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Post by Partridge on Feb 25, 2022 1:57:25 GMT -5
Boss, where is your new bottom quote from? I probably should know it. Still waking up with my java. eddiejinfl As I said before, I'm not a fan of reactions to songs on youtube. But that one-liner is my reaction to the Beatles song "Why Don't We Do It In the Road?" I've always been a lyric person and the lyrics to that song just never hit home with me. The White Album is one that took me about 50 years to appreciate, and I still think it is a bloated mess. My wife says I analyze TV/ songs/ media too much. Probably because I criticize her favorites so much. But I have always been that way. I've been thinking recently of my reactions to songs when I first heard them as a child. Return to Sender- Elvis Presley. Even as a child I thought this song bothered me because it would be impossible to send a letter and have it come back "the very next day." It would take a two-day turnaround at least. Walking After Midnight- Patsy Cline. I thought the woman in this song had some serious mental problems, walking around after midnight. Reminded me of some of my close relatives. We had a record by Neil Sedaka in the house; I cannot remember which one. I did not like it and I thought Neil was a strange name for a female singer. And then many years later I heard his comeback song, Laughter in the Rain, on the radio. Again I thought it was a female singer until they identified him. By then I knew he was a man though. I even bought the album. |
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Post by rick on Feb 25, 2022 7:35:37 GMT -5
Well said, Mr. Partridge. I think it sort of comes down to the catchphrase on "Antiques Roadshow" -- "one person's trash is another person's treasure." A song might be my favorite but not someone else's cup of tea, and vice-versa.
Not sure about the rest of you, but it seems lately more and more here in Southern California a number of TV commercials feature rap music (one is for that Skinny Pop, and the commercials seem to be bundled to run close together). I have to reach for the remote control to mute it. There's something about the cadence of it and the BOOM-BOOM-BOOM that doesn't fit with my ears. In "Annie Hall," after Diane Keaton's character Annie Hall leaves to be with Paul Simon's pop singer character Tony Lacey, Annie meets up with her ex-boyfriend Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) and Keaton gets up to leave and says that Tony is up for a lot of Grammys. And Alvy responds: "They give out awards for that? I thought they just gave out earplugs." I am probably just old but that's how I feel about a lot of music today.
Mr. Partridge, like you, I just don't get these "reaction" videos. I realize not everybody lives in my same bubble but it seems strange to me that no one has ever heard "Blue Bayou" in their life prior to making wild facial expressions in front of a YouTube camera as they listen supposedly for the first time.
I'm guessing people are making money off of these "reaction" videos. Again. I'm old.
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Post by erik on Feb 25, 2022 10:04:33 GMT -5
It always feels to me as if these "reaction" videos on YouTube seem...how shall I put this...phony. There's just so many of them out there, and they all seem to be almost formatted.
As to rap music being used in TV commercials--I can attest to what Rick is saying, as I too am a SoCal native and I see plenty of such TV commercials. I am really not a fan of the most popular rap music because so much of it is very misogynistic and at times even homophobic. When it deals with social issues facing the African-American community in a direct and creative way (and minimizes the profanity), then there's more there there, so to speak, in rap.
One of the things I remember listening to the radio when I was much younger was hearing Disco, which, as I've read, was developed out of the gay (or what we now call LGBTQ) sub-culture of the early 1970's, and hearing it mixed it with a lot of other different pop and rock styles, including of course Linda. And then much later on, I also read about the extreme reactions that many rock and roll fans had to it--the "Disco Sucks" movement, which I absolutely didn't get back then, and I definitely don't get it now. If Linda's extreme popularity during the period of 1975-1980, when Disco was at its apex, was any indication, rock and roll was never going to be displaced by it. Even as recently as 2018, director Steven Spielberg paid homage to Disco in his virtual reality sci-fi opus READY PLAYER ONE with a dance sequence featuring no less than the Bee Gees' "Staying Alive" booming on the soundtrack; and I recall many people in the theater chuckling with delight at that.
Like Rick, I guess I am someone not really fitted to the third decade of the 21st century--and I'm 51, which of course doesn't help (LOL). Still, I try to look for the good stuff of this era and promote it, as I have done here with Tift Merritt, who is both strikingly contemporary Americana and in the "old school" tradition of Linda and Emmylou. It never hurts to look (IMHO).
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Post by Dianna on Jul 17, 2022 17:30:29 GMT -5
I think this is one of the best, "reaction," videos I've ever seen. Hilarious.
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Post by sliderocker on Jul 18, 2022 23:03:39 GMT -5
As I said before, I'm not a fan of reactions to songs on youtube. But that one-liner is my reaction to the Beatles song "Why Don't We Do It In the Road?" I've always been a lyric person and the lyrics to that song just never hit home with me. The White Album is one that took me about 50 years to appreciate, and I still think it is a bloated mess.
I watch some of the fan reaction videos and I guess the reason there are so many of them is the fact that someone had the initial success, and everyone decided they too could do that. As Erik says, some of the reactions feel phony. I completely agree, but I think those reacting simply want to attract a large audience.
As for Why Don't We Do It in the Road, that was John's favorite Paul song off the White Album. And I suppose part of the reason for that was because he, George and Ringo had no part of it. It was all Paul. It was during the White Album that Paul started to get on everyone's nerves with his quest for perfection. I recall that John was playing piano on Ob Bla Di, Ob La Da, and nothing was making Paul happy about the playing. They went through a lot of takes before John, finally fed up, angrily plays the piano. But, the White Album was indeed a bloated mess.
Return to Sender- Elvis Presley. Even as a child I thought this song bothered me because it would be impossible to send a letter and have it come back "the very next day." It would take a two-day turnaround at least.
One would think, but I once mailed a Stephen King book to a friend in Australia because she was a very big Stephen King fan and wanted to have his newest book because it would still be a few months before it was released in Australia. The book cost as much to mail as it did to buy (damned book was like 10 pounds) but the interesting thing was it was expected to take 30 days to arrive in Australia. It arrived in three days! That blew my mind in a very big way. I think it was possible back in the day of Return to Sender for a letter to come back the very next day. My dad was a postman and seemed like the local mail stayed with the local post office and did not travel to the next largest city, to be sent onto the mail hub in Dallas or Memphis to be resent back to the original city to be delivered. I think the post office forgot the KISS method, keep it simple, stupid!
Walking After Midnight- Patsy Cline. I thought the woman in this song had some serious mental problems, walking around after midnight. Reminded me of some of my close relatives.
Now, this is spooky because I also had the same reaction to the song. Someone with a serious mental problem, walking after midnight. And maybe a stalker. Patsy could certainly send chills down your spine with some of the songs she did. Her version of Bob Wills's Faded Love gave me goose pimples just listening to it. Still does today. Elvis recorded the song in 1970 in a rock arrangement which some might have thought had no right to work but it did.
We had a record by Neil Sedaka in the house; I cannot remember which one. I did not like it and I thought Neil was a strange name for a female singer. And then many years later I heard his comeback song, Laughter in the Rain, on the radio. Again I thought it was a female singer until they identified him. By then I knew he was a man though. I even bought the album.
Just a funny to add here to my reaction to your post: one of Cher's first records was Phil Spector-produced recording, I Love Ringo, a tribute to the Beatles drummer. Spector did something to the recording, slowed it down perhaps. And that made those who heard the song think Cher was a man. Sonny Bono was so angry with Spector he wanted to punch his lights out. Don't know if Sonny ever got to Phil (the two had worked together previously) but Cher's record is today considered a cult classic and novelty. I wonder if Sonny is chasing Phil all over the afterlife trying to punch him for making Cher sound like a man?
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Post by Dianna on Jul 19, 2022 22:01:17 GMT -5
Regarding Neil Sedaka... During the early 70's when "Laughter in the rain," was a hit...I remember my aunt telling us, her co-workers' husband was in love with the woman's voice who sang, "Laughter in the rain." I know Sedaka was a teen idol in the 50's so by 1974 many had forgotten and his style had changed a lot. I had the 45. loved it. lol
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Post by rick on Jul 21, 2022 17:31:05 GMT -5
Happened to do a search and this popped up --
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Post by musedeva on Jul 22, 2022 0:30:07 GMT -5
WhoAAAHHH!!!
/////does he dust or vaccuum all ah those???
THAT IS incredible!!!
...forgot all bout this song!! Luv seeing the cross the border love of J.D......WOW!!!
...he KNOWS his stuff!!
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