"Kendrick Lamar is an amazing rapper, lyricist and artist..." That 's about the only thing I picked up while listening over his dialog to the performers music.

For the unaware, the lyricist and vocalist is Steve Lee, brother of Bobby Lee, comedian (formerly of Mad TV). The group is called Mangchi, which means Hammer in Korean.

The music is by Money Mark of Beastie Boys (among many others) fame.

David Choe, hundred-millionaire artist, forged this group in the fires of Mordor upon learning of Steve's talent for writing and rapping.

Steve believes there are lizard people in some other astral plane or whatever. And that's what this song is about.

Check out the album because there are actually several awesome songs that I really like and all in very different formats: http:///mangchi.com

See also: http://dvdasa.com

I used to more of a fan of Garfunkel and Oates when I learned of them several years ago. But now Im over them....meh. All their songs sound alike. Why do you need both of you if youre just gonna sing in unison the entire time? Just find them to be too repetitive and lack creativity. They are smart lyricists...it just gets old to me.

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.

Was thoroughly entertained by that.

These guys are some very talented lyricists. Also great performances, especially by Barack.

Iunno, she could have.. practiced singing, maybe.

Makes it kinda difficult to fully appreciate her humor and creativity.

Like listening to expert guitarist play a famous solo with two strings out of tune.



>> ^messenger:

Should she have hired a professional singer and actor to sing her lyrics? She's a smart lyricist and nailed the facial expressions. I enjoyed it.>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:
i wonder, is the tone deaf singing/talking part of the gimmick?

Guys.... While I'll admit that this is gonna be a short-lived meme, I must also admit that I find it entertaining at this moment in time & let's see what she comes up with next.

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Thanks to @syncron for posting

>> ^messenger:

Should she have hired a professional singer and actor to sing her lyrics? She's a smart lyricist and nailed the facial expressions. I enjoyed it.>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:
i wonder, is the tone deaf singing/talking part of the gimmick?

Should she have hired a professional singer and actor to sing her lyrics? She's a smart lyricist and nailed the facial expressions. I enjoyed it.>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

i wonder, is the tone deaf singing/talking part of the gimmick?

Upvote for Mr. A-Z.

Saw him a few years ago in a small venue in the UK. It was the first solo tour he did here, before he made it big and it was awesome. He was fantastic on stage and so obviously glad for every person who came to see him.

Saw him again a year later and he was equally brilliant on stage, but he'd just lost a little of the sincerity from the first time. He's still brilliant and I would still pay good money to see such a good live performer, I'm just really glad I saw him before he made it. He's gained a bit of cocky sure-ness and is a different performer now, not worse or better, just different.

Great lyricist, singer and stage-man. See him if you can!

Upvote for Scrubius. Great lyricist and well worth a look.

I was waiting for someone to point that out. The black guy was clearly spewing anti-Semetic racist bullshit. Reverse the roles, and the white guy probably would have incited a riot and ended up in the hospital. That also lends credence to his skills as a lyricist. He didn't have to stoop to that kind of level to beat them.

The song's lyrics (and title) are both a tribute to Ayn Rand's novella Anthem, who deeply influenced Neil Peart - Rush's lyricist - at the time:

Know your place in life is where you want to be
Don't let them tell you that you owe it all to me
Keep on looking forward, no use in looking 'round
Hold your head above the ground and they won't bring you down

Chorus:
Anthem of the heart and anthem of the mind
A funeral dirge for eyes gone blind
We marvel after those who sought
New wonders in the world, wonders in the world,
Wonders in the world they wrought

Live for yourself -- there's no one else
More worth living for
Begging hands and bleeding hearts will
Only cry out for more

[Chorus]

Well, i know they've always told you
Selfishness was wrong
Yet it was for me, not you, i
Came to write this song

[Chorus]

From a Q&A with fan questions in 1993:

Q. It's fairly well known that you've been influenced to a great extent by the writings of Ayn Rand. Knowing that her philosophy places a great deal of emphasis on individualism and creative integrity, particularly in the realm of art, how do you reconcile this with the fact that the music of Rush is written collectively? What happens if one of you has your heart set on a particular part, but the other two are dead-set against it?

Eric Simpson
Miami Springs, FL

A. Well, I saved this one until last, and you can see why! Eric and other people often send long lists of questions, and I hope they understand that I just can't justify spending half a page on a complex answer for each arcane question (for myself or for the general reader) so I have to be selective. Since I'm giving my time to this as a service to others, I go about it in my own way -- like the selfish bum I am.

Sometimes I choose questions which a few people have asked about, but which are unlikely to appear in an interview; sometimes I choose questions I think are interesting; sometimes I head off a growing myth and debunk it for you; other times I just say "what the heck" and answer any old one. So okay...

For a start. the extent of my influence by the writings of Ayn Rand should not be overestimated -- I am no one's disciple. Yes, I believe the individual is paramount in matters of justice and liberty, but in philosophy, as Aristotle said long ago, the paramount good is happiness. My self-determination as an individual is part of the pursuit of happiness, of course, but there's more to it than that.

In this particular example, working together with Alex and Geddy is a more important part of my pursuit of happiness than is my attachment to any line of lyric or phrase of music. Thus the conflict you describe would not arise -- if we disagree on such a detail, we work on it until it satisfies everybody, and if (very) occasionally one of us has to sacrifice a petty preference, they hey -- it's no big deal. Especially when you compare such an issue against the satisfaction we get from the big picture, the sum of our work together, it would be foolish to sacrifice long-term happiness for a small difference in taste.

I've said before that in regard to my own work, the lyrics, I am more often excited by the input from the other two than I am disappointed by it, and I certainly never feel compromised by it.

And there you can see how complicated it is to identify and pursue happiness, and how complicated it can be just to answer one question (out of twenty submitted by the curious Mr. Simpson, though others often rival him.)

You see what I'm up against...

Bye for now,

N. Peart

November 4, '93, Toronto

Shad is a *quality lyricist.

Finally justice for the blues:) with an own channel/invocation!
I'll reassign or add (in case of jazz-blues/blues-jazz) for me posts..
And the Love channel loves blues (and so do blues lyricists:))

I used to be the biggest fan of Death Cab, because the music to me felt like it came from such a genuine emotional place. Then I came across an interview with the lead singer/lyricist wherein he revealed that almost all the experiences he describes are completely made up, and he actually hasn't even really ever had his heart broken. I found it somewhat disturbing as I had been questioning my own ability to gauge people's sincerity at the time. So now I don't like them as much because they remind me of a time I now look back on as my "sad, delusional fuckwit" stage.