2nd March 2024, 12:21 PM
(This post was last modified: 2nd March 2024, 12:29 PM by Sacred Jellybean.)
I'll start. I don't get why everyone loves David Bowie. It's weird to me when he pops up as a meme (see: Venture Bros and Zoolander). He just seems like some generic dorky British guy (but I repeat myself). Shouldn't he have charisma or something?
I'm not a music aficionado, so I'm probably not the best judge, but his music doesn't seem that great either. Like I've only heard a few popular songs so idk maybe there's more there, but it just seems like crappy 80s pop. His collab with Trent Reznor was cool, but it was Reznor carrying that.
This is probably sacrilege but if I listen to his spotify hits:
Under Pressure: this is stained because the same sample was used in Ice, Ice Baby. Look, if just about the whitest geekiest piece of shitbait in history finds inspiration from your music, you should probably re-evaluate your artistic choices. Mercury's voice is great in this though. Now I just want to listen to Queen.
Starman: the guitar is good but his voice just sounds tepid, like he's working up the nerve to sing in front of someone in the bathroom mirror. Keep it down, bucko.
Okay, I won't go through all of them one-by-one, but... like none of this is terrible, and I'm playing it up, but it's still sailing over my head as to why this guy is exalted. You probably have to have been a kid and watched Labyrinth with the rest of the middle school drama club to fall in love with him for the rest of your life. Fuck, what's wrong with teenagers? I can't believe I used to be one D:
In closing, Space Oddity just came up, and I'll give him this one. Just one.
[edit] I just remembered Dancing in the Streets. That one's real bad too. Someone edited it to make it bearable though.
I'm not a music aficionado, so I'm probably not the best judge, but his music doesn't seem that great either. Like I've only heard a few popular songs so idk maybe there's more there, but it just seems like crappy 80s pop. His collab with Trent Reznor was cool, but it was Reznor carrying that.
This is probably sacrilege but if I listen to his spotify hits:
Under Pressure: this is stained because the same sample was used in Ice, Ice Baby. Look, if just about the whitest geekiest piece of shitbait in history finds inspiration from your music, you should probably re-evaluate your artistic choices. Mercury's voice is great in this though. Now I just want to listen to Queen.
Starman: the guitar is good but his voice just sounds tepid, like he's working up the nerve to sing in front of someone in the bathroom mirror. Keep it down, bucko.
Okay, I won't go through all of them one-by-one, but... like none of this is terrible, and I'm playing it up, but it's still sailing over my head as to why this guy is exalted. You probably have to have been a kid and watched Labyrinth with the rest of the middle school drama club to fall in love with him for the rest of your life. Fuck, what's wrong with teenagers? I can't believe I used to be one D:
In closing, Space Oddity just came up, and I'll give him this one. Just one.
[edit] I just remembered Dancing in the Streets. That one's real bad too. Someone edited it to make it bearable though.