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I was ready to wax on about something intelligent and insightful! Maybe! But it's been a long ass workday and I'm tired. IDK, DUDE. Maybe I'll attempt a post about what I originally wanted to talk about, with a little less intelligence and insightfulness.
(... Okay, it occurs to me that this really isn't that intelligent or insightful at all. Feh.)
Guys! I HAVE A HORRIBLE CONFESSION TO MAKE. LET ME LIST SOME THINGS FOR YOU FIRST.
AVRIL LAVIGNE
MILEY CYRUS
KE$HA
What do all these ladies have in common? I WAS LISTENING TO THEIR MUSIC TODAY AT WORK.
... YES, NON-IRONICALLY.
The thing is, over the past year or so I have come to terms with something important. Important to my SOUL. It has been aided by my formerly shameful love of j-pop, gradual slide into k-pop, my increasingly unabashed love of auto-tune (part of me is dying as I type this, BUT PART OF ME FEELS SO LIBERATED AS WELL), and my total lack of will to resist grooving to stupid, horrible, craptastic, utterly vapid POP MUSIC.
Let me admit, it was all there inside me, but under the surface, right? In my past, I decried these artists! They didn't even deserve the moniker! Did they write their own music? If they did, did they sound good live? What about their lyrics? THEY'RE SUPER SHITTY, AREN'T THEY? RHYMING "IT" WITH "IT" DOESN'T EXACTLY MAKE YOU TALENTED, IT JUST ESTABLISHES YOUR FAMILIARITY WITH THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS EQUIVALENT TO THAT OF A FOUR-YEAR-OLD.
But I burned their horrible music to my mix discs and simply changed the discs whenever someone other than my s.o. got in the car. (My s.o. suffers a lot when I drive.)
I'm getting over this. The shame, I mean. You can't argue that the shame... well, I'm sure it's well-deserved! IDGAF. I like this shitty music. I love it. It's so awful, but it's so catchy! And fun! You know how I know?
BECAUSE THE BEST KARAOKE SONG IS SPICE GIRLS' "WANNABE." I swear to God, you cue this shit up, and the whole fucking room wails "NO!" but then they all get up AND SING ALONG ANYWAY. THEY KNOW IT. THEY LOVE IT. EVEN IF THEY WON'T ADMIT IT IN PUBLIC, OR EVEN TO THEMSELVES.
It's fun. It's awesome. And I like having awesome fun. So I like terrible pop music.
How the fuck does this relate to PpG? At all? Uh, have you noticed TEF!Boomer? He gets a massive metaphorical music boner for bubblegum pop. He can play like a motherfucker, but at the end of the day, he's just there to have a good time. He rocks out to the likes of Avril Lavigne and Hilary Duff and Rihanna! He basically became the channel for my subconscious love of bad pop music. Plus: IT'S HILARIOUS. (No, really. Picture Boomer, looking rock band badass, while he sings "I'M NODDIN' MY HEAD LIKE YEAH, MOVIN' MY HIPS LIKE YEAH")
The other thing is that nearly every action scene I write is set to some crap j-pop or pop pop song. Why? Because it's got a killer beat! BRICK WOULD GUT HIMSELF IF HE KNEW THAT WHEN I PICTURE HIM BEING A BADASS, BRITNEY SPEARS' "CIRCUS" IS RUNNING THROUGH MY HEAD. Yessss. YESSSSS.
The hell with it. I love this garbage. And if any of you fine people are ever in my neighborhood, give me a call! WE'LL GO KARAOKE, IT WILL BE GRAND ♥
(... Okay, it occurs to me that this really isn't that intelligent or insightful at all. Feh.)
Guys! I HAVE A HORRIBLE CONFESSION TO MAKE. LET ME LIST SOME THINGS FOR YOU FIRST.
AVRIL LAVIGNE
MILEY CYRUS
KE$HA
What do all these ladies have in common? I WAS LISTENING TO THEIR MUSIC TODAY AT WORK.
... YES, NON-IRONICALLY.
The thing is, over the past year or so I have come to terms with something important. Important to my SOUL. It has been aided by my formerly shameful love of j-pop, gradual slide into k-pop, my increasingly unabashed love of auto-tune (part of me is dying as I type this, BUT PART OF ME FEELS SO LIBERATED AS WELL), and my total lack of will to resist grooving to stupid, horrible, craptastic, utterly vapid POP MUSIC.
Let me admit, it was all there inside me, but under the surface, right? In my past, I decried these artists! They didn't even deserve the moniker! Did they write their own music? If they did, did they sound good live? What about their lyrics? THEY'RE SUPER SHITTY, AREN'T THEY? RHYMING "IT" WITH "IT" DOESN'T EXACTLY MAKE YOU TALENTED, IT JUST ESTABLISHES YOUR FAMILIARITY WITH THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS EQUIVALENT TO THAT OF A FOUR-YEAR-OLD.
But I burned their horrible music to my mix discs and simply changed the discs whenever someone other than my s.o. got in the car. (My s.o. suffers a lot when I drive.)
I'm getting over this. The shame, I mean. You can't argue that the shame... well, I'm sure it's well-deserved! IDGAF. I like this shitty music. I love it. It's so awful, but it's so catchy! And fun! You know how I know?
BECAUSE THE BEST KARAOKE SONG IS SPICE GIRLS' "WANNABE." I swear to God, you cue this shit up, and the whole fucking room wails "NO!" but then they all get up AND SING ALONG ANYWAY. THEY KNOW IT. THEY LOVE IT. EVEN IF THEY WON'T ADMIT IT IN PUBLIC, OR EVEN TO THEMSELVES.
It's fun. It's awesome. And I like having awesome fun. So I like terrible pop music.
How the fuck does this relate to PpG? At all? Uh, have you noticed TEF!Boomer? He gets a massive metaphorical music boner for bubblegum pop. He can play like a motherfucker, but at the end of the day, he's just there to have a good time. He rocks out to the likes of Avril Lavigne and Hilary Duff and Rihanna! He basically became the channel for my subconscious love of bad pop music. Plus: IT'S HILARIOUS. (No, really. Picture Boomer, looking rock band badass, while he sings "I'M NODDIN' MY HEAD LIKE YEAH, MOVIN' MY HIPS LIKE YEAH")
The other thing is that nearly every action scene I write is set to some crap j-pop or pop pop song. Why? Because it's got a killer beat! BRICK WOULD GUT HIMSELF IF HE KNEW THAT WHEN I PICTURE HIM BEING A BADASS, BRITNEY SPEARS' "CIRCUS" IS RUNNING THROUGH MY HEAD. Yessss. YESSSSS.
The hell with it. I love this garbage. And if any of you fine people are ever in my neighborhood, give me a call! WE'LL GO KARAOKE, IT WILL BE GRAND ♥
