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Will.i.am song to blast out from Mars

  • 28-08-2012 12:06PM
    #1
    Priori
    Closed Accounts Posts: 421 ✭✭


    So, it's come to this.

    The first song Humanity broadcasts on another planet (a very significant cultural milestone if you ask me) and it's by this guy.

    Of all the great musical works the human race has produced down the ages, it's a contemporary Rapper/Hip-Hop artist that gets the nod. Money talks I guess.

    Please tell me I'm not the only person bothered by this... :(



    [edit] On further reflection I'm not so bothered; there have been many songs "broadcasted" beyond our planet before this one (eg), so I've maybe over reacted a bit! And thanks astrofool, I'm sure I must be wrong about it being the first song being broadcast from another planet.


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  • #2
    DrumSteve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    Is there any way we can send him with it?


  • #3
    GalwayGuy2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,269 ✭✭✭GalwayGuy2


    Sorry, but his This is Love song is perfect for it.

    The fields of Athenry wouldn't be a good one:P


  • #4
    Basq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,495 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    In space, no-one can hear autotune..


  • #5
    Kenno90
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,184 ✭✭✭Kenno90


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFks9A9TCF0


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,464 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The only song that should be used is Ride Of The Valkyries.


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  • #7
    Sykk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


    Priori wrote: »

    Please tell me I'm not the only person bothered by this... :(

    Probably not. But people are "bothered" by very stupid things way too often these days.

    A rover weighing over 1 tonnes has landed on a planet with an average distance distance about 225 million km away from Earth. Why care what's sent back as broadcast testing..


  • #8
    Bipolar Joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    If they were gonna make it a recent song, I vote for "Around The World" by Daft Punk. I think the Martians would appreciate robots more, plus it'll make Curiosity feel like he has kin singin' to him.


  • #9
    FatherLen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    any link op?


  • #10
    Tabnabs
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 16,057 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    This, if only for the very first line...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmVusVh4TRQ


  • #11
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Should have been this............ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJVPD5vrlrU&feature=player_embedded


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  • #12
    Priori
    Closed Accounts Posts: 421 ✭✭Priori


    Sykk wrote: »
    Probably not. But people are "bothered" by very stupid things way too often these days.

    You can trivialise it all you want - in fact, it's possible to trivialise almost anything of cultural significance if you reduce it to physical terms.


  • #13
    Priori
    Closed Accounts Posts: 421 ✭✭Priori


    FatherLen wrote: »
    any link op?

    Here you go.


  • #14
    mikeym
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,992 ✭✭✭mikeym


    Yawn.


  • #15
    astrofool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,072 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    The beagle probe was meant to "blast out" a few notes by Blur when it landed on Mars. I'm sure music has been used before in verification tones between us and probes/satellites.


  • #16
    stateofflux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭stateofflux


    now those aliens definitely know the limited brain capability of humans and are on their way


  • #17
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Does earth really want war with Mars? :eek:


  • #18
    Colmustard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭Colmustard


    OP I agree surely something from Beethoven or Mozart or westlife.

    I suppose its all about democratisation inclusiveness and popular support.


  • #19
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Will.i.am mentioned it two months ago


  • #20
    BrendaN_f
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 215 ✭✭BrendaN_f


    there's nothing about mozart's (or any artist's) music that makes it inherently better than william's. music is music, and that is the song that was chosen. no point trying to please some stiff with a stick up his ass


  • #21
    Bad Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭Bad Panda


    We Gotta Get Out of this Place by The Animals would've been a bit more apt.


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  • #22
    Madam_X
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Madam_X


    BrendaN_f wrote: »
    there's nothing about mozart's (or any artist's) music that makes it inherently better than william's. music is music
    Indeed. In the same way that there's nothing about Dickens' literature that makes it inherently better than the Twilight series. Shur books are books.

    The album by X Factor winner Mat Cardle, and The Beatles' white album? Same thing really. Music is music.


  • #23
    ronan45
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭ronan45


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bje_8Y7KUfM


  • #24
    Dave0301
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,939 ✭✭✭Dave0301


    Probably would have backfired.....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ_6wOe3tLM


  • #25
    dhmusic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 71 ✭✭dhmusic


    BrendaN_f wrote: »
    there's nothing about mozart's (or any artist's) music that makes it inherently better than william's. music is music, and that is the song that was chosen. no point trying to please some stiff with a stick up his ass

    From a 100% deaf persons point of view.

    It's junk food music with NASA attempting to appeal to the happy clapper type folk that make up the majority of humanity.


  • #26
    _Puma_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,098 ✭✭✭_Puma_


    If will.I.am's song is played on Mars and there is no one around to hear it, is it still ****e :D?!


  • #27
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZS2-4-iUJ4


  • #28
    BrendaN_f
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 215 ✭✭BrendaN_f


    Madam_X wrote: »
    Indeed. In the same way that there's nothing about Dickens' literature that makes it inherently better than the Twilight series. Shur books are books.

    The album by X Factor winner Mat Cardle, and The Beatles' white album? Same thing really. Music is music.
    depending on who you ask, some people would much prefer to read twilight than some dickens novel, and why not? not everybody enjoys the same things you do

    dhmusic wrote: »
    From a 100% deaf persons point of view.

    It's junk food music with NASA attempting to appeal to the happy clapper type folk that make up the majority of humanity.
    yeah, let's please the minority instead, THAT makes sense


  • #29
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    The theme tune to "Lost in Space" would of been quite fun. T'is a shame, seems geeks don't get nostalgic for geeky stuff these days.


  • #30
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    He should be blasted with peas.


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  • #31
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 33,054 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    could go two ways. either Aliens will see it as an act of war/insult and destroy us or they'll be terrified.


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