Reminds me of Steven Page (Barenaked Ladies)

I realize one can't read the tone of my post, but I was being facetious about hating him. I hate him as much as I hate the Nissan Cube - I would never pay for one, I don't understand why anyone likes them and I think the person who designed it should be smacked upside the head but I wouldn't have them all dumped into the middle of the ocean.

That said, worked hard and earned his fame?

He is a mass marketed tool of the recording industry. He won a genetic lottery that makes him physically appealing to preteen girls and has a decent voice. He had the luck to be accidentally seen on YouTube by a marketing executive who arranged for him to sing with Usher one week later. He is a naive teenager being blindly led down a path of fame and riches by people who know how to sell things much more than they know music.

He doesn't deserve to be in the same sentence as The Barenaked Ladies, who seriously worked hard as independent musicians, or Jim Carey, who was/is a comic genius. They are great Canadian entertainers, Justin Bieber is not.>> ^doogle:

>> ^Skeeve:
"I don't know if you seen it but..."
There are so many reasons to hate Justin Bieber - I'm choosing to hate him for his bad grammar and for giving a bad name to us Canadians.

Canadians' extreme modesty pushes us to dislike success and fame of Canadians on top. So they go elsewhere for their fame & success, while Canada pushes them out. Barenaked Ladies, Alanis Morrissette, Jim Carrey, etc.
I'm not at all into Bieber's music, but the kid's got a good head on his shoulders and he's worked hard and earned his fame.
You don't have to like him. But you don't have to hate him either. Or listen to his music. Or watch a video aptly titled "Justin Bieber Walks Into Glass Door"

>> ^Skeeve:

"I don't know if you seen it but..."
There are so many reasons to hate Justin Bieber - I'm choosing to hate him for his bad grammar and for giving a bad name to us Canadians.


Canadians' extreme modesty pushes us to dislike success and fame of Canadians on top. So they go elsewhere for their fame & success, while Canada pushes them out. Barenaked Ladies, Alanis Morrissette, Jim Carrey, etc.

I'm not at all into Bieber's music, but the kid's got a good head on his shoulders and he's worked hard and earned his fame.

You don't have to like him. But you don't have to hate him either. Or listen to his music. Or watch a video aptly titled "Justin Bieber Walks Into Glass Door"

Good point.

In reply to this comment by rubadub:
Its not only 'white trash losers' who have plans for when they get rich.

Its not only 'white trash losers' who have plans for when they get rich.

Thanks for that, I can't believe I forgot that tag. DX

In reply to this comment by calvados:
*canada

the fast food + music theme makes me flashback to 1992 when the barenaked laides performed mcdonalds girl on the radio. the only recording i can find now is:
http://www.deanfriedman.com/realaudio/McDonaldsGirlbnl.ram
(somewhere in box of several hundred floppy disks in my basement is a .wav of this)

I think it is interesting that if I ask siftbot to find me all the videos containing the string "barenaked ladies", he does not find this video.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'bnl, barenaked, ladies, pinch, me' to 'bnl, barenaked ladies, pinch me, maroon' - edited by kronosposeidon

To add, probably the best theme music for a TV show right now!

Rock on Barenaked Ladies!

Groove Armada - I See You Baby
Peter Gabriel - Don't Give Up
Blues Traveler - The Mountains Win Again
Mad Season - River of Deceit
Barenaked Ladies - Call & Answer

R.E.M. - Imitation of Life
Elliot Smith - The Morning After
Frederic Chopin - Nocturne, E flat Major
Ben Lee - Cigarettes Will Kill You
Deftones - Change

"Barenaked Ladies did the same "internet phenomenon/youtube celeb"-style video for yet another craptacular song off some album nobody bought."

Geeze, bitter much?

I know this is already discarded, but man, you really have an issue with both these bands don't you?

This album got to #17 on the US charts and #7 on the Canadian ones... not an album no-one bought by any stretch of the imagination. geeze

I wouldn't call this a rip off of the barenaked ladies. Lots of people have independently come up with the idea of internet meme medley type things (include south park). And regardless, this one is much better produced. The barenaked lady one focuses on video bloggers who frankly I've never heard of.

Apart from the Barenaked Ladies video
http://www.videosift.com/video/Weezer-Are-Thieves-Sound-of-Your-Voice-by-Barenaked-Ladies
check this one
http://www.videosift.com/video/Internet-meme-song
and the memes used:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Internet-meme-song#comment-207856
to satisfy you meme addiction..

http://www.videosift.com/video/Weezer-Are-Thieves-Sound-of-Your-Voice-by-Barenaked-Ladies has some additional background on the featured lip-synchers.

*parody *Canada, *viral *rocknroll & *meme