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Post by gadfly on Mar 8, 2009 22:01:55 GMT -5
(barf) I had the (dis)pleasure of being aurally assaulted with their caterwauling "music" in a local used-books store recently. Now they have a movie coming out. Here's a review of it from MovieGuide, the same site that whined about how nasty Watchmen was. And of course, since the JoBros are professing Christians and don't swear, have premarital sex, drink, or do drugs, their movie is a-OK. Never mind that practically every one of their songs is about maudlin, hormone-drenched tweeniebopper 'romance', or that their vocals sound like tom-cats with their testes being crushed by a brick, or that their guitars sound like the usual "guitar-playing as a substitute for on-stage masturbation" (seriously... look at the movie poster), apparently they promote a "[r]elatively strong moral, clean worldview with some light Romantic elements in some of the lyrics of the pop songs". Seriously... light Romantic elements?  So, has anyone else heard the Jonas Brothers' awful music, or is being forced to accompany a younger relative to their 2-hour merch advertisement movie? Post your vitriol thoughts here. |
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Post by Paradox on Mar 8, 2009 22:07:23 GMT -5
My apathy regarding all things pop-culture has been carefully cultivated by years of ignoring celebrates and listening to awesome music from the 60's and 70's. Nonetheless, I have had the misfortune of becoming aware of Hannah Montana. What a great idea that was, getting girls nationwide to empathize with the struggles of a pop star to live a normal life! Because that's something that most people will totally have to deal with in their lives. Hollywood's self absorption has officially evolved into meta-absorption. I await poor Miley Cyrus' inevitable crash-and-burn downfall with apathetic resignation.
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Post by gadfly on Mar 8, 2009 22:29:34 GMT -5
Ah, Miley Cyrus, she of the potato nose and nudie shots (artistic or otherwise).
However, IMHO, the Jonas Brothers are far more irritating.
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Post by Sigmaleph on Mar 8, 2009 22:30:28 GMT -5
there's a movie now? I'm so glad it I don't have to take the younger elements of the family to the cinema...
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Post by Pookie on Mar 9, 2009 9:31:18 GMT -5
I was watching the news one day (I think it was NBC) and they had the Jonas Brothers as a musical guest.
Their live performances are bad enough to make your ears bleed. Luckily, since I am the youngest in my household, I've never had to subject myself to anything but that and their icky faces.
I want the old days of television back, back when I could watch crazy baby dinosaur puppets beating their fathers over the head with a frying pan saying "NOT THE MAMA," back when Rocko's Modern Life was all the rage and Disney products had a little substance.
*depressionface*
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Post by wisechild on Mar 9, 2009 12:52:56 GMT -5
It's like they are trying to copy some sort of Emo/Indie aesthetic, but pushed through the Disney candy press. The frontman (or more mature looking boy) is trying to do some sort of thrift store look, but without the second hand clothes. He seems to wear a get-up two sizes too small, of what I've seen in press photos and posters. Or too-small t-shirt. Shaggy hair, but not too unkempt, no piercings, and I'm sure some studio exec thought that black square eyeglasses looked too nerdy. Of course, their music has nothing going for them. They are trying to sound like . . . . . . .  ?? As i said, it's like Disney is trying to co-opt the "Emo" thing and came up with something really shallow. |
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Post by deliciousdemon on Mar 9, 2009 13:21:18 GMT -5
My apathy regarding all things pop-culture has been carefully cultivated by years of ignoring celebrates and listening to awesome music from the 60's and 70's. Nonetheless, I have had the misfortune of becoming aware of Hannah Montana. What a great idea that was, getting girls nationwide to empathize with the struggles of a pop star to live a normal life! Because that's something that most people will totally have to deal with in their lives. Hollywood's self absorption has officially evolved into meta-absorption. I await poor Miley Cyrus' inevitable crash-and-burn downfall with apathetic resignation. The marketing was fantastic as well, they aired the first episode after High School Musical #56, so bam: 10 million viewers hooked. |
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Post by CtraK on Mar 9, 2009 22:10:28 GMT -5
apparently they promote a "[r]elatively strong moral, clean worldview with some light Romantic elements in some of the lyrics of the pop songs". Seriously... light Romantic elements? Agreed... Romanticism is a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength during the Industrial Revolution.[1] It was partly a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature, and was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature. The movement stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as trepidation, horror and awe—especially that which is experienced in confronting the sublimity of untamed nature and its picturesque qualities, both new aesthetic categories. It elevated folk art and custom to something noble, and argued for a "natural" epistemology of human activities as conditioned by nature in the form of language, custom and usage. Also, you don't need to see a single frame of this film to know it'll be as enjoyable as eating your own powdered ejaculate out of a can. |
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Post by The Lazy One on Mar 10, 2009 5:28:52 GMT -5
Every day I thank Ceiling Cat that my younger brother hates the Disney Channel, and I'm not going to be forced to take him to said movie...
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