NorthC said:

StrangeButTrue said:

NorthC said:

Actually... I kinda like Pink... Don't really know why, but she's a little out of the ordinary. I once saw a live show on TV where she even had the guts to cover Bohemian Rhapsody- and I'm not a Queen fan at all. She's alright. [Edited 8/21/16 13:15pm]

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Co-sign - ever since I saw that gal wail out "Janie's Got A Gun" at the Aerosmith MTV Icon special I knew she was it. She's hit or shit but when she hits its quite amazing, like that song "Try" (hit) versus that new soundtrack song "Just Like Fire"(shit).

And then to think Aerosmith also had a hit with a song called Pink. I think she also has a "since" of humour.

Adorecream said:

Macy Grey - Loved her first album, then it was all down hill and the drugs as well

ah yes, same here. that first album was so nice! i used to listen to that in my car all the time.
her other albums just got less and less. i don't think i've checked her out after album 3 at all.

same with angie stone. black diamond was great, then after that it all got meh.

for a while there i fell out of love with tori amos, completely. after scarlet's walk there was a
song per album that i liked, not even loved. biggest turn around for any artist ever, for me.
going from liking every single song on her albums to liking none or at most one. she did turn
it around again with her last one, unrepentant geraldines. there are quite a few very beautiful
songs on that one so i have hope.

another one who went from superb to just blah is billy corgan. there are still good songs to be
found on his releases, just nothing anywhere near the original smashing pumpkins. the newly
release reissues have been great though. although something like 'methusala' just points out
again how brilliant he was at writing songs and how stale he's become now.

NorthC said:

StrangeButTrue said:

NorthC said:

Actually... I kinda like Pink... Don't really know why, but she's a little out of the ordinary. I once saw a live show on TV where she even had the guts to cover Bohemian Rhapsody- and I'm not a Queen fan at all. She's alright. [Edited 8/21/16 13:15pm]

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Co-sign - ever since I saw that gal wail out "Janie's Got A Gun" at the Aerosmith MTV Icon special I knew she was it. She's hit or shit but when she hits its quite amazing, like that song "Try" (hit) versus that new soundtrack song "Just Like Fire"(shit).

And then to think Aerosmith also had a hit with a song called Pink. I think she also has a "since" of humour.

StrangeButTrue said:

"The Poosycat Dolls" and Nicole Shcwarzenegger. WTF was that. People like, believed in whatever that was. I swear the were created just so search engines can make them pop up instead of what they're really searching for. "Dontcha" lmfao "Dontcha wish your girlfriend was a slut like me"

You just made my Tuesday morning.

Adorecream said:

mjscarousal said:

Um.... you not a fan of Nikki are you? LOL

Most shit hop artists are either a hoe or a coon, Nicki is both, a coonish hoe, she is a coon for putting on pink lipstick and general monkeyshines, and ahoe as her music is filthy and sick to the extreme. Also because the most ratchet ghetto trash like her. I watched several Advise show videos and TNN raw stuff and they usually show ratchet people going on about her or liking her, also one showed a 3 year old girl in nappies next to her 16 year old mother and the girl was saying "Nicki minaj, nicki minaj bitch" and that was all she could say while 16 year old mother with some outrageous name I could not remember, was swearing at the Police because her man Dontrell was being carted off for making crack or some shit.

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Plus the fact she has no musical talent at all, her rhymes are ridiculous and her videos are stupid and the songs are beefed up with ridiuclous beats and samples. Honestly wtf is that beat in Beez in the trap and what the hell is Superbass about. She is the 2010s equivalent of Zip Coon and the Jezebel all rolled in one.

God. I make your words mine.

IstenSzek said:

same with angie stone. black diamond was great, then after that it all got meh.

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Speaking of Stones - Joss Stone. I loved that first album with the sincere cover versions but I have yet to really feel any followups, even the tune with Lauryn Hill (another one) was a mega let down.

EmmaMcG said:

Britney has a mental disorder but during her prime (1999-2001) she was actually a good performer. I wouldn't say she has NO talent at all. I think that should go to Katy Perry. Briney is obviously passed her peak and is currently medicated so I don't think its fair to judge her performances now. I find all of todays stars to be puppets outside of the ones who actually write their music i.e Adele and Bruno. If you gonna call Britney a puppet minus well call everyone a puppet.

StrangeButTrue said:

mjscarousal said:

Britney has a mental disorder but during her prime (1999-2001) she was actually a good performer. I wouldn't say she has NO talent at all. I think that should go to Katy Perry. Briney is obviously passed her peak and is currently medicated so I don't think its fair to judge her performances now. I find all of todays stars to be puppets outside of the ones who actually write their music i.e Adele and Bruno. If you gonna call Britney a puppet minus well call everyone a puppet.

Look at this concert clip.It's Britney lipsyncing.....to another singer's vocals! That's what I mean when I call her a puppet.She doesn't even try.It's like she's content to just get up onstage like an emotionless robot....lipsyncing the entire show and going through the motions.She puts no effort or heart into her performances.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMVQZs-QZx0

SoulAlive said:

mjscarousal said:

Britney has a mental disorder but during her prime (1999-2001) she was actually a good performer. I wouldn't say she has NO talent at all. I think that should go to Katy Perry. Briney is obviously passed her peak and is currently medicated so I don't think its fair to judge her performances now. I find all of todays stars to be puppets outside of the ones who actually write their music i.e Adele and Bruno. If you gonna call Britney a puppet minus well call everyone a puppet.

Look at this concert clip.It's Britney lipsyncing.....to another singer's vocals! That's what I mean when I call her a puppet.She doesn't even try.It's like she's content to just get up onstage like an emotionless robot....lipsyncing the entire show and going through the motions.She puts no effort or heart into her performances.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMVQZs-QZx0

But she has a mental illness... its not fair to insist she is "not trying" or mock her when she is medicated." Of course that will automatically affect how she performs, energy, emotion etc.

During her prime (1999-2001) Britney was a good performer and she did put heart in her performances during those years before her mental her break down, I stand by that.

I am not a Britney Spears fan by any measure but I don't get people who imply she has always been this robotic emotionless performer when that is completely not true at all. Also people insist she has always been a "puppet" but so is Beyonce, Katy Perry, and Rihanna who don't write or produce any of their music.

Adorecream said:

Never ever liked the screaming ladies Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston.

You all are some lost mofos. TTD is Prince now. Lenny has some amazing songs. I bet none of you have a single JB album.

Jesus and the Mary Chain. Snooze time.

Rammstein, german noise.

dancerella said:

Adorecream said:

Really, you don't like Blood Sugar sex magik or Californication, they are great albums. Even One Hot minute has some good songs like My friends and Aeroplane.

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Mothers milk is a great album, Stonecold Bush, Subway to Venus, Taste the Pain - I mean wow!

Uplift Mofo party plan is probably their best, just so raw! I kind of agree, the Chilis were better when they were an underground act and before Under the Bridge made them all mainstream.

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By the way was their last good album, Stadium Arcadium and anything later is dreadful.

I can just about stomach blood sugar sex magic but after that no way! Complete shite! Where's the funk and energy. They should probably hang it up.

Thinking about it, I can see why, their post 2002 stuff is sugary and frothy stadium rock to the extreme, and even BSSM was flattening out the riffs and metal sounds.

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I bet I can see you listening to something like Backwoods, with the riffed up zabba zabba metal guitar of Hillel Slovak and Anthony going "In the backwoods baby - Where BERRIES grow, take me to your Backwoods now" I would take that over any of their pleasing 1990s stuff and the whole of the mothers milk album.

I liked Ricky Martin in 1998 during the World Cup Soccor and that song Cup of Life......but then in 1999 during the 'latin explosion' and Livin La Vida Loca song I think I got turned off by the overexposure.....that it was everywhere....and then lost interest in him and his music.

Adorecream said:

Used to like No Doubt but now I can't stand anything by them. The list of never liked would be everyone except the 200 or so I do like.

2freaky4church1 said:

You all are some lost mofos. Lenny has some amazing songs.

His music is bland and boring to me

mjscarousal said:

SoulAlive said:

Look at this concert clip.It's Britney lipsyncing.....to another singer's vocals! That's what I mean when I call her a puppet.She doesn't even try.It's like she's content to just get up onstage like an emotionless robot....lipsyncing the entire show and going through the motions.She puts no effort or heart into her performances.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMVQZs-QZx0

But she has a mental illness... its not fair to insist she is "not trying" or mock her when she is medicated." Of course that will automatically affect how she performs, energy, emotion etc.

During her prime (1999-2001) Britney was a good performer and she did put heart in her performances during those years before her mental her break down, I stand by that.

I am not a Britney Spears fan by any measure but I don't get people who imply she has always been this robotic emotionless performer when that is completely not true at all. Also people insist she has always been a "puppet" but so is Beyonce, Katy Perry, and Rihanna who don't write or produce any of their music.

we'll have to agree to disagree I know about her mental illness but even before she had those problems,I still never liked her.As for Beyonce...you know that I am no fan of her (lol) but she at least works hard and puts effort into her career and performances.

I stopped listening to contemporary pop music around the time of Britney Spears' first hit (in 1998), so I've rarely heard any pop songs since then. What I have heard is absolute shite, so I would say I hate about 99% of pop music. Unlistenable garbage.

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Similarly, the 1990s' version of "R&B" (corruption of the term) as symbolized by "artists" like R.Kelly is absolutely soul-destroying, dire dreck.

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Much the same with rap/hip-hop. The late-70s through late-80s threw up some interesting artists that I like, but since then it's all diminishing returns in a 'genre' that burned itself out very quickly (probably because it's so musically limited).

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All pop-country (the million-sellers since the early 1990s) is absolute garbage.

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I have a hard time listening to white blues bands/singers since, maybe, the classic-rock era ended (mid-70s or whatever). It was meaningful in the Woodstock-era, but since then something about white guys going onstage to play blues is just cringe-inducing.

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As for particular artists that I can't stand, here is a (very) limited list:

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-- Bon Jovi (turned 80's hair-music into a career corporation; utterly insincere music under the pretense of sincerity)
-- Queen (utterly insincere, over-blown music, incredibly bad hair)
-- Garth Brooks (leading star in turning 'country' into a lowest-common denominator pop music for right wingers)
-- Air Supply (level of vitality of their music is too offensive to my granny)
-- Céline Dion (do you really need reasons?)
-- Puff Daddy / Whatever-the-fuck-he-calls-himself-now (utter idiot, famous for nothing except desecrating a great Police song -- musical equivalent of Paris Hilton)
-- Color Me Badd / Any early 90s smooth slut-pop "R&B" vocal group (their best song is the SNL parody "Dick in a Box")
-- Kenny G (sees the death of jazz, and decides to stamp on its grave by trying to turn it into lowest-common-denominator music)

-- Maroon 5 (tough choice between listening to his voice on repeat for an hour, or having my testacles removed with a can-opener)

Britney is a puppet because she doesn't want to perform anymore but lets herself be pushed into it. The other girls just want to stay popular for as long as possible, they're all filthy rich.

ThePanther said:

-- Maroon 5 (tough choice between listening to his voice on repeat for an hour, or having my testacles removed with a can-opener)

at one point,I really tried to get into Maroon 5 but the lead singer's voice is so damn annoying!

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I was listening to some crooners, and came to the realization that I CANNOT STAND Michael Bublé. I think his renditions of the old standards are soulless and pretentious, and his original pop songs are just bland. My aunt and grandmother are Bublé fans, but they can keep him.

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SoulAlive said:

TD3 said:

Trent D'Arby, use to love this guy, then he became a whiny self-pitting cry baby. Outside forces didn't destroy him or his career, he big ass ego did.

I agree.It's cool to have confidence in yourself,but this guy took it to the extreme.I remember when he his first album came out,he was going around saying that he's better than the Beatles.And when asked about comparisons to Prince,he said in an interview "What's up?! Can't we have two genuises in the same decade?" LMAO

Yes, but "Neither Fish Nor Flesh" (parts of),
"Symphony Or Damn" (all of it), and a little of "Vibrator"
are there to remind us that for a brief moment, he was the next best thing.

SoulAlive said:

mjscarousal said:

But she has a mental illness... its not fair to insist she is "not trying" or mock her when she is medicated." Of course that will automatically affect how she performs, energy, emotion etc.

During her prime (1999-2001) Britney was a good performer and she did put heart in her performances during those years before her mental her break down, I stand by that.

I am not a Britney Spears fan by any measure but I don't get people who imply she has always been this robotic emotionless performer when that is completely not true at all. Also people insist she has always been a "puppet" but so is Beyonce, Katy Perry, and Rihanna who don't write or produce any of their music.

we'll have to agree to disagree I know about her mental illness but even before she had those problems,I still never liked her.As for Beyonce...you know that I am no fan of her (lol) but she at least works hard and puts effort into her career and performances.

I don't think your critiquing Britney Spears fair or objectively.

I do not consider myself to be a Britney Spear's fan at all but to argue that she did not work hard at during performances from 1998-2004 is a flat out lie. Its understandable to say you never cared for her dancing, singing, etc but to insist she did not work hard in her performances during her peak 1998-2004 is not accurate IMO. You really haven't showed any substantial receipts for your argument. I agree that Beyonce works hard in her performances However, I disagree that she puts effort in her career when she has not shown any artistic growth as an artist. Beyonce also hasn't had a mental break down so I am not sure why you would use her as an example. You keep mixing apples and oranges and your opinion doesn't make much sense to me but we can agree to disagree

All these 2001 performances of Britney are good. She is working hard putting effort on stage and in her dance routines

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpgnv7xbNFU [/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk97PAooe_w [/youtube]

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