VH1
In between loathing my own existance and watching commercials during the basketball game last night I had a chacne to check out what was on VH1. I used to like this channel but I must say it is seriously going down hill. They were doing a countdown (all the rage in todays society, everything must have a list)on the "most Awsomely Bad Songs," whatever that means.
First off were does the list come from, who made it up, give me some sort of accountability here. Secondly, they were taking songs in ever literally context of the words being said. You could take any great songwrite or group and find some song where a lyric is stupid and doesn't make sense, in fact the Beatles were thought to have no shot at becoming big because of the lyric "She Loves you, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!" and they seemed to do okay with that song and their careers. The other problem I had was all the people they had on doing commentary about these songs and these groups, again as the kids like to say had no street cred. I had only ever heard of 2 people on the hour long show and that was Matt Pinnfield and Comedian Jim Florentine. They had all these other meaningless comedians on commenting, and not being funny I might add, whom I had never heard of. Now obviously I do not know every comedian out there, but I watch a tremendous amount of stand up, all the shows that feature various comedians and I probably can identify 150 stand ups I know working today in the business and VH1 coudn't find any of them.
Lastly, if you are gonna do a countdown on what songs are good and bad, you should have certain people on to be the judge and make the list. To name a few of those people you migh want Bob Dylan, BB King, Bruce Springsteen, Sir Paul Mcartney, and Chuck D. That way you get a great sampling from all types of music and intelligent people who know something about lyrics and songwriting.
Peace and Love
KD
First off were does the list come from, who made it up, give me some sort of accountability here. Secondly, they were taking songs in ever literally context of the words being said. You could take any great songwrite or group and find some song where a lyric is stupid and doesn't make sense, in fact the Beatles were thought to have no shot at becoming big because of the lyric "She Loves you, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!" and they seemed to do okay with that song and their careers. The other problem I had was all the people they had on doing commentary about these songs and these groups, again as the kids like to say had no street cred. I had only ever heard of 2 people on the hour long show and that was Matt Pinnfield and Comedian Jim Florentine. They had all these other meaningless comedians on commenting, and not being funny I might add, whom I had never heard of. Now obviously I do not know every comedian out there, but I watch a tremendous amount of stand up, all the shows that feature various comedians and I probably can identify 150 stand ups I know working today in the business and VH1 coudn't find any of them.
Lastly, if you are gonna do a countdown on what songs are good and bad, you should have certain people on to be the judge and make the list. To name a few of those people you migh want Bob Dylan, BB King, Bruce Springsteen, Sir Paul Mcartney, and Chuck D. That way you get a great sampling from all types of music and intelligent people who know something about lyrics and songwriting.
Peace and Love
KD
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id like to see the list of 150
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