Sometimes I think my local college radio station might be a little too eclectic. It's like they deliberately decided to play a Pixies song, followed by a salsa number, then some polka/punk hybrid tune and to close out the set, "All Night Long" by Lionel Richie in a concentrated effort to say "Hey, look how vast and varied our musical tastes are. Aren't we sooo open-minded?" Frankly I find it very annoying and grotesquely overt, much like this video:
I'm not a musicologist or even a professional asshole critic, but I doubt the fore bearers of the "twee pop" genre intended for their music to be associated with pretentious teens who fetishize naps and knitting. Again, what a blatantly contrived attempt to conform to some preconceived "rules" or norms of a particular subculture. Now, perhaps I'm being too harsh, after all, these are teenagers and everyone knows what a "confusing" time our teen years can be, trying to find our place in the world and hoping someone "gets us." But fuck! Knitting? NAPPING?! BOWL CUTS?! Look, I dig Tiger Trap, Talulah Gosh and Belle & Sebastian before they became a power-pop band as much as the next guy, but I never went around acting like a precious little tool just because I happened to enjoy a "pussified" genre of music.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not, nor have I ever been an "alpha male" type, (I just started getting hair underneath my armpits last Thursday)but give me a break!
Who knows, maybe I'm wrong and these kids are 100% sincere and really are that lame. I can't "see into their hearts/minds" like Jesus or Superman. So sure, they might be annoying assholes with fucked-up haircuts, but at least they have decent taste in music, and that's what really matters, right?
Wow, that was horrible. Uh, yeah, the reason Billie Joe looks so "sad" in the majority of those photos is becuase he's wearing eyeliner and he's OLD! Eyeliner on tired, wrinkled eyes would make anyone look crestfallen! JESUS CHRIST! The person who uploaded this video is a 17-year-old German girl. Normally we would write this off as a "stupid kids will be stupid kids" and "blame it on the "language" barrier" thing, but there is no excuse for this video's utter lack of irony and sheer stupidity! 17 is too old to be carrying on this way, and the German's are not stupid people, so that's not cutting any ice either. Oh, and the real kicker? The final nail in the coffin? Korn covering "Creep" by Radiohead?! The fact that it's Radiohead being covered isn't the problem, it's the fact that KORN has the audacity to cover anyone! It doesn't matter if they're trying their hand at Ricky Martin or The Beatles, you're fucking KORN for God's sake!
