Paid Members BomberPat Posted July 23, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted July 23, 2019 A 40 year old posted this;  She's someone I used to hang out with about ten years ago or more. She's always posted this kind of shit. I doubt anyone has ever suggested to her that heavy metal is "not music", but if you listened to her you'd think it was an everyday occurrence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 Plenty of talented pop music around as well. Proper lazy dogshit opinion that, like you said, has probably seldom been uttered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Accident Prone Posted July 23, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted July 23, 2019 This opinion drives me insane. Metal can be just as lazy/shit/manufactured as any other genre of music. There's also those similar posts where they compare the lyrics of a metal song to a pop song. It'll always be some inspirational, #PMA Parkway Drive song compared to something like 'Stupid Hoe' by Nicki Minaj. It works both ways though, as you can compare most of Taylor Swift's back catalog to 'Cyanide' by Deathstars and you'll get the same result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted July 23, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted July 23, 2019 I had a conversation with one of the metalhead crowd at the pub a while back. Someone had said they thought Nickelback get a bad rap, I said no, they're awful. Token metalhead stepped in with, "yeah, if you had to listen to either them or One Direction, you'd listen to Nickelback". Right, yeah, of course, if I'm ever in that extremely unlikely predicament, that completely invalidates my point. But of course you don't like One Direction. You're not supposed to. They're not for you. Comparing metal to "pop music" is completely pointless. Similarly, there were always a few back when I DJ'd metal nights who'd complain about "commercial" music. Yep, nothing commercial at all about your Metallica T-shirt, Iron Maiden belt buckle, Anthrax and Slayer patches, etc. etc. etc.. The most widely merchandised genre of music there is, and you want to bitch about "commercialism". Quote There's also those similar posts where they compare the lyrics of a metal song to a pop song. It'll always be some inspirational, #PMA Parkway Drive song compared to something like 'Stupid Hoe' by Nicki Minaj. It works both ways though, as you can compare most of Taylor Swift's back catalog to 'Cyanide' by Deathstars and you'll get the same result. There's a bloke I'm friends with on Facebook who did this with Stormzy lyrics after Glastonbury. And I just wanted to say, "mate, you've been posting every day for years about how great the Beach Boys are. I could post the lyrics to "Vegetables" and it wouldn't somehow invalidate their entire body of work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 It’s a teenage mind set. Pretty sure most people were snobby about their music tastes when they were a teen. I 100% was, especially with hip hop. With my Rawkus t-shirt, backpack and mixtapes, I hated the “jiggy” shit, whereas now I don’t care what people think, I can say that Get Rich Or Die Trying by 50 Cent is an incredible album. Metal/punk can be very similar. Massive amount of “gatekeepers” that never grew out of their teens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Accident Prone Posted July 23, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted July 23, 2019 10 minutes ago, BomberPat said: I had a conversation with one of the metalhead crowd at the pub a while back. Someone had said they thought Nickelback get a bad rap, I said no, they're awful. Someone at work said the exact same thing to me the other week. He thinks that in a few years people will realise how wrong they were about Nickelback and how incredibly underappreciated they were. He's from Stoke though, so I let him down gently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rey_Piste Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 My Facebook feed is a combination of area 51 and dognapping seagulls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted July 23, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted July 23, 2019 Read the thread. Top disgruntled employee work here.   Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 There’s been a helicopter overhead all night. Not the greatest emoji use here  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wordsfromlee Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 This is the one I’ve seen countless times that does my head in Conveniently forgetting it works the other way round too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rey_Piste Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 11 minutes ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said: Read the thread. Top disgruntled employee work here.   You need to learn how to differentiate between the different social media websites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted July 24, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted July 24, 2019 Bohemian Rhapsody is such an odd choice of contrast when it comes to lyrics as well - the lyrics are fucking nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Wiseau Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 (edited) and it's credited as being produced by Roy Thomas Baker and Queen, so four people, exactly the same amount as the Beyonce song. Edited July 24, 2019 by Harry Wiseau Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Dem Wanz Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 2 hours ago, BomberPat said: Bohemian Rhapsody is such an odd choice of contrast when it comes to lyrics as well - the lyrics are fucking nonsense. THANK YOU - I think it must be the most overrated song ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Justice Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 Beyonce is shit though. Great voice, but she's all wiggles on shit lyrics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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