TINTED WINDOWS
May. 20th, 2009 10:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flailbuttWAS ON IDOBI RADIO AAHHH
A song was playing that I've never heard before but the voice was familiar and I checked the title/band and OMGGG IT'S TINTED WINDOWS!
To the uninitiated (and cooler than me i.e. too cool not to be stupidly excited about this) this is Taylor Hanson's side project/collaboration with 3 members from 3 other bands (Fountains of Wayne, Smashing Pumpkins, FCKIN CHEAP TRICK). I've known about this but I haven't heard any of their music til now and NNGGGG IT'S SO GOOOOOOD I am totally going to buy the album when it comes out.
And then I check the band website and find out THEY WERE ON JIMMY FALLON 3 WEEKS AGO FFFFFFFFUCK MY LIFE
And now, as my defensive indignation reared its ugly head (when I told Cindy about this and she said "lolol Hanson", but only as a mild tease) I recall a week ago when at game night at Lisa's and she invited New Guy to join the usual gang, and he was alright for the most part, until when playing Apples to Apples he misheard a prompt as "Hanson", and after correction he said something like, "oh okay, cuz I was thinking, what's synonymous to (somethingsomething maybe a slightly negative adjective) '90's boyband'?". My reflexive reaction was of course "WHAT, HANSON'S NOT A BOYBAND" (the caps lock was only in my head, I didn't actually shout at him, thank god). To which he replied "they were boys, and they were in a band."
And then I was quietly furious with him the rest of the night.
Because CLEARLY, judging by the kind of person he is (and I am going into my Caste-System Bitch Mode here) i.e. Nerdy Geektastic he probably has a negligible scope of knowledge on the great wide boundless world of music (I mean the entire spectrum), he probably has an inherent/socially-conditioned dislike for popular/mainstream music, which means he is at least a little musically ignorant (hey, I'm musically ignorant. At least I know it and admit it and don't go around unknowingly dissing other people's taste in music), biased, and is unaware of the conventional meaning/connotation of "boyband" which is:
"Although there are no distinct traits defining a boy band, one could label a band a 'boy band' for following mainstream music trends, changing their appearances to adapt to new fashion trends, having elaborate dance moves, and performing elaborate shows." - Wikipedia
So that would be to call the Jonas Brothers, The Moffatts, oh and every other instrument-playing teenage all-boys pop/punk/emo/alternative/rock band in high school a boyband.
I imagine all of them would say the same thing: FUCK YOU BUDDY.
(This tl;dr is really just a reactionary lashing-out due to the accumulated irritation from the shit I get from being stigmatized for liking Hanson. GUESS WHAT ASSHOLES, THEY'VE GROWN UP, THEIR MUSIC'S GROWN UP, they've stopped living in the 90s and SO SHOULD YOU.)
A song was playing that I've never heard before but the voice was familiar and I checked the title/band and OMGGG IT'S TINTED WINDOWS!
To the uninitiated (and cooler than me i.e. too cool not to be stupidly excited about this) this is Taylor Hanson's side project/collaboration with 3 members from 3 other bands (Fountains of Wayne, Smashing Pumpkins, FCKIN CHEAP TRICK). I've known about this but I haven't heard any of their music til now and NNGGGG IT'S SO GOOOOOOD I am totally going to buy the album when it comes out.
And then I check the band website and find out THEY WERE ON JIMMY FALLON 3 WEEKS AGO FFFFFFFFUCK MY LIFE
And now, as my defensive indignation reared its ugly head (when I told Cindy about this and she said "lolol Hanson", but only as a mild tease) I recall a week ago when at game night at Lisa's and she invited New Guy to join the usual gang, and he was alright for the most part, until when playing Apples to Apples he misheard a prompt as "Hanson", and after correction he said something like, "oh okay, cuz I was thinking, what's synonymous to (somethingsomething maybe a slightly negative adjective) '90's boyband'?". My reflexive reaction was of course "WHAT, HANSON'S NOT A BOYBAND" (the caps lock was only in my head, I didn't actually shout at him, thank god). To which he replied "they were boys, and they were in a band."
And then I was quietly furious with him the rest of the night.
Because CLEARLY, judging by the kind of person he is (and I am going into my Caste-System Bitch Mode here) i.e. Nerdy Geektastic he probably has a negligible scope of knowledge on the great wide boundless world of music (I mean the entire spectrum), he probably has an inherent/socially-conditioned dislike for popular/mainstream music, which means he is at least a little musically ignorant (hey, I'm musically ignorant. At least I know it and admit it and don't go around unknowingly dissing other people's taste in music), biased, and is unaware of the conventional meaning/connotation of "boyband" which is:
"Although there are no distinct traits defining a boy band, one could label a band a 'boy band' for following mainstream music trends, changing their appearances to adapt to new fashion trends, having elaborate dance moves, and performing elaborate shows." - Wikipedia
So that would be to call the Jonas Brothers, The Moffatts, oh and every other instrument-playing teenage all-boys pop/punk/emo/alternative/rock band in high school a boyband.
I imagine all of them would say the same thing: FUCK YOU BUDDY.
(This tl;dr is really just a reactionary lashing-out due to the accumulated irritation from the shit I get from being stigmatized for liking Hanson. GUESS WHAT ASSHOLES, THEY'VE GROWN UP, THEIR MUSIC'S GROWN UP, they've stopped living in the 90s and SO SHOULD YOU.)
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Date: 2009-05-20 07:09 pm (UTC)And there's also Take That 8) though I was never a big fan of them.
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Date: 2009-05-20 07:13 pm (UTC)