3OH!3 are total bullshit

I did some digging on them. This confirms my suspicions:

Seems like they've started out as an okay-ish electroclash band and are just taking the piss at the mainstream audience and making money in the process. I heard bits and pieces on their recent stuff that sounded like they must be real musicians or at the very least electronic music enthusiasts.

There's no way in fucking hell anyone else than a real synth nerd would put a Prophet 5 break on a song like that (at 2:36). Sneaky. They'll get a pass from me.

VoicesCarry said:

The Jeffrey Dahmer reference is really offensive.

Oh God...

Now that creature Dahmer is part of pop culture. Evil personified. He truly was.

My heart still goes out to the victims...especially a certain fourteen year old who was handed back to Dahmer by the police!

"In the early morning hours of May 27, 1991, 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone (by coincidence, the younger brother of the boy whom Dahmer had molested) was discovered on the street, wandering naked, heavily under the influence of drugs and bleeding from his rectum. Two young women from the neighborhood found the dazed boy and called 911. Dahmer chased his victim down and tried to take him away, but the women stopped him.^[31] Dahmer told police that Sinthasomphone was his 19-year-old boyfriend, and that they had an argument while drinking. Against the protests of the two women who had called 911, police turned him over to Dahmer. They later reported smelling a strange scent while inside Dahmer's apartment, but did not investigate it. The smell was the body of Tony Hughes, Dahmer's previous victim, decomposing in the bedroom. The two policemen did not make any attempt to verify Sinthasomphone's age and failed to run a background check that would have revealed Dahmer was a convicted child molester still under probation.^[32] Later that night, Dahmer killed and dismembered Sinthasomphone, keeping his skull as a souvenir."

This is the man you've popularized in your song, Ke$ha. I hope you're proud.

Vanilli I love you, but I can't agree with you that this is good. I'm sorry, I just can't.

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Update: I found an RAR of the album but still love it. Won't be buying it though.

Saving my $ for something else. Maybe that will make the 98% of you happy.

heheh.

P.S.

I do wanna see Ke$ha live. She is hot. I can't be talked outta that.

Even if her voice sucks, I'll bare it when she comes in February.

I'm 26 going on 15 apparently. haha

Vanilli said:

Update: I found an RAR of the album but still love it. Won't be buying it though.

Saving my $ for something else. Maybe that will make the 98% of you happy.

heheh.

P.S.

I do wanna see Ke$ha live. She is hot. I can't be talked outta that.

Even if her voice sucks, I'll bare it when she comes in February.

I'm 26 going on 15 apparently. haha

I'll pray for your sanity.

Vanilli said:

Update: I found an RAR of the album but still love it. Won't be buying it though.

Saving my $ for something else. Maybe that will make the 98% of you happy.

heheh.

P.S.

I do wanna see Ke$ha live. She is hot. I can't be talked outta that.

Even if her voice sucks, I'll bare it when she comes in February.

I'm 26 going on 15 apparently. haha

REPENT

REPENT!

Vanilli said:

Update: I found an RAR of the album but still love it. Won't be buying it though.

Saving my $ for something else. Maybe that will make the 98% of you happy.

heheh.

P.S.

I do wanna see Ke$ha live. She is hot. I can't be talked outta that.

Even if her voice sucks, I'll bare it when she comes in February.

I'm 26 going on 15 apparently. haha

She performed her new single on Jimmy Kimmel last week and her voice wasn't half bad. She 'sang' without Autotune too. You can probably find it on youtube. I was a bit surprised myself.

Would this be it? There seems to be some autotune on it and also what sound like prerecorded vocals mixed with the live vocal. Having background singers that sing in tune when you're not singing in tune yourself helps a lot too. Not necessarily that impressive then.

Cinnie said:

3OH!3 are total bullshit

Seriously, they are. "Sean Foreman and Nathaniel Motte met in a physics class while attending the University of Colorado." Basically they're just a gimmick wrapped up in a joke... lets call them a gimmoke.

novabrkr said:

I did some digging on them. This confirms my suspicions:

Seems like they've started out as an okay-ish electroclash band and are just taking the piss at the mainstream audience and making money in the process. I heard bits and pieces on their recent stuff that sounded like they must be real musicians or at the very least electronic music enthusiasts.

There's no way in fucking hell anyone else than a real synth nerd would put a Prophet 5 break on a song like that (at 2:36). Sneaky. They'll get a pass from me.

I haven't heard anything from them that a PC and some software wouldn't do almost completely by itself. All they'd have to do is some dragging and dropping.

novabrkr said:

Would this be it? There seems to be some autotune on it and also what sound like prerecorded vocals mixed with the live vocal. Having background singers that sing in tune when you're not singing in tune yourself helps a lot too. Not necessarily that impressive then.

Lol yeah

I'll have to watch it again

I couldn't notice those things on my shitty tv speakers while trying to hold a conversation at the same time. Those vocal dubs tricked me.

Regardless, it sounded better than what I have heard from her before.

I still like the song.

novabrkr said:

(Un)Booty covered. And I'm not even sure that's really live. Sounds like most of it isn't.

Cerebus said:

novabrkr said:

(Un)Booty covered. And I'm not even sure that's really live. Sounds like most of it isn't.

I love how she is hot. Second of all, I love how she smiled at the end of her performance.

I'm so sick (no pun intended) of all these popstars taking themselves so seriously, that they

stand after a performance like they just delivered the "I Have A Dream Speech" or some shit.

We get it - you are copying MJ's style. But stop it already.

Ke$ha certainly isn't the most talented, or even, relevant performer of our time,

but she realizes that and makes her performances/songs about having fun. I wish

these fools like Beyonce, Lady GaGa, Justin, and Usher would take a page out of her book,

instead of worrying how many times their press releases and interviews can contain the

word "Icon." Oh wait, I guess Usher is going to take Michael's place now that he is gone.

Someone slap that fool for me. I'll be busy slapping Ke$ha's cute ass (that we

couldn't see in that video. Ugh stupid outfit. That's my only compliant with that performance.)

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Vanilli said:

Cerebus said:

(Un)Booty covered. And I'm not even sure that's really live. Sounds like most of it isn't.

I love how she is hot. Second of all, I love how she smiled at the end of her performance.

I'm so sick (no pun intended) of all these popstars taking themselves so seriously, that they

stand after a performance like they just delivered the "I Have A Dream Speech" or some shit.

We get it - you are copying MJ's style. But stop it already.

Ke$ha certainly isn't the most talented, or even, relevant performer of our time,

but she realizes that and makes her performances/songs about having fun. I wish

these fools like Beyonce, Lady GaGa, Justin, and Usher would take a page out of her book,

instead of worrying how many times their press releases and interviews can contain the

word "Icon." Oh wait, I guess Usher is going to take Michael's place now that he is gone.

Someone slap that fool for me. I'll be busy slapping Ke$ha's cute ass (that we

couldn't see in that video. Ugh stupid outfit. That's my only compliant with that performance.)

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She got no booty.

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I wouldn't call myself a fan with as much as I bash the quality of her music and her overall trashiness.

But she's a guilty pleasure, I have 4 of her songs on my iPod

Cerebus said:

I haven't heard anything from them that a PC and some software wouldn't do almost completely by itself. All they'd have to do is some dragging and dropping.

Sir, the point was that they seem to have a background in approaching the process of music production more seriously and that bits and pieces of that show up on their current output if you just know what to listen to. It doesn't validate it as art, but I found it interesting myself for a few listens for that reason.

However, while playing some chords on a vintage keyboard like the SCI Prophet 5 isn't a very demanding thing to do either, it's hardly done by "dragging and dropping" files on a PC. Unless, of course, they're dragging and dropping MIDI files and have gotten their 30 year old units MIDI retrofitted just for the purpose (which would be a pretty nonsensical thing to do). Not that many of the sounds they seem to be using couldn't be created by "dragging and dropping", of course.

I've never listened to Ke$ha. I'm gonna have to give her a listen one of these days.

TonyVanDam said:

VoicesCarry said:

The Jeffrey Dahmer reference is really offensive.

It's sure did. Not only was Jeffrey Dahmer a mass murderer, but he was also anti-gay AND racist. Plus all of his murder victims were non-white gay men.

I'm from Milwaukee, and when I saw that on the news when I was little, I was baffled. How could someone eat someone? I was like 8 years old. I didn't understand why this man was eating people? My mom, who's a Jehovah's Witness, said the world is coming to an end. That officially ended the innocent of my early childhood. It happened not too far from where I live right now. (the chocolate factory and apartment building that Dahmer lived has been demolished). I couldn't comprehend how someone could actually dismember people. My dad scared the shit outta me, telling me that I didn't know people as well as I think I did, referencing to Jefferey Dahmer. As far as I know, Jefferey Dahmer was obvious racist (he was killed by a mentally deranged black man in prison in 1994), but I think that he was openly gay or bisexual and it was referenced and documented that he attended Pride-fest here in Milwaukee in 1991 ( I know this didn't automatically make him a crusader for gay rights, but I read that he was into S & M also) but I know on wikipedia he listed as a LGBT serial killer, so I know its documented that he was at least openly gay or bisexual. From what I read he was active in Milwaukee's LGBT community in the 80's and 90's. But he became a born again christian before he was killed in prison (go figure). Its always the same when 'certain people' commit crimes, they get praise and fame, even in death, while 'others' get called criminals, and get no fame. (smh)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Dahmer#Early_life

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Girl4both said:

TonyVanDam said:

It's sure did. Not only was Jeffrey Dahmer a mass murderer, but he was also anti-gay AND racist. Plus all of his murder victims were non-white gay men.

I'm from Milwaukee, and when I saw that on the news when I was little, I was baffled. How could someone eat someone? I was like 8 years old. I didn't understand why this man was eating people? My mom, who's a Jehovah's Witness, said the world is coming to an end. That officially ended the innocent of my early childhood. It happened not too far from where I live right now. (the chocolate factory and apartment building that Dahmer lived has been demolished). I couldn't comprehend how someone could actually dismember people. My dad scared the shit outta me, telling me that I didn't know people as well as I think I did, referencing to Jefferey Dahmer. As far as I know, Jefferey Dahmer was obvious racist (he was killed by a mentally deranged black man in prison in 1994), but I think that he was openly gay or bisexual and it was referenced and documented that he attended Pride-fest here in Milwaukee in 1991 ( I know this didn't automatically make him a crusader for gay rights, but I read that he was into S & M also) but I know on wikipedia he listed as a LGBT serial killer, so I know its documented that he was at least openly gay or bisexual. From what I read he was active in Milwaukee's LGBT community in the 80's and 90's. But he became a born again christian before he was killed in prison (go figure). Its always the same when 'certain people' commit crimes, they get praise and fame, even in death, while 'others' get called criminals, and get no fame. (smh)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Dahmer#Early_life

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Dude also preyed on younger children too. I know what you're trying to say but nah I can't link him being gay and being a necrophiliac (which he was) and a cannibal. So I'll just say he was a racist, self-hating pedophile.

novabrkr said:

Cerebus said:

I haven't heard anything from them that a PC and some software wouldn't do almost completely by itself. All they'd have to do is some dragging and dropping.

Sir, the point was that they seem to have a background in approaching the process of music production more seriously and that bits and pieces of that show up on their current output if you just know what to listen to. It doesn't validate it as art, but I found it interesting myself for a few listens for that reason.

However, while playing some chords on a vintage keyboard like the SCI Prophet 5 isn't a very demanding thing to do either, it's hardly done by "dragging and dropping" files on a PC. Unless, of course, they're dragging and dropping MIDI files and have gotten their 30 year old units MIDI retrofitted just for the purpose (which would be a pretty nonsensical thing to do). Not that many of the sounds they seem to be using couldn't be created by "dragging and dropping", of course.

Every vintage sound has been sampled and made available sythesized for easy drag and drop sequencing.

I think it is oh so lovely when people ignorantly reference killers for shock value without really knowing anything about the history of psychopaths...

BklynBabe said:

I like her latest song as a club banger, but I'm still not a fan. But I can definitely appreciate a good beat and the access to alcohol in the club makes her voice a little more tolerable. Like beer goggles for your ears. Wake up in the maorning like "wtf did I listen to?"

Well that's the side effect. Everything sounds good with alcohol then you wake up...

novabrkr said:

Cerebus said:

I haven't heard anything from them that a PC and some software wouldn't do almost completely by itself. All they'd have to do is some dragging and dropping.

Sir, the point was that they seem to have a background in approaching the process of music production more seriously and that bits and pieces of that show up on their current output if you just know what to listen to. It doesn't validate it as art, but I found it interesting myself for a few listens for that reason.

However, while playing some chords on a vintage keyboard like the SCI Prophet 5 isn't a very demanding thing to do either, it's hardly done by "dragging and dropping" files on a PC. Unless, of course, they're dragging and dropping MIDI files and have gotten their 30 year old units MIDI retrofitted just for the purpose (which would be a pretty nonsensical thing to do). Not that many of the sounds they seem to be using couldn't be created by "dragging and dropping", of course.

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fixed.

Cinnie said:

novabrkr said:

Sir, the point was that they seem to have a background in approaching the process of music production more seriously and that bits and pieces of that show up on their current output if you just know what to listen to. It doesn't validate it as art, but I found it interesting myself for a few listens for that reason.

However, while playing some chords on a vintage keyboard like the SCI Prophet 5 isn't a very demanding thing to do either, it's hardly done by "dragging and dropping" files on a PC. Unless, of course, they're dragging and dropping MIDI files and have gotten their 30 year old units MIDI retrofitted just for the purpose (which would be a pretty nonsensical thing to do). Not that many of the sounds they seem to be using couldn't be created by "dragging and dropping", of course.

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fixed.

Basically.

They might be using VSTi plugins, but you still have to play the notes. Even if you are using an arpeggiator you still have to press the keys.

Every vintage sound has not been recreated and digital replications aren't always 100% accurate in sound reproduction. (Especially when it comes to analog synths).

Seems to me like you don't know what the fuck you are talking about.

minneapolisFunq said:

They might be using VSTi plugins, but you still have to play the notes. Even if you are using an arpeggiator you still have to press the keys.

Every vintage sound has not been recreated and digital replications aren't always 100% accurate in sound reproduction. (Especially when it comes to analog synths).

Seems to me like you don't know what the fuck you are talking about.

Since you didn't quote me I'll just have to assume that you were talking to me. Seems to me like you're rude and can't handle having a basic conversation without insulting people. I know exactly what I'm talking about. It's quite easy to make music these days without ever touching a keyboard.

Cinnie said:

novabrkr said:

Sir, the point was that they seem to have a background in approaching the process of music production more seriously and that bits and pieces of that show up on their current output if you just know what to listen to. It doesn't validate it as art, but I found it interesting myself for a few listens for that reason.

However, while playing some chords on a vintage keyboard like the SCI Prophet 5 isn't a very demanding thing to do either, it's hardly done by "dragging and dropping" files on a PC. Unless, of course, they're dragging and dropping MIDI files and have gotten their 30 year old units MIDI retrofitted just for the purpose (which would be a pretty nonsensical thing to do). Not that many of the sounds they seem to be using couldn't be created by "dragging and dropping", of course.

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fixed.

Thank you!

I really can't stand her as a person but some of her songs are incredibly catchy. I guess she's the perfect anti-Gaga, which is probably why she's so popular - everyone needs a rival/opposite to the big star.

I like Animal, Cannibal, Blow, Dirty Picture and We R Who We R.

EDIT: JFC, just read the earlier post about Dahmer, now I'm really questioning Ke$ha's sanity. How could anyone think referecing him so carelessly is OK? I don't usually get on my high horse about celebrities being role models because I think it's ridiculous to look towards an entertainer in that respect but damn...she really didn't think this one through (or did and doesn't care...which is worse?)

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