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Did Samsung steal this from Apple? Pop Culture inspiration

Smart watches were inspired by pop culture - part 2

Did Samsung steal this from Apple? Pop Culture inspiration

Smart watches were inspired by pop culture - part 2

Lady Gaga Goes Nude On Video!

chingalera says...

I'll take this one: Bjork is in a category of Bjork all her own-Her vocal styling was unusual, maverick for the time-She's a multi-instrumentalist ( heard Gaga play the piano and sing acapella?... not very good) T

Iceland: Not many bands form there anyhow, and she was showcased at 11 on the ONLY Icelandic radio station at the behest of her....classical piano teacher-The girl worked her ass off in several iterations, always changing and pushing the innovative envelope.

Gaga writes trite pop tunes and dances around (quite un-coordinately so) in some pretty tasteless gear while claiming some mastery of taste and style, the same based ENTIRELY in her pop persona. Can't stand her taste in fashion and her music blows sell-out-show, chunks.

At least with Bjork the journey has some changing scenery-Gaga will age like the cheap vintages of Madonna or Mariah Carey, the latter of which has more talent in her wardrobe than Gaga has in her songwriting and musical ability.

At least Carey has a range and some control, gaga sounds like she's grunting when she sings. When you want that, pull out a frikkin' Throbbing Gristle LP!

I know....can't stand modern pop culture-very played, very tired.

braschlosan said:

How about Bjork?

Did You Know That 'Jaws' Wasn't Really About a Psycho Shark?

ulysses1904 says...

The usual stale humor where somebody expounds some theory about some pop-culture crap and discusses it like it's their thesis. Tarantino started it with "Like a Virgin" and Cracked.com couldn't exist without it. Yeah we get it, you have a Masters Degree in Multimediocrity.

The Most Iconic Guitar Solos and Licks from the Past 50 Yrs

artician says...

Vai: I thought the same thing. Most people don't know him though. He's a virtuoso, but not a pop-culture icon for his music (unfortunately). A good example being that I grew up with all of this music, and while I know the name of David Gillmour, even I would have to go look him up to remind myself of his work.

Trancecoach said:

No David Gilmour? or Steve Vai?

The Most Iconic Guitar Solos and Licks from the Past 50 Yrs

chingalera says...

Some of these aren't even guitar solos as much as they are opening vamps or memorable riffs...These guys are cool and it looks like a lotta fun and all to put pop culture into the Blendtech TB-621-20....Street performing, internet resume and income-brilliant.

Blurred Lines Feminist Parody - "Defined Lines"

Yogi says...

I'm not sure what this is out to accomplish, this stupid video sucked and so did the one it was based on. I hate pop culture and everyone in it!

CDZA battles YOUTUBE. GENIUS stop INCREDIBLE stop WATCH THIS

chingalera says...

A gaggle of eidetic talent spamming the internet with resume-material chumming for a future in corporate advertising....AmericaSchlager.

Just love to see the pop culture of the last 50 years regurgitated, reconstituted, and served on white bread with iceberg lettuce oh, and plenty of American Cheese.

However, love to see folks having a good time on the main deck as the liner sinks slowly into the drink....

5 ways to know you are watching a Spielberg Movie

chingalera says...

Modern Era being say, last thirty-forty years but not the last fifty to seventy though. He's as fantastic a composer for the formulaic music he creates-I agree he ranks among the greats of cinematic composition but his claim to fame being so ingrained in pop culture with Star Wars for me means he kinna squeaked-into the realm of 20th century American composers like Copeland. Bernstein, or Gershwin. I dunno, he's more like a Howard Shore or Hans Zimmer for me, not quite reaching the all-star team of 20th century long-haired first-stringers.

Maybe I'm simply prejudiced against the all-consuming cheese-fog of Star Wars, Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, etc. Maybe I'll try the experiment of listening to one of his compositions without the backdrop of a film. No wait, see I did that-In 77' I bought the double LP of the Star Wars soundtrack (yahhh, I was frikkin' 12) and got bored with it-Never get bored listening to Grofé's Grand Canyon Suite or Ravel's Bolero, though!

ChaosEngine said:

John Williams is a fantastic composer.

Some people might call this heresy, but personally I think he should be ranked up there with Beethoven and Tchaikovsky for grandiose orchestral music.

He's certainly the greatest composer of the modern era.

Top 10 Memorable Movie Heists

Mumford & Sons - Hopeless Wanderer

Taint says...

You sound like an angry old man.

Mumford and Sons have some great songs and this is a lighthearted, funny video.

You seem to take your dislike of them and expand it into a condemnation of an unrelated list of things you also dislike.

Also people who are "offended" by pop culture and music trends should shampoo my crotch

Procrastinatron said:

I hadn't even noticed that the loathing of this band had become so ubiquitous as to become cliché.

I'm pretty happy about it, though.

Really, I'm just so tired of all these retro-fetishist, nature-romanticist hipsters with their beards and their work boots and their flannel shirts, treating masculinity as an accessory because they honestly just don't know any better. They're all just perpetual adolescents who for the life of them cannot seem to figure out what it means to become an adult. So they try to find shortcuts.

Dylan was pretentious, but he was also a genius lyricist. Seriously, no bandwagon here, and I don't know if I'd call him the greatest songwriter of all time, but... he was good. Dylan was also highly political, and could be fairly incisive, while these confused little boys, all these hipster douchebags who seem to think that honesty can be bought at a thrift store, only ever sing about flowers and trees and broken hearts.

And they're all the same. Always. As a group, they are so homogenous that it becomes offensive to me.

Japan You So Crazy!

oblio70 says...

Wow, the cultural aire of superiority they exude...REGARD! The eyeball skirt she wears, is a pop transliteration of pop-cultural critique/artist Takashi Murakami, whom thought contemporary Japanese art to be “a deep appropriation of Western trends.” He sought to bring ridicule of this tendancy to embrace the non-Japanese through both classical and pop cultural grammar. Much of that same disdain for the foreign is displayed here, so our "WTF"- response is deeply appreciated. Hurray! We don't Get it!!!

Russell Brand on MSNBC Mocking Media

chingalera says...

I feel you with your enthusiasm for the language and it's not his pace or obscure references or a refined use of language that's bothersome-It's an air of entitlement and his enormous ego I can't stomach, the chap has his moments-

I recoil from his popularity fueled by the media machine-Gauging pop culture based on her icons I'd have to imagine comedy isn't dead, it's merely retarded.

CreamK said:

Maybe it's too fast and complex for you.. Yeah, he uses posh words and rare terms but that's just one part of the act. It's a really nice twist on the other wise dumped down comedy. You compare a british and murikan cursing and the vocabulary is highly in the favor of the old UK punk...

Another good brit comedian is Tim Minchin, he has great vocabulary and some form of grace in his way of relaying information to another humanbeing. Both fellows makes people think and i like that.

As non-native english speaker, i enjoy good set of new words... Sometimes i wonder why 99,999% of the stuff i see on tv uses a lot of same words over and over to explain something that could be described with one word more accurately.



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