I know #1 singles isn't the definition of good writing, but it certainly means you can write a ton of songs that appeal to the masses.
It's worse than that. Going to #1 means that you've written a song that appeals to the coveted 16-24 demographic. Those are the people who tend to be the most passionate about music and who spend the most on downloads and concert tickets.
Which means that if you're going to #1, you have to pretty much write literal children's music. Your songs will all be about finding a boyfriend or being horny or looking cooler than you are.
They will be immediately understood, lack any and all nuance or poetry, and be based in familiar chord structures. They will be in 4/4 without any key changes; they will be played at about 120 BPM.
Fun fact: Katy Perry brought her first draft of Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) to her label, and they told her: this isn't dumb enough. Make it so dumb that the dumbest teenager can understand it, and put in something about group sex.
It was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks. Great songwriting, indeed.
And of course it's four chords on a loop, IV–ii–vi–V, the same as All Star and Just Like Heaven and Closing Time and Knockin' on Heaven's Door, at 126 BPM. When people tell me AI music is uncreative, I just have to scoff.
"Don't mess with the classics." I love it. A cliché that's an excuse for cliché. Basically it's you saying: "I'm boring and basic and I'm fucking proud of it."
lol. Half of these songwriters are absolute shit at writing songs. Mariah Carey? Lionel Ritchie? You kidding me? They're both absolute hacks.
It's the same thing as with the Grammys. Taste in music is so diverse that we've just given up and decided that "popular = good." Madonna is considered better than Modest Mouse because she moved more plastic. Whatever. But I assure you that Isaac Brock can write Mariah Carey into the fucking ground.
A little older. South Park is what brought it into the public consciousness, and it's where you're getting it, and we both know that. You haven't updated your insults in twenty-five years. Sad!
Kind of reminds me of when Trump quoted from "Two Corinthians."
California will turn anyone with more than a million dollars into a Republican. But then you put them in a room with a Georgia Republican and they have literally nothing in common.
Brin's the kind of Republican who'd have voted for Vivek Ramaswamy in 2024.
"Sand in your vagina"? You're going with a 2001 South Park throwaway joke? Eh, whatever, I didn't expect anything of you.
...just in case you'd missed that he put his Jewish son-in-law in charge of the government, appointed another Jew his Deputy Chief of Staff, ran with a gay VP, made another gay billionare his tech advisor, put women in charge of Justice and National Intelligence and Homeland Security, made a black woman who was just a reality star his Director of Communications...
Donnie wants to tell one group "I'm getting rid of all this DEI shit because MAGA is for straight white men" and the brag to another group "I have the most diverse people ever because MAGA is a big tent."
lol, I suppose if I were a woman, I might be complimented by that. I'd be like "Ah, Petey doesn't think I have a dick! How sweet."
You could have stopped at "It's only anti-Semitism." I mean, what else even is there on Scored. Apparently a little sprinkle of "I hate niggers and jeets" and a little sprinkle of "women have too many rights" and that's the whole site.
lol, I'm pretty sure no woman has ever been anywhere near here.
The US public can have multiple enemies, and Democrats and Trump are both very much in that category.
And it's so weird that the hardcore conservative values boomers ever defended him.
I mean, the strategic MAGA guys, I got that. They were like "He's obviously a reprobate and a piece of shit, but he's our way to get things done, and politics is ugly."
And then when he stopped getting things done, he was just a reprobate and a piece of shit, period.
But the values boomers? The guys who were on fire because Clinton got a consensual hummer from an adult mistress? Fucking Donald is their guy? Apparently they were just lying about having values or something.
Sure, because basic logic means that if you identify the bad guys, you've also identified the good guys. Basic logic makes it impossible for two opposing groups to both do bad things, right?
Yeah, it's not about reputation. It's just that when you cruise on over to what KIA became, and you find nothing about video games, just eight anti-Jew memes a day, it's like: well this is a fucking disappointment. Not only is it boring and entirely pointless, but back when all the feminists were saying "GamerGate's just Neo-Nazis using gaming as an excuse to be Neo-Nazis," well... way to prove 'em right?
Like what? Pickleball? Basketweaving? These activities are superior and more productive than anything you can do with the aid of a computer and an Internet connection?
Quite the dedicated Donnie fanboy, I presume?
That community's just falling apart. MAGA's turning against Donald. In some cases he just isn't making any progress on their agendas. In other cases he's working actively against them. They're pissed. When you've got Tucker Carlson and MTG and Megyn Kelly and Joe Rogan and Alex Jones and Ann Coulter and Candace Owens all loudly saying that you're an idiot and a disgrace and a traitor to the cause... well you're probably fucked.
Donald was a super fun novelty when that community started. Now he's a lame duck with dementia and no coherent worldview or plan, and it's just sad.
Ah, I see, so because the Red Army butchered German civilians, the Germans couldn't have possibly butchered millions of undesirables; after all, it's impossible for two things to be true at the same time.
If it's "carrying water" to say I don't give a shit about your hate-memes and I find them repetitive and annoying, then sure, I guess.
I wouldn't want to see five anti-Christian memes a day, either. Unlike some people, I don't have some masturbatory need to regularly see my worldview confirmed to me in meme form.
There are exactly as many first-person accounts as there are people who survived to collect free money from the state for the rest of their natural lives.
Untrue. Dick Winters, Don Malarkey, and Babe Heffron are three of the most famous counterexamples. They were three of the men who liberated a Dachau subcamp as part of their service with Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. They gave specific and consistent details about the hellscape they saw there. So you think they're all fucking liars?
The old KIA cared about their reputation somewhat. They thought it would be nice to be taken seriously. This incarnation obviously gave up on that long ago.
Okay, so "go outside" isn't really about doing yourself a favor. It's just another way to phrase "go away, I don't like you." Makes sense.
Berg's saying he feels deeply connected to the Special Operations community and wants to portray it with full authenticity.
I think this is probably just going to be a generic Spec Ops movie with the name "Call of Duty" slapped on it for nothing but marketing reasons. Sort of like Black Hawk Down except fiction.
No need for propaganda. I can get "Trump is a reprobate and a piece of shit" from a single source, and it's called Truth Social.