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Sunday, January 31, 2010
Television The Grammy Awards; or: Popular Culture No Longer Applies to Me
Posted by Eric Grandy on Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 7:43 PM
Watching the Grammy Awards? Think Lady Gaga sweeping everything (I'm guessing) is bullshit? Wondering why anyone gives a fuck about Kings of Leon? Feel free to make this your open thread for comments, gripes, etc.
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re: your title.
do you spend money on entertainment? do you tell other people about entertainment? do you tell a lot of other people about entertainment? do you get paid to tell a lot of other people about entertainment? if you answered yes to any of these, pop culture applies to you. fucking credulous hack licking dan's balls.
do you spend money on entertainment? do you tell other people about entertainment? do you tell a lot of other people about entertainment? do you get paid to tell a lot of other people about entertainment? if you answered yes to any of these, pop culture applies to you. fucking credulous hack licking dan's balls.
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OMG I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT AND AMERICAN IDOL BLOWS SO I'M EDGY AND DISSOCIATED FROM POP CULTURE. fail.
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Whether you sound like a tool or not, can I just say that Autotune sucks and Bon Jovi hasn't been relevant for 20 years. Thank you.
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Popular culture no longer applies to you? Aren't you the same guy who praised the recent #1 album in the US? Bleh..you are as mainstream as it gets.
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They play Vampire Weekend on The Mountain. I heard a suburban dad in his mid-40s listening to them at his convenience store. They're on Gossip Girl. Your taste seems pretty pop culture to me.
And your guess about Lady Gaga was way off.
And your guess about Lady Gaga was way off.
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This whole posts jus' illustrates how mainstream Mr. Grandy really is. His Lady Gaga comment was wishful thinking & there is no real excuse for his Vampire Weekend obsession.
#1 album in the nation, dude!
#1 album in the nation, dude!
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If nothing else, the Grammy's had lots of crotch shots. And I got to drink 6 bottles of champs with friends and mock the shit out of it.
Also, I am not a huge Vampire fan...but I love Passion Pit and they are on commercials, so whatever @Yo. Does that make me a loser too (or someone trying to be edgy? *crossing my fingers!*
Also, I am not a huge Vampire fan...but I love Passion Pit and they are on commercials, so whatever @Yo. Does that make me a loser too (or someone trying to be edgy? *crossing my fingers!*
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Hey! I'm all for enjoying whatever culture it is that a person might like. Hell, I like some Passion Pit myself, but what I don't appreciate are declarative statements such as: "...popular culture no longer applies to me," coming from someone who on a daily basis, with his writing on this here blog, proves otherwise.
When a person can lie to themselves with such impunity, how can you trust anything they might say or write?
When a person can lie to themselves with such impunity, how can you trust anything they might say or write?
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Ohh, and I forgot something: stating that the title of your post was jus' a song lyric that you liked is disingenuous at best.
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hey why not join this stale argument!?
i was under the impression that the art brut song had tones of sarcasm and irony about whether you can ever be completely outside of popular culture in the contemporary world which makes mr. grandy's use of the song title apropriate and confessional that even though everyone dreads and dismisses the grammy's we still kind of enjoy taking pleasure and displeasure in how they turn out and being haters.
kind of like all y'all trolls do to the writers at the stranger.
i was under the impression that the art brut song had tones of sarcasm and irony about whether you can ever be completely outside of popular culture in the contemporary world which makes mr. grandy's use of the song title apropriate and confessional that even though everyone dreads and dismisses the grammy's we still kind of enjoy taking pleasure and displeasure in how they turn out and being haters.
kind of like all y'all trolls do to the writers at the stranger.
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@18:
Speak for yourself honey. I know plenty o' people that watch the Grammies unironically. They actually enjoy the show. To watch something that you actually claim to hate jus' does not compute to me.
And expecting everyone on here to understand the "tones" of an obscure Art Brute lyric, but only stating that after the original post, is cynicism of the highest order.
Speak for yourself honey. I know plenty o' people that watch the Grammies unironically. They actually enjoy the show. To watch something that you actually claim to hate jus' does not compute to me.
And expecting everyone on here to understand the "tones" of an obscure Art Brute lyric, but only stating that after the original post, is cynicism of the highest order.
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kings of leon is an incredibly mediocre bland...band. ke$ha is one out of every ten american girls (seven in ten if your phone number is in the 714 area code.) lady gaga is a factory-formed fashionista. even autotune can be severely off key. i watched a lot of commercials featuring products that were somehow trying to reach my demographic. this is what i learned from the grammy's this year. winning a grammy is like winning the 8th grade talent show, only they're rich.
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