On two different shows now I've heard a fantastically awful song. The song is "Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap, I found out after finally looking up the lyrics. Both shows that played it were on CBS. CSI: Miami just had it on last week, and mercifully cut it short. Smith, on the other hand, ran through the entire song and it was like the frickin' thing wouldn't end.
Here's what sucks about it: It has no melody whatsoever; it's talky. It talks in song notes, but that doesn't count. It starts and stops and starts and stops like a mail truck. It's also got some heavy digital processing, which makes the sound come out warbled and gross (apparently intentionally). This is quite annoying enough until the singer starts shrieking in the upper registers, and then some horrible stuttering bridge-like thing happens and somebody must die. The person who bought the rights to the song for CBS should be slapped. People watch CBS.
On a related subject, I've been meaning to say for quite some time that Panic at the Disco! sucks on toast. That is all.
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 Oct 18 2006, 9:57 am
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Oct 18 2006, 10:11 am
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Elation
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Lummox JR listens only to rap and horsecore (horses on guitars).
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Well when you put it that way, rapping is just talking on a rhythm.
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I've got to listen to more horsecore now.
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Amen.
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RealQMark wrote:
Well when you put it that way, rapping is just talking on a rhythm. And Rock music is just talking with a different pitch over guitars, drums, and other instruments. Seriously, the whole downplaying of musical genres is stupid. If you don't have a valid argument, shut up. Got it? | |
Most of rap is just narration though. Newer rock songs are moving this way as well, and I find it to be a horrible travesty of the whole rock genre.
There are some "rappers" who sing, but those are mostly women, and normally it isn't any better then most pop singers. Thanks in large part to TV, music is now more about the music video than it is the music. I remember when rock stars where ugly and country singers looked like rednecks. Those where the good old days. | |
Noid wins the interweb.
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I found it on YouTube and your description is correct. This is vocoder abuse and a clear violation of the Geneva Conventions.
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WOW! That song is terrible! WHo knows, it might be pretty good- if it wasn't being mangled by the electronic shifting.
I would pay to see a horse jam out on a Fender, though. | |
I still like "Panic! At The Disco." :D
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OMG, I could totally be a hit singer if that song is the status quo! So, I talk while hitting a key on the keyboard? That seems easy enough. I'll be rich in notime.
Seriously, that song did suck. It drug on and on, leaving many gaps that did nothing to increase the value of the song. All those gaps did was tempt you with the thought of the song ending. Who thought it was a good idea to play that on a TV show? Can I get their address? Can I teach them better...with a crowbar? P.S. You can't prove that I just said OMG. | |
Noid wrote:
RealQMark wrote: It's called personal preference. You might want to look it up. If I want to bad mouth another genre because I don't like it, thats my choice. Its your choice to argue back against me if you don't like my personal preference. So before you tell anyone else to shut it, you might want to get an opinion before shooting off your mouth. BTW, in case you didn't see, my post was in a sarcastic nature in response to the actual topic of what Lummox said. "It talks in song notes, but that doesn't count." Last time I checked, thats what music was reduced to. Talking in notes. It used to be about rhythm, notes, and the sort but with so many different genre's, its hard to specify what its really about these days. | |
Not just a TV show, Danial; they played it on two.
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A big enraged "wtf" at you guys.
I'm having trouble figuring out how anyone could feel so distastefully towards such a beautiful song. "A capella what the hell is that garbage" Nuts to that. Here's a version you guys might like more. Still blown away, ugh. | |
Good gads man, I like a capella a lot, but there was nothing good about that song. It's screechy, stuttery, and talky, not melodic or even rhythmic like any good a capella is. Plus, how can you even call it a capella when the thing was run through severe digital processing to distort it? It sounds like the vocal stylings of the unholy union between Michael Jackson and a pipe organ. (Try getting that image out of your head.) And heck, the vocals outrageously suck even before processing; they're freakily androgynous at best.
If you want something lyrically weird and unconventional, but good, just hire Tori Amos. Heck, she could even sing it a capella. | |