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The Second Golden Age of Boy Bands
Ah.. do you remember that golden age of pop music known as the boy band era? remember that fuzzy feeling you get when you reminisce on the memories of singing along to the Backstreet boy’s multibillion dollar hit “As long as you love me”? Do you still have that hot poster with justin and the boyZ posing with their arms crossed? Those boy bands that you so sorely miss are back once again on MTV. Its that time again, but something has changed, instead of techno-like melody driven fluff songs, we now have rock-like riff driven fluff songs. Yes.. you may not have noticed that the boy band era is back, but in truth it is currently in full swing. It is only hidden under the cloak of punk rock. This is a startling revelation, is it not? Do you not believe me? Well lets analyze the facts.
Pop Boy Bands
Fan Base: screaming little girls, gay middle aged men, and preps
Songs: beat/melody driven with frou-frou lyrics
Members: 4 to 5
Examples: Backstreet boys, 98 degrees, Nsync
Songs: “Bye Bye Bye,” “Larger Than Life,”
Punk Boy Bands
Fan base: screaming little girls gay middle aged men and preps
Songs: riff/melody driven with frou-frou lyrics
Members: 4 to 5
Examples: Good Charlotte, Simple Plan, Atari, Jimmy eat world
Songs: “Im Addicted to You,” “Swing, Swing”
At first glance, bands such as Good Charlotte can masquerade as legitimate rock bands, but their deception is revealed when, within a matter of months, the air waves are flooded with the incessant sound of the same riff played over and over with a background of pounding power chords. Now that the truth has been set before your eyes, do you choose to accept it? Try to defend your favorite boy band. I want to hear it, go to the Forums and voice your opinion. Enjoy this while it lasts. Remeber this phase is only a fad, and it too will pass.
Another cause for concearn is the ever growing genre of singer/songwriters such as michelle branch and Vennessa Carlton and Avril Lavingne, who also suck. Then there's Hillary Duff (Lizzie McGuire) but thats a disscussion for another day.
Snorks and Smurfs, Long Lost Relatives?
Do you even remeber the Snorks? I know you remeber the Smurfs. The Snorks were tiny, fun-loving multi-colored freaks who lived underwater and loved to frolic in the seaweed. The Smurfs were tiny, fun-loving blue freaks who lived in the magic forest and loved to frolic in the flowers. Let’s compare and contrast the Snorks and the Smurfs. For one, they both had similar themes songs: Smurfs and Snorks. They both look alot alike, except the Snorks evovled tubes on thier heads they blew bubbles out of to propel themselves through thier watery environment. Both Smurfs and Snorks have similar values, such as; frenship, kindness and responsibility. Legend has it that hundreds of years ago, when the land-loving Smurfs were not as civilized, the Smurfs punished a fellow Smurf for eating another Smurf. The renegade Smurf was drowned as his punishment. The Smurf went under a random mutation while he was drowning and evovled a snorkel on his head. He went on to expand the population (how Smurfs and Snorks reproduce is still a scientific mystery) and an entire colony evolved. Mabye the Snorks and Smurfs can have a family reunion... or they could have a war and kill each other... Only the strongest freak-cartoon-race will survive!
Use of Extreme Sports to Sell Snack Foods Disturbing
Extreme sports are all the rage across America. BMX, skateboarding, rollerblading, X-treme rodent corn bowling, and the list goes on. The fact is; sports sells snacks. Kids are into sports therefore snacks are into sports. If lots of kids like to massage highly venonous and deadly snakes, then snack commecials would feature kids massaging deadly snakes while eating the snack they want to sell. Fortunatly, kids do not like massaging deadly snakes, they like extreme sports. If the kids see other kids doing thier favourtie extreme sport while eating thier favourtie extreme snack, then they are bound to buy it. Unfortunatly, it also works the other way around, if a kid sees thier favourite snack mascot eating thier favourite snack while jumping off a 40 foot ramp through six rings of fire and landing in a pit of deadly snakes, then surely there will be a mass of bones and blood fried to a crispy, crunchy
texture being munched on by some deadly snakes. What companies are guilty of this advertisement? Most notably; Chef Boyardee
which features many skateboarding and BMX kids performing tricks over Chef Boyardee cans of Beeforoni. Another shot shows a BMXer wall riding on a brick moral of Chef Boyardee himself. Another snack food company that uses extreme sports to the point that you feel sick in your abdomen is Go-Gurt. What the heck kind of food is that anyway?? Artificially flavoured artificial past suffed in a tube and labeled as "Extreme food for Extreme kids on the go!" The kids selling this crap do extreme stuff with one hand and squeeze multi-colored ooze into thier face with the other. Every commercial (which there are too many) features a diffrent sport. What about Capri Sun drink? Did you see that one with the snowboarders that drink Capri Sun while jumping of the side of a mountain and turn into shiny silver blobs of goo (which looks a little better tha Go-Gurt) and then procede to rocket through the air and in the valleys to
another extreme destination; the beach. Once the blobs reach the beach they morph back into human form and thier snowboards have become surfboards. Is that not a strange way to sell a fruit drink? Another fruity-fun drink guilty of such demented advertising is Disney's X-treme Coolers. Thier commercial features Mickey and the gang playing video games while a rainstorm rages outside. Donald Duck comes in the front door dripping with water, and foreshadowing. He picks up a controller and a bolt of lightning hits the house, transporting them into a space-time vortex filled with various fruits. They come out the others sided into a the video game that they were in. This video game happens to be an extreme sports video game with fruit. Mickey busts some big air on the half pipe using his rocket rollerblades and grabs a bunch of grapes suspended above the ramp. Donald is able to score big points by snatching oranges
on his BMX bike. Goofy grinds down a rail on his skateboard racking up big points by getting apples on the way. This commercial is the strangest and most severe form of the extreme sports obsession. It is really sad when Disney has to resort to such craptacular commercials to sell juice to young people. Disney, combining video games, extreme sports and fruit is never a good idea. Even everyone's favourite nasty turn-your-milk-into-chocolate milk cereal is in the game. Their newest commercial features Sonny the Choco-Bird skateboarding on a half-pipe and suddenly, they have a wierd craving for CocoPuffs. "We're Koo-Koo for CocoPuffs!" they all yell as they pour the cereal down thier throats. Then Sonny skyrockets up above the earth's atmosphere screaming "WWHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!" all the way down. Are they trying to sell steroids in thier cereal? This cereal seems to be suspiciously enhancing the kid's extreme sports power. They all seem to be strangely addicted and obsesed with the cereal. They are Koo-Koo for CocoPuff, is this not a sign of addiction? random cravings, ranting and
eventually death by extreme sports. Today's society is really messed up.
These Are The Biggest Losers I've Seen In A Long Time
Here is a fine example of the Loser disease at its worst. Here at the Loser website, we all have a minor case of Loseritis. Clearly they have a much more severe case of being totally and utterly pathetic. What causes them to become this Loserish? Well, the Loser disease and is a complex genetic disorder that effects everyone, including you, whether you acknowledge it or not. Some Losers, most often with developed cases, admit thier Loserness and feel better about it,(Look at the purple turtle's ambitous expression. He is confident in himself even though he is aware that he is standing in the middle of a mall while wearing what may be the crappiest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles costume ever created) but those who do not are even more Loserish than those who do. If you sincerly believe that you are not in any way a Loser, THEN WHY THE HECK ARE YOU READING THIS ARTICLE?!?!?!!
This Smurf is the Smurfiest Smurfer Ever To Smurf!
There is one thing in the English language that intrests me. That is the distortion and dismemberment of a great langauge. I find it intriguing how words are created, destroyed, altered and butchered. Those obscure little blue midgets named the Smurfs are responsible for some mayhem. With the creation of the Smurfs oh so long ago, a new word was entered into the English vocablulary, the word "Smurf." This is quite the amazing word if you ask any loser. It can be used as an adjective a noun and a verb! I can't think of any other word with such properties. Its absolutly wonderful! Try it: "Gosh, Dad, You're the Smurfiest Smurf that ever Smurfed." What excatly does the word smurf mean? That's another wonderful thing about the word "Smurf" it can take on soo
many Smurfin' meanings. It can mean "Smurf-like" or "pertaining to Smurfs" or "of or as a Smurf" or even whatever you want. Its especially useful when you dont want someone to understand what your saying. "YOU SMURF SMURFIN SMURF SMURFER!!!" What a wonderful word. I must start using it much more often and so should you.
Search For America's Smelliest Crap
Reality shows are the most popular television programming phenomonom today. Nothing can compare to watching a bunch of losers run around completing pointless objectives in the quest to get more money. What show could make millions of Americans glue their glutous glands to the couch during prime-time to view this prime crap? Survivor of course! The mega-popular show everyone knows about even has its own spin-offs like "The Mole" and its even more wrechted counterpart "I'm A Celebrity Get Me Outta Here." (Which features people who are 25% celebrities and 175% insane) Also included in the reality show catergorey for this year's smelliest crap awards are American Idol copy cat shows like "All American Girl" and "Married By America." Despite protests, CBS announced that they are still considering making a reality show about hillbillies. The show will also be called 'Big Brother Who's Also Your Cousin.'"
iBooks For Everyone
If you are viewing this site at this time, you are most likely at school using your wonderful ibook to do so. The ibook is practicly a divine gift from above. This instrument of intellgence aids us in our journey of learning here at the herm. The ibooks are our friends and companions, designated to help us deduce the difficult problems and challenges we face everyday. Unfortunatly, the ibooks can also be used for malicous, non-school purposes. Emailing runs rampant almost unchecked in some cases. Hundreds play online games on sites such as Ping Pong. My concern now shifts away from my fellow classmates to the younger students in middle school who are soon to be blessed with the almighty bliss of an ibook. Will they participate in the same devious activites as thier older role models do? Or will they obstain from any obvious disobiedince in fear of reprocussions from thier newly established ibook guidlines? Is it profitable to put an advanced supercomputer such as the ibook in the hands of eleven or twelve year olds?
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