtrack and Absolution).
TTHHEEYY MAKE MEEE WANT TOO SSCCREEAAMMN MY SCREEEEAAAAAAMMMMMS
YES. Showbiz era Muse. Also, I thought the correct lyric was "They make me scream your screams". I don't care if people act like "LOL RADIOHEAD RIPOFF NO TALENT" it's still better than all the pop stuff that they put in the Twilight soundtrack nowadays.
03-27-2012 05:24 AM
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(03-27-2012 05:35 AM)Mælstrom Wrote: Dude, I'm kidding. I love Muse as well, except for some of the songs on Black Holes and Revelations and Resistance.
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For anyone who remembers me going on an archive binge: Thank you all. I know I ended it being a drama queen, I don't really agree with the ideology anymore, and I'm really not the same person I was (I went through a neopagan phase!) but still this site was the first online community I was in. I graduated from school and turned 18. Time flies. KFC Nyan Cat, June 20, 2019.
Most of these pop music artists don't write their own music
"I never said half the shit people say i did." -Albert Einstein
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So I'm finally joining this thread to just say that these are the kinds of opinionated people I hate. Sure, I don't like Katy Perry or even her genre, but when people say shit like this it makes me want to throat punch them and then just walk away...even if they were my best friend.
The less you try to control things, the less you need to.
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"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail, there is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers. That is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."-Stephen Hawking
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
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