*related http://videosift.com/video/Dixieland-Jazz-Serenade-of-Les-Vaches-Francaises

Fuuuuuu- that sucks.
Good thing the jazz is so upbeat.

No, it's just a very poorly implemented idea in today's culture. Cultural appropriation is real, but it's not just a question of copying someone else's style. There's obviously a problem when, for example, enormously talented black musicians develop new music styles and cultural expressions which are dismissed and marginalized until a white person takes after their styles and makes it acceptable to like them. If white people are given all the credit for jazz or soul or rock or blues or rap, it diminishes the rightful cultural accomplishments of some amazing musical pioneers. That's cultural appropriation because the powerful are unfairly appropriating all the benefits of the less powerful, original creators. If some 15-year old white girl wants to call herself a ratched ho and wear dreads, on the other hand, that's not appropriation, it's admiration. The problem arises when well-intentioned people forget to consider the power dynamic, and instead just translate 'cultural appropriation' into a series of racially permitted dress codes. Which is what the bully in the video was doing.

Jesus fucking christ, how did this abortion ever get green lit?

Way to completely and utterly miss the point of a franchise.

What's next? The next Raid to be a slow-paced, dialogue heavy introspection into the nuances of Indonesian geopolitics?
Does the drummer in Whiplash 2 join a metal band?

Every single thing about this is just stupid, from the soundtrack* to the lame attempt to give Chris Pine Kirks haircut. Fuck, I haven't even mentioned anything about the direction or the story yet.

@CrushBug, don't take this personally, but if there was a way to unpromote or anti-quality I would use every single point I earned on this abomination.

Look, if you want to make an awesome action movie in space with a kick arse soundtrack, great! Sign me the fuck up for that one. In fact, I watched it last year, it was called Guardians of the Galaxy and I loved it.

But that's not what Star Trek is about. Why would you even bother spending money on the licence? It's not that you can't even make a great Trek movie with decent action beats (First Contact nailed both), but Star Trek is supposed to be a tiny bit more thoughtful.

Fuck everything about this.


* I love the Beastie Boys and Sabotage is a great song, but it fits Star Trek about as well as smooth jazz would fit the next Avengers.

Your video, H. Jon Benjamin - a non-musician writes a jazz piano album, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Adding video to channels (Jazz) - requested by oritteropo.

*jazz

I don't get jazz, yet wonder if that's the point.

For the Ruby! *promote, *triplepromote, *doublequality, *kitchensink and all that jazz!

Radioactive - PMJ Jazz/Beatbox/Fallout Imagine Dragons Cover has been added as a related post - related requested by Zawash on that post.

Ornthoron ... I'm here to jazz up your day with a smooth birthday wish. Hope your celebration is out of this world

I am no armature after 7 years here.
1 down vote SUPPRESSED my video so it was NO LONGER VISIBLE ON ANY CHANNEL.
I do not attribute this to the Sift but a failure of it's mechanism.
A young (less than 1 hour) video, down voted, will not appear for viewers to see and vote on.
I fucking searched. That is fucked up. FUCK DOWN VOTING.

The fact your all so jazzed to justify a DOWN VOTE is sickening.
enjoy your future hate-fest called the sift

You are completely entitled to your opinion on this track.. not that fond of it myself, tbh.... but pretty much everything else you've said is simply untrue.

First up, digital instruments are still instruments. Some of them require great skill to play in real time (see Beardyman for example).

Some are authoring tools that aren't used for performance. So what? In the past, we called those kinds of tools sheet music, where a composer could write some music and have others perform it.

Second, it's not a zero-sum game. Just because some people use a sampler doesn't take away from people playing guitar.

Finally, there are literally millions of musicians still playing instruments (by which I'm assuming you mean traditional instruments like strings, percussion, wind, etc). With the web as a distribution and learning tool, it has never been easier to learn, write and record music. So if you want to listen to rock or classical or blues or jazz or soul or funk or metal or folk or any combination thereof, it's out there. Go look for it.

I used to watch I <3 Lucy too. Havce you seen the colored remastered version yet? CBS aired it a couple years ago. It was nice!
I like this version even though I am not a jazz fan.