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[Tack]

It really is a great song.

[Heron TSG]

what on earth are my kids going to listen to when they're older, to shock *me*?

Probably something totally opposite of what you used to shock people with. Crazy screaming music can only get so loud before it becomes dangerous.

[Acanthus117]

Gosh, imagine the world 10 years from now, and they're playing... I dunno, Jason Mraz or something on a Retro station. That scares and excites me.

[Jude]

I'm about 20 years late.

Baby don't hurt me!

Spoiler: Seriously, just look at his face (click to show/hide)

Anyone else nostalgic for a time that they never lived in?

In my "Senior Seminar" (i.e. liberal arts gen-ed that just amounted to two profs rambling about whatever they wanted, and occasionally musing on the fact that OH SHIT YOU'RE GONNA GRADUATE WHAT DO YOU DO WITH YOUR LIFE, one of the profs decided to show us a youtube video of that song in class once...for reasons I could never discern. He actually loved youtube videos. he definitely showed a song from "Grease," at least one Disney movie song, and at one point he was searching for some video and couldn't find it, so he just clicked on a video he thought looked interesting, which turned out to be a Green Day song. Which he let play for about four minutes before saying, "yeah, I guess that's totally irrelevant."

[RedKing]

what on earth are my kids going to listen to when they're older, to shock *me*?

Probably something totally opposite of what you used to shock people with. Crazy screaming music can only get so loud before it becomes dangerous.

Well that's the thing...I never listen to music to shock anyone. People are usually shocked nonetheless, but that's not my fault. If anything, they're shocked more by the genre whiplash (a random CD sampler might go from NIN to Flatt & Scruggs to Darude to Billie Holliday in one go).

So I'm struggling to figure out what possible genre can emerge that would have my yelling, "Turn that damn noise off!" when I'm 50 and crotchety. Ok, MORE crotchety.

[Solifuge]

Some say love is like a river. (never much cared for the song... too sappy... but it fits the theme.)


Judging by current trends in popular music, more and more artists are going to rely on blatant use of Autotuning software to sing in key. They've even gone so far as to make the synth-sounding pitch-bending part of the songs themselves. Problem is, a lot of these people can't hold a note to save their lives, which is really unfortunate in my opinion. I mean, back when I was...

...oh god, it's starting already. I am become Crotchetty, dissaprover of modern songs.

[RedKing]

But you know, I think the really, really blatant use of Auto-Tune is actually okay. It's a whole genre in and of itself.

Somebody like T-Pain is awesome, because he knows it's a gimmick, but it's a gimmick with a niche, and he is making serious bucks off that niche.


But yeah, people who just use it to round off the edges and bad notes in their singing suck.