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    #62
    donegal_road
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭donegal_road


    Cascading Waterfall wrote: »
    Get your ears tested so, it might be fashionable to criticise Lady Gaga's music but she is clearly talented, hard working and puts plenty of authentic emotion into her work.

    ok, you've convinced me now, she is great :)



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    #63
    jimgoose
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    Cascading Waterfall wrote: »
    Get your ears tested so, it might be fashionable to criticise Lady Gaga's music but she is clearly talented, hard working and puts plenty of authentic emotion into her work.

    Snuh? Buh! I dunno about any of that, but the young wan has great legs! :cool:


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    #64
    Mr Benevolent
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    faustino1 wrote: »
    I listen to all kinds of music too and I think Lady Gaga/Katy Perry are absolute rubbish.

    You may as well include Boyzone and Westlife in your collection of music.

    None of them write their own music anyway so what's really behind their popularity? Their image...that's it.

    On the production end of things, the engineers/musicians create music with vague lyrics and sounds that evoke different kinds of emotion in the impressionable listener.

    Attach emotions to lyrics through sounds even if the lyrics mean absolutely nothing at all... which is the formula for most popular music today.

    Britney Spears, Rihanna, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga...It's all the same drivel, it's garbage.

    If you're humming to this stuff . . .I doubt you've really listened to Jazz at all. :D

    Meh, another music snob.


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    #65
    wildlifeboy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭wildlifeboy


    I think you are wrong harking back to music from the 90's saying it was harmless. i was 12 in 1991 and gangsta rap was in its infancy. it may not have been mainstream but it mentioned everything and more from what i read a few posts back. Look up some of ice t's lyrics. a few choice lyrics from Metalica also spring to mind. this is the same old they didnt do that in my generation bull. the most worrying thing about today is that i can see some dude jizz on a girls face within two clicks of a mouse. that is far more worrying for me.


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    #66
    Karl Stein
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    Wibbs wrote: »
    The Ireland of the 50's was significantly less violent and there was less crime in general.

    As regards violence I'm guessing that you're not considering children being beaten by their parents, teachers and older siblings, 'domestic' violence against women by spouses, industrial schools, prisons and psychiatric hospitals.

    There may be more 'headline violence', but I'd argue that violence was as pervasive back then as it is now and probably more acceptable as a societal norm. It wasn't unusual to see a child get a hard whack on the street even in my own time (born in the 70's) - that's pretty taboo these days (in public at least).


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    #67
    ScumLord
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    Jimmy Garlic wrote: »
    It is all debased, dehumanising, mind numbing poison. It is not music.
    Give it some credit, it's a highly engineered product. The goal is to make money and they're achieving that goal.
    Wibbs wrote: »
    Why was it lower?
    Many believed they would actually go to hell too. There isn't much crime in many totalitarian states but they're still not nice places to live.

    I would agree though that the sense of community back then made a huge difference, not just because you would have protection from the flock but because the whole community probably knew your mother and would tell on you should you do anything wrong. That works right into adulthood.


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    #68
    Nodin
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    Wibbs wrote: »
    The Ireland of the 50's was significantly less violent and there was less crime in general. I did have a link somewhere I'll try and dig it out. I also had a link to a pic I took of the front page of the Evening Press(late 50's IIRC) and one of the headlines, headline mind you, was about a woman who had her purse snatched as she was going to make payment on a pilgrimage type holiday. That wouldn't make the papers these days unless she ended up in the hospital(and even then)..

    Lowest rates in the history of the state. Also the time of the highest amount of Emigration, which classically involves the male demographic of the age most likely to be involved in crime.


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    #69
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Jimmy Garlic wrote: »
    The difference between mainstream music when I was a teenager (early to mid 90s) and now is phenomenal. A massive shift in less than two decades.
    You weren't around for what happened at the end of the 70's were you ?

    electronic music, every week there were sounds that no one had ever heard before,

    and with Punk the nihilism wasn't purely done for marketing purposes


    most of todays music is big business, blame the record company execs if you find lyrics offensive


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    #70
    holystungun9
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    I am lost for words. I really am.


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    #71
    coffee_cake
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    wildlifeboy wrote: »
    the most worrying thing about today is that i can see some dude jizz on a girls face within two clicks of a mouse. that is far more worrying for me.

    Why, do you think it should be one click? Or three? Or that it should be banned?


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    #72
    Sky King
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    wildlifeboy wrote: »
    the most worrying thing about today is that i can see some dude jizz on a girls face within two clicks of a mouse.

    What kind of niche porn is that? Sounds interesting.


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    #73
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    Cascading Waterfall wrote: »
    Get your ears tested so, it might be fashionable to criticise Lady Gaga's music but she is clearly talented, hard working and puts plenty of authentic emotion into her work.

    Manufactured image and manufactured controversy, a rip off of a young Madonna. Zero substance.


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    #74
    Latchy
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    Cathal Cloch wrote: »
    As regards violence I'm guessing that you're not considering children being beaten by their parents, teachers and older siblings, 'domestic' violence against women by spouses, industrial schools, prisons and psychiatric hospitals.

    There may be more 'headline violence', but I'd argue that violence was as pervasive back then as it is now and probably more acceptable as a societal norm. It wasn't unusual to see a child get a hard whack on the street even in my own time (born in the 70's) - that's pretty taboo these days (in public at least).
    100% right .Turning the other cheek was the norm in De Valeras Ireland which was as suppressive as it was violent .


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    #75
    wicklowstevo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 919 ✭✭✭wicklowstevo


    yes we are all going to die in a huge and justified ball of fire as retribution for exactly this kind of trash, thank fcuk


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    #76
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    wicklowstevo wrote: »
    yes we are all going to die in a huge and justified ball of fire as retribution for exactly this kind of trash, thank fcuk

    It rots the mind.


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