How can anyone not love Rihanna with such deep, meaningful lyrics like "work work work work work, dur dur dur dur dur", not to mention her beautiful voice which most certainly does NOT sound like a prolonged period of flatulence.
mooghead · Member since
Brians 30 seconds of guitar is the same as his million billion seconds of guitar. Fucking just shred the thing for once in your life.
Oscar J · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]The Real Wizard wrote:[/b]
[QUOTE] [b]Rihanna song says:[/b]
Is you big enough Take it, take it
Tonight I'm a let you be the captain I'm a let you be a rider Giddy up
Tonight I'm a let it be fire
Give it to me baby Like boom, boom, boom
Tonight I'm a give it to you harder Tonight I'm a turn your body out[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE] [b]Costa86 wrote:[/b]
Rihanna is one of the better ones. [/QUOTE]
That is terrifying. [/QUOTE]
"Give me, body - give me - body - body - give me your body Don't talk, Baby don't talk Body language Give me your body Just give me your body Give me your body Don't talk"
Also terrifying. Yet we don't judge Freddie solely based on some random lyrics. :)
Listen to this and tell me that's not an interesting little piece of music. [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj4K67UkWBE ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj4K67UkWBE [/url] I personally hear shades of Stevie Wonder's Innervisions in there.
And this is definitely some heartfelt (if a little strained) singing: [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko-2n7DVHzU ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko-2n7DVHzU [/url]
But each to their own.
Costa86 · Member since
She can also turn a simple song into something quite nice. For instance this one: [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe4Ic7fHWf8 ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe4Ic7fHWf8[/url].
It also helps that she's beautiful in a way that the neverending litany of blondes such as Taylor Swift can never be.
luthorn · Member since
Rhianna cannot sing live. I actually tried to listen to her live shows: 85% is playback and the rest is out of tune nasal singing.
That does not change the fact that Love of My Life is a bit boring, but not as boring as brighton rock solo which evolved over the years from an interesting piece to outright crap.
The Real Wizard · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]Costa86 wrote:[/b]
She can also turn a simple song into something quite nice. For instance this one: [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe4Ic7fHWf8 ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe4Ic7fHWf8[/url].
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The first minute is a commercial for body parts, and the song is just so blase - it's a bizarre combination of club pop and out of place flamenco outbursts. It's just so manufactured and insincere.
I've worked with a hundred better singers. She has no vocal range and one style of expression - and it gets old really fast.
And it has over a hundred million views? This is what's passing as music nowadays.
This is product, not music.
Chopin1995 · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]The Real Wizard wrote:[/b]
[QUOTE] [b]Costa86 wrote:[/b]
She can also turn a simple song into something quite nice. For instance this one: [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe4Ic7fHWf8 ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe4Ic7fHWf8[/url].
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The first minute is a commercial for body parts, and the song is just so blase - it's a bizarre combination of club pop and out of place flamenco outbursts. It's just so manufactured and insincere.
I've worked with a hundred better singers. She has no vocal range and one style of expression - and it gets old really fast.
And it has over a hundred million views? This is what's passing as music nowadays.
This is product, not music.
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I agree on that. 'This is product, not music'
I'm bored with omnipresent, ubiquitous half-naked bodies in clips even though I'm 21.
And I personally can't accept auto-tuned vocals
Costa86 · Member since
I agree about the half naked bodies etc., and I generally can't stand most of the manufactured pop of today. But if I do have to listen to it, I prefer Rihanna to some of the others. Music has obviously gone downhill, and countless discussions have been had about this, I'm sure. It reached a high point in the 1960s and 70s, then started gradually declining in the 80s and 90s, and by the 2000s the reduction in quality was marked. There is still quality music, but sometimes you have to struggle to find it amongst the commercially released stuff. But there are worse examples of crap music than Rihanna, and there are also better examples of good current music as well.
thomasquinn 32989 · Member since
Music has not gone downhill, music from the past has gone through a kind of filtering process where all the truly horrendous crap has been totally forgotten. But in the present, we get music as it is released, and as such comparatively unfiltered. The worst of it will be forgotten soon enough.
It's the same with other art forms - we remember the great literature of the 19th century and think "gee, back in the day they were totally spoiled, with great books left and right" - when in fact the 19th century produced more absolute literary crap without any merits whatsoever than any other period I know of. So why do we think of Dickens, Dostoevski, Jane Austen and the likes? Because almost no one has heard of all the terrible books that have been mercifully forgotten, although they represented the vast majority of available reading material.
luthorn · Member since
Muse is a great band to follow. The latest tour lacked in energy, maybe because the band set aside bolivian marching powder. Other than that, they make so great music. Rianna is a rhinoceros in comparison. A good female voice is Miley Cyrus. She really showed her talent in Very Murray Christmas. She is crazy though.
Costa86 · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]thomasquinn 32989 wrote:[/b]
Music has not gone downhill, music from the past has gone through a kind of filtering process where all the truly horrendous crap has been totally forgotten. But in the present, we get music as it is released, and as such comparatively unfiltered. The worst of it will be forgotten soon enough.
It's the same with other art forms - we remember the great literature of the 19th century and think "gee, back in the day they were totally spoiled, with great books left and right" - when in fact the 19th century produced more absolute literary crap without any merits whatsoever than any other period I know of. So why do we think of Dickens, Dostoevski, Jane Austen and the likes? Because almost no one has heard of all the terrible books that have been mercifully forgotten, although they represented the vast majority of available reading material.[/QUOTE]
I don't quite agree.
If you take for instance the film industry, I think this is an area where quality has been maintained.
From the Golden Age of Hollywood, to the New Hollywood era of Pacino, DeNiro, Hoffman, etc., and to the current era, there have always been great actors and great films. There are great movies being produced by Hollywood and by other countries such as Sweden, France, Germany and Japan, and it's very easy to name a great recent movie, even from the past few months. Actors haven't markedly declined in quality either. While we may not have too many Oliviers or Brandos, we still have people like DiCaprio and Norton, who stand on the shoulders of giants.
Some of the best films ever made come from the 1990s (e.g. Goodfellas, Fargo, Pulp Fiction), and nobody can say Goodfellas is inferior to Citizen Kane, for instance, which is another masterpiece.
But can you mention one single song from the past 20 years which is as good as Kashmir, or Bohemian Rhapsody, or A Day In The Life, or A Whiter Shade of Pale, or Nights In White Satin?
There has always been bad music, this is indisputable. But its incidence has increased - and not only that - the bar for quality music has been lowered. When we would once have had to hear a Stairway to Heaven or a Hey Jude to say "this is a really, really good song", we now hear "Someone Like You" and proclaim it to be really good. "Someone Like You" is a very good song, but not in the league of the ones I mentioned.
If you look below the surface of what immediately comes on on the radio, then you'll find quality current music. But there was a time when the airwaves were full of good songs.
Where are our modern-day The Beatles, Dire Straits, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Jimi Hendrix, The Beach Boys, Eagles, The Kinks, Donovan, David Bowie, Elton John, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Leonard Cohen, Simon & Garfunkel, etc.? We struggle to name more than a few really great bands from the last decade, only Radiohead, Muse, The Killers and Coldplay come to mind. It's the same story with singers.
BETA215 · Member since
I think that the last great albums were released in the late 2000's. After that, no album ever got me impressed.
Holly2003 · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]Costa86 wrote:[/b]
But can you mention one single song from the past 20 years which is as good as Kashmir, or Bohemian Rhapsody, or A Day In The Life, or A Whiter Shade of Pale, or Nights In White Satin?
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Don't disagree with the rest of your quote but I would argue Paranoid Android by Radiohead or Blackbird by Alter Bridge are up there with the songs you mentioned.
