Current mood:

unaperciated

Been a while since we had a Grobanwank...
... but the other day, I logged on to good ol' Friends of Josh Groban and there it was. It's like clockwork.

So today, 'amathist82' (who doesn't capitalize or punctuate any better than she spells), is taking exception to criticism of her hero:

amathist82: Ok my fellow grobanites. Today my mom took my brother to the doctor. While she was waiting she read a copy of the Hollywood Reporter Which had an article about Josh in it, LIttle did she know that the article was a bad one which talked about Josh's "insecurities and "unconfident stage presence"During the shrine concert The article stated I paraphrase that the crowed became silent because from the momet that our guy opened his mouth we thought he was Terrible. I can't believe that someone would have the toneasity to say something like that. I know that we all love Josh so feel free to post just how much you love him on this thread.

It's like a badficcer scorned... this isn't really terribly wanky for FoJG, since they can't bear to hear their idol put down by anyone. But then, the rest of the club starts breaking jurisimprudence laws right and left!

hizatheart: When are they just going to "get him"? He is not insecure, he is sincere!!! To say he was terrible makes me believe the author is tone-deaf. He may not like Josh's style of music but to say the audience "hated him" is ridiculous. What did he think the grobanlights were, signals to stop singing?

jpluvsjg: these "SO CALLED CRITICS" aren`t worth waisting my time on, i think they are just plain "JEALOUS" and as Michelle said, we were silent cuz we wanted to hear every note he sang and every word he said Josh knows how much he is loved, and thats all that matters

RainbowExplorer: JUST ONCE, I'd like one of this "totally out of contact with reality" critics to get up on stage in front of thousands of people and perform even one tenth as good as Josh & Company does!! They couldn't begin to do it!

They don't like his music because it's too high quality for them. They don't want to admit it, so they trash him instead. As David Foster so perfectly says it, Josh "has the goods". The critics just don't know what to do with that! Fortunately, we don't have to pay any attention to them because Josh is a hit in his own right! WAHOO!!!!!!!!

Other highlights include:

JEFRITZ: AHHH!!! Those people irritate me so much!! I attended the Chicago concert and I wasn't a grobanite yet...I have perfect pitch and I have to say FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE...I truly enjoyed the concert because NOT ONCE did Josh go off pitch at all!!! And I notice so much more than the "normal ear". It was the BEST concert I have ever been to...and I've been to a lot!!! Josh is a true musician!! I think people like that should be SHOT!! They have no clue...and unfortunately some people actually believe that crap!! Well, we know different...then we can have Josh to ourselves!!

JoshSweetie787: JOSH IS A WOUDERFUL PERFORM AND SINGING THAT GUY HAD NOT RIGHT TO SAY THOSE MEAN THINKS LIKE THAT ABOUT ARE WOUDERFUL TALETED JOSH.
JOSH HAS GOD GIVEN VOICE THAT NO ONE ON THIS EARTH CAN TAKE AWAY FROM HIM. I THINK HIS STAGE PRANCE IS WOUDERFUL.
I LOVE JOSH GROBAN AND I AM PROUD TO SAY THAT I AM HIS FAN FOREVER.

JEJE

michiganfan: Cannot say I have ever read the Hollywood Reporter! But would'nt it be nice if we had "outhouses " that would be a good place to hang that particular newspaper..shame on them..Betty from Michigan.

Stop being in my fandom. You're making my fandom look stupid.

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	beccastareyes 2004-04-22 03:22 pm UTC (link)
	-_- You know, I've seen people react less wankily when they themselves get criticised. Honestly, it's not like these people's sucess in life is tied to the percieved talent of Josh Groban. (Reply to this)

	seventy_three 2004-04-22 03:45 pm UTC (link)
	"Toneasity?" Is that some sort of official music term? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	sagralisse 2004-04-22 04:49 pm UTC (link)
	Was she going for audacity or tenacity? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	squib 2004-04-23 06:00 am UTC (link)
	I vote for temerity. Although I rather like the idea of all those ~~tenacious~~ tonacious critics better. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sagralisse 2004-04-23 03:33 pm UTC (link)
	Oh yeah, temerity. That was on the tip of my brain! snerk Okay, I looked it up and found this: TEMERITY suggests boldness arising from rashness and contempt of danger. OMG TEH GORBANETTS WIL HAF THERE REVINGE!!! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	naeelah 2004-04-23 05:08 am UTC (link)
	definitely not a real music term maybe she was going for tonality? I don't recall the context... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	starherd 2004-04-23 05:33 am UTC (link)
	distracted where are skrump and hooglyboo? :-D (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	yee! naeelah 2004-04-23 05:39 am UTC (link)
	They're recovering from the wrath of my button hook. ;) You're the first person in all my years of using this handle to make any reference to its source! Yay you! (I trust there have been a few people who recognized it -- I once posted to a group on Usenet that only had like 15 posters and one of them was named Figbash -- but none have mentioned it.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: yee! yankthewank 2004-04-23 08:48 am UTC (link)
	Love your icon. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: yee! starherd 2004-04-23 11:54 pm UTC (link)
	For some reason i always loved those names, so i named various toys after them. Hooglyboo is a chestbutster from the '90's Aliens action figure line. :-) My baby has books with funny scratchy pictures... Yay Edward Gorey... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	flax 2004-04-22 04:45 pm UTC (link)
	um. Josh who? hides (Reply to this)(Thread)

	sagralisse 2004-04-22 05:18 pm UTC (link)
	Pretty boy, sings real good (from what I've heard). (Reply to this)(Parent)

	isntitironic 2004-04-22 06:47 pm UTC (link)
	Pretty fellow, sexy voice, small but intensely wanky fandom. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sagralisse 2004-04-22 04:52 pm UTC (link)
	::perk:: Josh has a stage prance? Is that on video somewhere? (Reply to this)

panthea
2004-04-22 05:20 pm UTC (link)

JUST ONCE, I'd like one of this "totally out of contact with reality" critics to get up on stage in front of thousands of people and perform even one tenth as good as Josh & Company does!! They couldn't begin to do it!

"I'd like to see YOU write a rilly rilly good fanfic! I bet you can't! That's why you make fun of mine, 'cause you're JEALOUS!"

People really are the same everywhere, aren't they? Depressing. And, well, amusing as hell.

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meshou
2004-04-22 06:01 pm UTC (link)

/JUST ONCE, I'd like one of this "totally out of contact with reality" critics to get up on stage in front of thousands of people and perform even one tenth as good as Josh & Company does!! They couldn't begin to do it!/

Dude, if they could get up on stage and do comparably as well as Josh, they wouldn't be critics, they'd be off making money. Come to think of it, same goes for me, and the Grobanites, and the members of F_W.

But since our hearing, our sense of taste, and our snark are still in tact, we wank on and still think "Glitter" was teh suck.

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	sesana 2004-04-22 06:02 pm UTC (link)
	They don't like his music because it's too high quality for them. They don't want to admit it, so they trash him instead. So Groban is just way too good for a professional music critic to like him? I'm confused. Is that some new offshoot of "ur jist jeluss"? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	sagralisse 2004-04-22 07:12 pm UTC (link)
	I didn't realize that professional music critics were actually just those mean girls who made everyone's life miserable in high school. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: sesana 2004-04-23 06:59 am UTC (link)
	Isn't everybody? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sagralisse 2004-04-23 03:28 pm UTC (link)
	Oh yeah! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	gal_montag 2004-04-22 07:41 pm UTC (link)
	Reminds me of BSB back in the day. OMG!WTF! BSB ROOLZ AND NSUCK SUX!!!111ONE NICK IS SO HOTT AND AJ IS SO SEXAY AND TEY HEV TEH BEST MOOZIK EVAR! sniffles Good wank never dies. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	byagghametta 2004-04-22 08:10 pm UTC (link)
	sniffles Good wank never dies It just gets a new fandom. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	isntitironic 2004-04-22 09:23 pm UTC (link)
	That ought to be an icon. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	byagghametta 2004-04-22 10:16 pm UTC (link)
	In-deed. Unfortunately I suck at making them, so..yes. XD (Reply to this)(Parent)

	starherd 2004-04-22 11:14 pm UTC (link)
	...and the image should involve something morphing (or at least fading) into something else. Like, Darth Vader morphing into Sauron or, or, or, Brittany morphing into Josh or something. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	beccastareyes 2004-04-23 01:00 am UTC (link)
	Don't tempt me, I have a history paper due. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	I should be sleeping soloset 2004-04-23 06:21 am UTC (link)
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	Re: I should be sleeping starherd 2004-04-23 11:56 pm UTC (link)
	LOL I are an happy camper now :-D (Reply to this)(Parent)

	thoms 2004-04-23 05:25 am UTC (link)
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(Anonymous)
2004-04-22 08:28 pm UTC (link)

"Toneasity" is officially my new favorite typo. Yes, "cofmortabally" is still one of the funniest manglings of an English word I've ever seen, but "toneasity" manages to convey the writer's intention -- that the critic is a tone-ass -- while simultaneously inventing a new word and being really funny.

I also like the poster who doesn't want to "waist" her time. That makes me think of panty-girdles for some strange reason.

GhilleDhu on LJ

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	dawnswalker 2004-04-22 08:34 pm UTC (link)
	"I THINK HIS STAGE PRANCE* IS WOUDERFUL."* Stage prance, eh? We all know what prancing means. Nudge nudge, wink wink? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	angkgriffen 2004-04-22 09:14 pm UTC (link)
	The STAGE PRANCE was definitely my favourite part of this post. Yep. :D (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2004-04-23 09:51 pm UTC (link)
	SAY NO MORE, sir; say no more! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mariagoner 2004-04-26 12:11 pm UTC (link)
	::gaaaaaaaaaasp!:: Buh, buh... Josh has a GILRFRIENND! A PURTY BLOND girlfrind! HE CANOT be of TEH GAY! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	angkgriffen 2004-04-22 09:16 pm UTC (link)
	When will people learn that quotation marks are not to be used for emphasis? facepalm (Reply to this)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2004-04-23 05:42 am UTC (link)
	icon love. that's all I have to say. -jess (Reply to this)(Parent)

(Anonymous)
2004-04-22 10:51 pm UTC (link)

Fortunately, we don't have to pay any attention to them because Josh is a hit in his own right! WAHOO!!!!!!!!

Oh no. Wait until the media's gets a-holda of these snippets from RainbowExplorer's (http://snrs.unl.edu/amet351/graf/bows.html) rant. They'll play them ad infinitum until she's just a hollow shell of a ~~fangirl~~ ~~human being~~ fuman ging. Just goes to show you to STFU.

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truculent
2004-04-22 11:58 pm UTC (link)

I can't believe that someone would have the toneasity to say something like that.

Wow....that "toneasity" hurts my brain. It took me several read-throughs to realize which word she was going for there.

I have perfect pitch and I have to say FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE...I truly enjoyed the concert because NOT ONCE did Josh go off pitch at all!!!

Uh, perfect pitch means you hear a note and go "ah, A-flat." It's a different thing than being able to recognize that someone is in tune throughout a song. So unless she's saying she went to the concert and went "Damn, that was quite the G-sharp!" through the whole thing....having perfect pitch would be unrelated, except in a sort of tangential way, to recognizing that he sang in tune.

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	wereleggo 2004-04-23 01:19 am UTC (link)
	In order for that to work, she'd have to have the piece - the entire concert, actually - memorized. Then she'd know when he was off or not. Also, perfect pitch? Who cares? Doesn't make you smart OR a good musician. (Reply to this)(Parent)

naeelah
2004-04-23 05:18 am UTC (link)

Not to mention that everyone I've ever known who has perfect pitch takes a second or two to name a pitch. So it would probably difficult to be able to identify every note as he sang it, unless she already had every song memorized. (although, I don't have perfect pitch and I notice if someone sings a wrong note live-- because I've heard a melody so many times that I have it in my ear. I just can't tell you what the notes are...)

On a topic completely unrelated to the wank: What I want to know is how people with perfect pitch react to being in countries that use different frequencies. Pitch is not standardized, throughout time or space.

In any case, as a musician, I can say with great authority that people who think that the hallmark of a great performance is flawless intonation have their priorities in the wrong spot (or are simply stupid-- YMMV).

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truculent
2004-04-23 05:23 am UTC (link)

(although, I don't have perfect pitch and I notice if someone sings a wrong note live-- because I've heard a melody so many times that I have it in my ear. I just can't tell you what the notes are...)

Yeah, that's what I was kinda trying to say--I definitely don't have perfect pitch, but once someone starts singing, I can tell if they stay on-key. Or if there's a band behind them, I can tell if they're off-key from the band. I just can't go "Oh, that's a C!"

But being able to go "Oh, that's a C!" is not something anyone cares about regarding musical performance. You care if they're in tune, which perfect pitch is irrelevant to!

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naeelah
2004-04-23 05:36 am UTC (link)

Without having perfect pitch I can't say for sure, but it seems like it wouldn't be completely irrelevant to tuning. If you can sing any note perfectly without reference, then that means you could recognize whether or not a note was exactly in tune. I think. But then, pitch is highly relative, in that some notes are played slightly high or flat to suit the voice leading, the key, the instrument, etc. So the note is technically not in tune (not the perfect frequency) and in tune, at the same time...

I've always been glad I didn't have perfect pitch :p

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ladybirdsleeps
2004-04-23 09:09 pm UTC (link)

I once knew someone who claimed to have perfect pitch. She said that sometimes an orchestral performance that everyone else thought was fine would be torture for her because one instrument or another was off-key. Basically, she was saying that she was more sensitive to things being off-key than other people.

But then, she was a complete and utter bitch, so she might have been lying -- but I don't think she was. She might have just fooled herself into believing it, which a lot of people do, or have been mistaken about having perfect pitch.

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	pokecheck 2004-04-24 01:59 pm UTC (link)
	And did she cook said out of tune performer and serve him/her to the Symphony Society? (Reply to this)(Parent)

onmyforehead
2004-04-23 02:54 am UTC (link)

Not a Grobanite, but...

JUST ONCE, I'd like one of this "totally out of contact with reality" critics to get up on stage in front of thousands of people and perform even one tenth as good as Josh & Company does!! They couldn't begin to do it!

Of course they couldn't. They weren't trained to sing. And if they did get up on stage and perform, would you really want to hear it?

They don't like his music because it's too high quality for them.

Or low quality. *ducksandcovers*

JOSH IS A WOUDERFUL PERFORM AND SINGING THAT GUY HAD NOT RIGHT TO SAY THOSE MEAN THINKS LIKE THAT ABOUT ARE WOUDERFUL TALETED JOSH.
JOSH HAS GOD GIVEN VOICE THAT NO ONE ON THIS EARTH CAN TAKE AWAY FROM HIM. I THINK HIS STAGE PRANCE IS WOUDERFUL.

First, spellcheck. Second, no person on earth can take his voice away, but boy, when that laryngitis hits...

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	agonistes 2004-04-23 09:18 am UTC (link)
	What did he think the grobanlights were, signals to stop singing? ...what's a grobanlight? It sounds like a sex toy. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	htrismegistus 2004-04-23 10:58 am UTC (link)
	...what's a grobanlight? It sounds like a sex toy. Or a social disease. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	erilee 2004-04-23 09:02 pm UTC (link)
	I'm killing myself over the caps and quotation marks! I'm so "JEALOUS" of these people and how well they express themselves. (Reply to this)