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Nakannimi (nakannimi) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2004-05-27 01:40:00


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The Darkness vs. Avril Lavigne
Ever since Avril Lavigne announced that she wanted to work with The Darkness, Darklings everywhere have been weeping.

But things got a little wanky here


In the article comments, The Sasquatch begins ranting on The Darkness:
Justin Hawkins is a shrill b*tch, and their music is as manufactured and planned out as any other pop icon. The fact that they have only three minute songs which rely on instant catchiness rather than long term enjoyment shows that they aren't any good. They aren't an entirely talented band, and why should anyone care about their image of rockstars, first and foremost it's the musicianship that counts, and the Darkness is really lacking there. They are a mediocre band at best, and their popularity is completely reliant on a ridiculous image that went out of fashion many years ago for a reason. It just plain sucked


Linda Berry shows up to defend Avril:
Avril is 5 times better than the Drkness although the Darkness has a couple catchy songs Avril has lots and she writes them all! Shhes olny 19! She is amazing and s going to be bigger than life on day while The Darkness tries to get its rip off 70 songs played on the air 5 times.

And is mocked:
Even if she did write her own song. Adding a line of lyric is what constitutes songwriting here. But even if this mental giant did write her own music, do we praise such brilliance as Sk8tr boi as a landmark achievement in songwriting? Where have our standards gone if we do so. Debbie Gibson wrote her own music too and where is she now?

The Sasquatch rants some more, and Sasquatch Squasher comes in to . . . squash him:
With the crap teen pop out there and the even worse Fred Durst poser, crap bag, rap-rock loser bands out there, The Darkness is here to save the day. If you don't like them, take your medication, play your musician records (such as Chick Corea? Kenny G? Celine Dion? They seem to be technically right up your alley) and shut the Christ up. I never write to these types of posts ever but your borderline retarded attack on all things "big guitar" made me sprint to the bathroom to unload with visions of your verbage getting flushed down the crapper. Take pills, drink heavily, put on Permission To Land, and shove your speakers up your ass.

A few others defend The Darkness, but Sasquatch is not convinced:
You're all tards, F*ck you and your ignorant bullsh*t. The Darkness is no better than any other image related fad in music ala Poison or Vanilla Ice. You're a d*ck and I hope you die.

Sasquatch Sqasher has the ultimate comeback: Sasquatch is gay:
Dear sweet retarded Sasquatch.......PILLS. Lot's of 'em. In fact, it doesn't matter which type. Lithium or Flinstone chewables. Hammer a crapload (preferably the Wilma's)and enjoy the sweet sweet buzz that you so desperately need in your delusional, borderline homosexual anger mode. Go Village People and Sasquatch!!

Chuck DiMaria tries to bring in some rational discussion:
Ok, let's talk about Britney for a while. How long do you think before she does a spread in Playboy? Class? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? ...Sasquatch?

But nobody listens. Sasquatch:
Note to Sasquatch Squasher: You're a loser, and a waste of space. Please die! Celine Dion? F*ck you're stupid.

Sasquatch Squasher:
Your confusion comes from the fact that you menatally sound like a product of the tragic 90's who look up to the clowns of the day. Insert Fred Durst and Hoobastank here. Sasquatch, after your morning dose of pills, rent the movie ALMOST FAMOUS. Listen , look, and learn where it all came from. Only then will you be able to let your Britney, Christina Aquilara, and Mandy Moore CD's get tossed in the garbage. Let it go, big guy. Let it go. Breath.

The bigtoe comes to Sasquatch's aid:
Squasher you are c*ck Suckker and cannot see past what your friends think are cool....Sasquatch i totally agree with u

Sasquatch Squasher mocks his spelling, and bigtoe replies:
Squasher Im sorry that i cam on as an illiterate 7 yr old.

It's pretty amusing. The greatness that is Debbie Gibson is discussed, people are called gay and retarded, and Sasquatch makes it onto Sasquatch Squasher's Christmas list.


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[info]restlesshands
2004-05-27 08:47 am UTC (link)
Oh, the emo woe that these people have to live with. It's tragic, I swear.

And I thought Avril was already working for The Darkness.

...Oh, wait, The Darkness is a band? Silly me, I thought they meant the forces of evil.

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[info]silver_keys
2004-05-27 04:22 pm UTC (link)
...Oh, wait, The Darkness is a band? Silly me, I thought they meant the forces of evil.


*chokes on water*
Forces of evil, personalized by a bunch of boys with high-pitched voices and unwashed hair! This is the terror that normal everyday people run from!

...heeheehee.

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(no subject) - [info]restlesshands, 2004-05-27 04:38 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]tigerlily, 2004-05-27 07:38 pm UTC
Re: - [info]silver_keys, 2004-05-28 04:38 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]baskinglizard, 2004-05-30 11:09 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]shinigami_co, 2004-05-28 07:58 pm UTC

coreopsis
2004-05-27 04:29 pm UTC (link)
I think they're both.

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[info]killerspork33
2004-05-27 09:23 am UTC (link)
I hate Avril, she's not punk and her songs aren't all that.

But still, these people make my head hurt

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[info]prettyveela
2004-05-27 09:47 am UTC (link)
I hate Avril, she's not punk and her songs aren't all that.

On top of that, she wants to kick Hillary Duff's ass, boo to that!

The Darkness icon!

*fangirls*

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(no subject) - [info]killerspork33, 2004-05-27 09:51 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-05-27 10:29 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]doctorcal, 2004-05-27 12:25 pm UTC
haha - [info]prettyveela, 2004-05-28 04:57 am UTC

[info]wankprophet
2004-05-27 06:07 pm UTC (link)
Er...you hate Avril cause she's not punk? Huh. I think I'll hate her cause she's not jazz, then. And hate John Coltrane cause he's not classic rock. And hate the Who cause they're not classical. And hate that Beethoven cause he's not a chanting monk. And hate the Benedictines cause, dammit, they're not punk. And hate the Sex Pistols cause, well, I just want to, and they'll never hold a candle to the Ramones...who I hate because they aren't bluegrass. And since I don't know any bluegrass bands, I guess I can't hate them.

After all is said and done, I think I may have to take up Irish drinking songs. A rousing drunken choruse of "Cockles and Mussels," anyone?

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(no subject) - [info]ladysorka, 2004-05-27 06:27 pm UTC
Bluegrass hate - nakannimi, 2004-05-27 06:30 pm UTC
Re: Bluegrass hate - [info]amakath, 2004-05-28 09:20 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]xeno4eyes, 2004-05-27 07:14 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]elijahdprophet, 2004-05-27 10:01 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-05-28 03:52 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]necronomist, 2004-05-28 05:05 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]ashenmote, 2004-05-27 07:35 pm UTC
My favorite Irish Drinking Song! - [info]restlesshands, 2004-05-27 07:40 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-05-27 10:41 pm UTC
I now have Cockles and Mussels stuck in my head, thaanks - [info]sanguinary, 2004-05-30 10:02 am UTC

[info]criticalcricket
2004-05-27 09:32 am UTC (link)
There is nothing wrong with a little cheesy glam rock or bubble gum punk/pop (although the latter has a tendency to make my brain explode). Everybody has a few musical selections they're not exactly proud of, but they're catchy. Let's face it, not everybody is Mozart or Bach and most musicians are certainly not churning out the concertos. Music is supposed to be fun. Chill out!

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[info]bloodysakura
2004-05-27 09:37 am UTC (link)
The Darkness makes me fear. Your icon makes me fear. *dies*

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nakannimi
2004-05-27 02:17 pm UTC (link)
Don't die! Just so you're not too scared, the picture in the icon is of Justin opening a bottle of champagne, suggestively. I thought it was almost a ready-made fandom wank icon.

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meshou
2004-05-27 10:22 am UTC (link)
I think Avril is a damned fine country singer, but I doubt they'd collaborate.

If they did, I think the members of the Darkness'd eat her alive, in a non-fun, cannibalistic way. They strike me as genuine, "hide your wives and daughters," talent. I think they'd pride themselves on being the sort of men only the very stupidest of little girls hung around with.

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(Anonymous)
2004-05-27 11:41 am UTC (link)
::Snickers at the thought of Avril in cowboy getup belting out covers of LeAnn Rimes tunes::

Actually, I have two Avril songs I like to listen to. Complicated and I'm with you. The video for the latter is very poignant and I'm a closet softie.

Not that anyone cares. What's this Darkness song that seems to be on everyone's love list?

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-05-27 01:27 pm UTC
here i come with useless information - [info]ichigatsu, 2004-05-27 03:49 pm UTC
Re: here i come with useless information - [info]lillyv, 2004-05-27 05:57 pm UTC
Re: here i come with useless information - [info]ichigatsu, 2004-05-27 07:08 pm UTC
Re: here i come with useless information - [info]plazmah, 2004-05-28 12:53 am UTC
Re: here i come with useless information - coreopsis, 2004-05-27 10:56 pm UTC
Re: here i come with useless information - [info]gjeanz, 2004-05-28 03:27 am UTC
Re: here i come with useless information - [info]crickets, 2004-05-28 03:40 am UTC
(no subject) - meshou, 2004-05-27 08:56 pm UTC
Playing Solomon
[info]mouseybrown
2004-05-27 06:01 pm UTC (link)
I will split the baby in two.

Avril Lavigne and The Darkness are *both* shit.

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[info]lillyv
2004-05-27 06:01 pm UTC (link)
Flinstone's Chewable Vitamins: The cure for all things wanky.

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[info]elijahdprophet
2004-05-27 07:39 pm UTC (link)
The Darkness are wise and true

that has got to be the stupidest thing i have ever heard someone say about a band. Thats worse than when people thought that The Beastie Boys could free Tibet with a concert...

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[info]photosinensis
2004-05-27 08:47 pm UTC (link)
Hmm...bad music and bad music won't necessarily make the glory of glam. I mean, you've got to have the excess, dude. And the latent homosexuality. Glam isn't glam without TEH GAY. At least, it's not good glam. Then, it's just excessive rock...which is still occasionally good.

And sorry to sound like a music plebe here, but who is Debbie Gibson?

Avril makes me weep for real music.

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[info]yankthewank
2004-05-27 09:03 pm UTC (link)
Debbie Gibson was a really popular singer/songwriter in the mid-to-late 80s. Her music was total fluff but she had musical cred because she could play a bunch of instruments and wrote her own lyrics and music. Her voice was nice too but as I am more a rock girl I was never really fan.

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[info]wankprophet
2004-05-27 09:07 pm UTC (link)
Not even gonna touch the glam rock stuff, but I'll say that you don't sound like a music plebe, you just sound young. Debbie Gibson was a poppish teen idol sort around the same time as New Kids on the Block (which more members of the Hive Vagina listened to than would ever admit it, uh-huh.) Fairly annoying, but well-known for her "All-American Girl-Next-Door" image. She had like one really successful single and a really successful album -- "Electric Youth," Google says -- and faded into relative obscurity.

Give me Coltrane and Floyd anyday.

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[info]typecast
2004-05-27 09:44 pm UTC (link)
Gibson was a pop star when she was 15 or 16 years old. They would market anything with her name on it, even an "Electric Youth" perfume. (It was horrid, but her only competition for female teen idol was one-hit-wonder Tiffany, a girl with much less basic talent or beauty to sell.)

As an adult, Gibson choose to persue a career in musical theater and was quite successful at it (much as, after Doogie Howser, Neil Patrick Harris reinvented himself as a successful stage actor). Gibson played Belle in Beauty and the Beast on Broadway for a large portion of the run, for example.

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(no subject) - [info]elijahdprophet, 2004-05-27 09:57 pm UTC
Re: - [info]typecast, 2004-05-28 02:04 am UTC

[info]blue_linnet
2004-05-27 10:06 pm UTC (link)
I enjoy declaring my love for Avril. I don't particularly love or hate her; I think she's a decent pop artist. But I've been hearing the wailing about 'omg she's NOT PUNK!' for two years now. It's gotten really old. Yes, okay. She's not punk. I don't think that all that many people honestly believe she is, and if they do, they're probably under fifteen. I just don't understand the frothing frenzy that people work themselves into over her--I mean jeez, you'd think she personally killed their babies.

Hating Avril is, like, *so* 2003. /snerk.

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(no subject) - [info]ashenmote, 2004-05-28 12:43 am UTC
D vs. A
(Anonymous)
2004-05-27 11:45 pm UTC (link)
Whatever. I can't listen to someone who says stuff like, "Why would I listen to the Sex Pistols? They're old!" and "Feminism? What's that?" AND says it in all seriousness.

No fucking way. I'm sorry but that has to take the cake for the stupidest things I've ever heard today. The worst case I can present is freshmen year when Clinton was still president, this girl in my class said, "WHAT?!?! I thought JAMES MADISON was president" in complete seriousness. She had no friggin idea about anything (still doesn't).

As for D vs. A, I requested "I believe..." to be played at prom and rocked out with my friends to it. The song cleared the dance floor, but it was great having it to ourselves and jumping around in over-priced gowns.

I dled Avril's album before I knew she was "punk" and the whole time I was listening to it, I kept thinking it was some country singer besides "Skater Boi" and maybe one other song. She sings country whether she or her 15 billion fangirls care to admit it. Actually, I got into a bit of a disagreement with an avid Avril fangirl, when I informed her of this and used my 12 years of being a country fan to back myself up. She flipped out and started screaming at me during class, but then again, this is someone who has never heard of the Beatles or Cher.

LG

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[info]redjackcash
2004-05-28 01:58 am UTC (link)
Meh.

Wank wankity wank wank wank.

I tend to lean towards The Darkness more than Avril, but that's only because anyone with a song called "sk8ter boi" is obviously marketing to 14-year olds, of which I am not. Also, ties with no collars? Bah, the girl is parading around looking like an absolute retard. I love ties, but that no collars look is just hideous.

Of course, there's always a chance there might be more to what people are seeing. For example...MMM-Bop. Does anyone remember the lyrics? Hell naw, what got marketed was the catchy pop beat. Which is why they were able to get away with a song about how most people in life leave you. Excerpts:

"You have so many relationships in this life/Only one or two will last"

"When you get old and start losing your hair/Can you tell me who will still care?"

"In an mmmbop they're gone. In an mmmbop they're not there"

I mean, most of us just remember that happy beat, right?

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[info]leahthegreat
2004-05-28 02:28 am UTC (link)
I'm not a Darkness fan, really. Nothing against them, just don't listen. Same with Avril. She can do whatever the hell she wants, but it only ticked me off when there was a period of time where whenever I turned on the radio either Complicated or Sk8ter Boi (however you spell it) was playing.

And if they want to do a duet, whatever. Would make an interesting duet.

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[info]gjeanz
2004-05-28 03:31 am UTC (link)
*wankwankwank* Avril's songs are incredibly HORRIBLY written(And faux-angsty), she does NOT play her guitar as some people say(She doesn't even do it live), and she cannot sing. Her credibility on ANYTHING, even common knowledge, is nil. End of story. *splooge*

The Darkness however, I like. Their songs are about as deep as a mudpuddle but that's exactly what their music is supposed to be. It isn't supposed to be angst-ridden musings on life; when I want that, I listen to David Bowie's album "Scary Monsters & Super Creeps" or some Nightwish.
*double splooge*

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(no subject) - [info]birdyexmachina, 2004-05-28 11:35 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]gjeanz, 2004-05-28 12:01 pm UTC

[info]gjeanz
2004-05-28 03:32 am UTC (link)
Oh yes, and I forgot to mention...am I terribly horribly wrong if your icon is turning me on?

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(no subject) - nakannimi, 2004-05-28 05:41 am UTC

(Anonymous)
2004-05-28 06:59 am UTC (link)
But... The Darkness is *actually* planning a collaboration with the Black Eyed Peas, and then Avril and BEP would only be two degrees of separation apart. And then my head would have to explode.

--B

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(no subject) - nakannimi, 2004-05-29 10:03 pm UTC

 
   
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