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Topic History of: Charlie Brooker in The Guardian today...
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Phil |
Mart wrote:
[quote]A fascinating subject, the dark side of a catchy tune.
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Ray Davies' song "Art Lover" from the 80's album "Give the people what they want" surely did have a really catchy, poppy tune, I'm not sure what message he was putting across in the lyrics,(if any) but I'm sure that if the song was released today the right wing self righteous gutter press jounalists would have a field day, I like the song very much but can imagine the reaction from the type of people who slash paintings and burn books ... |
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Mart |
It was also interesting to see what was virtually another tabloid backlash(?), if there could be such a thing, start heading back the other way. |
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Mike Willis |
I concur with everyone's comments, you can bet your life that The Sun's editors had not even heard the song
and just passed on their opinions because it was JK that was penning the song.
Everyone is entitled to their opinions, but at least Brooker actually listened to it. For the record it was certainly better than our last six or seven Eurovision entries.
My opinion for what it's worth, is that there are a lot of songs that have charted over the last few years that have had worse lyrics.
The media love a good spin, especially the Sun. |
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Mart |
It became a very interesting thread with some great points about song lyrics being close to the mark coming to the fore.
Very little abuse, a certain piano singer songwriter who used to wear a cloth cap got quite a lot of stick, and I do have to agree with the poster who wrote about Nick Lowe`s "Marie Provost", being the one of the poppiest tunes with the most ghastly horrific lyric.
I do hope some of the posters come over and discuss music here, there were some bright views.
A fascinating subject, the dark side of a catchy tune.
Well worth a book. |
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Phil |
JK2006 wrote:
It must be dreadful for the thousands like Sally Clark without the one kind and decent person (Marilyn the Leeds solicitor) prepared to question the law, society, expert witnesses and that wonderful intelligent probing MEDIA.
Huh we should never question the law.
Some years ago I attended a protest against the now infamous "Clause 28" we were described in the local media as "A group of pro-criminal activists"
Apparently if a person dissagrees with a law or feels it is not needed they are pro-criminal! |
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