So anyone who follows this blog, or found it and looked
through old posts would know that I did a series called youtube top five a
while back. In that series I went to youtube each month listened to the top
five songs and gave my thoughts about them. The problem with this series is
that youtube audience really really likes having contented repeated so each
month always had at least two if not three or even four of the same tracks from
the last month. So there was a lot of repeated content on the blog, which I
guess if anyone who watch youtube reads this blog would be a good thing. I’m
totally gonna just repost this exact same post a month from now. Then a month
after that, it’ll be the most popular blog ever! I digress. Point is, I didn’t
like half of each post just being a copy of the previous one, but I did like
talking about popular music. So this is the new thing, not the top five songs,
just five popular ones. Go to youtube, click the music link, anything on that
page is fair game for this post.
Track one (Top tracks)
Taylor swift – I knew you were trouble
Hey it’s another Taylor Swift song, I like that girl. Annnnnnd the first two fucking minutes of this video aren’t a song. What the fuck Taylor? So after two minutes of her gabbing about some guy who broke her heart – hold the fucking phone here. Taylor we need to sit down and have a talk about this shit. After this many bad relationships do you ever think maybe you shouldn’t get invested so quickly? Or maybe there’s something wrong with you? Not that there aren’t bad guys out there, but Taylor you either have terrible taste in men, or the problem is not solely their fault. Okay, rant over. So what do I think of the song? I like it. Good not great. Little more repetitive than really necessary makes me feel like she just couldn’t actually come up with a whole songs worth and said fuck it I’ll just say trouble waaaaaay too many times. And one more thing, Taylor, if you knew he was trouble when you saw him, why did you date him?
Track two (Trending)
Girls’ Generation – I got a boy
So if I had to take a guess at it this video is only popular cause, hey aren’t the Japanese people weird? Well there’s this video of reasonably attractive Japanese girls dancing and singing and being weird Japanese people! We should watch it! And presumably that happened about 7.7 million times. This whole Japanese people being weird thing makes me wonder something; do you think Japanese people ever sit around talking about how weird American people are? If we say all that “weird” stuff is just their culture, then wouldn’t our culture appear “weird” to them? Anyway, the song, eh it’s mediocre. Not really all that bad but I see no musical reason to be drawn to this video. And it’s not that I don’t like the song because I can’t understand it. I like plenty of songs I can’t understand. Hell there are parts of songs I like that are in English that I can’t fully understand.
Track three (Rap & Hip-Hop)
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Thrift Shop feat. Wanz
So as I was writing up this post I ask Blue to pick a song off the YouTube music page, he picked this one. This is legitamently a song about a thrift store. The singer talks about the great deals he gets on second hand merchandise and mocks people who pay for expensive clothes when he manages to look good buying and discount prices. It’s not a bad song. It’s not really all that good. But I would imagine a song about a thrift store would be really stupid and this one isn’t. So it’s good in the respect that someone wrote a song about shopping at a thrift store and it isn’t just stupid crap. But that’s all this song is, dude talks about how cheap thrift stores are and how everywhere else is a rip off.
Track four (Rock)
Guns N’ Roses – November Rain
Have we seriously not had a good rock hit in that long? The fucking November Rain is one of the top tracks for rock? Is that genre seriously that dead? Seriously, what was the last good rock song? The only thing I can come up with here is Breaking Benjamin. I think I will not bow was their most recent big hit. I’m just kinda depressed now. There really have not been that many good solid rock songs in quite a while. Sure, BB is still around, but the song from them I always think of that is the best rock song is Diary of Jane, and that was released in fucking 2007. For those keeping score, that’s six years ago. Six fucking years and I can’t think up a single solid rock song. God that’s depressing.
Track five (Pop)
Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen – Good Time
So I can only assume that that combination of names cause some messes in some people pants. For those of you who don’t know those names, that’s the guy who did fireflies (Also I think vanilla twilight is one of his popular ones and the song, when can I see you again, from wreck it Ralph, was actually really good) and the girl who did fucking call me maybe (I actually don’t have any other songs to mention here cause nobody knows any of her other songs). But yes, those two made a song together. The song is about, well it’s just like the title says, it’s about having a good time. This is more what I would call party music than pop, but actual genres are so blurred it’s hard to say what’s what. But I can say, I like this song. This song is in fact a good time. I like Owl City’s voice and his general style and he certainly has the lead on this song and have Jepsen as a complement to his own style works well. I do thing the verse she sings is the weakest of the song but I think having her in the chorus is actually more beneficial to the song. Overall Jepsen being in the song is positive and yeah, I like it. I like it a lot. As a side note, not only is Owl City the better singer, he also has the better car. Double Whammy there Jepsen.
Track one (Top tracks)
Taylor swift – I knew you were trouble
Hey it’s another Taylor Swift song, I like that girl. Annnnnnd the first two fucking minutes of this video aren’t a song. What the fuck Taylor? So after two minutes of her gabbing about some guy who broke her heart – hold the fucking phone here. Taylor we need to sit down and have a talk about this shit. After this many bad relationships do you ever think maybe you shouldn’t get invested so quickly? Or maybe there’s something wrong with you? Not that there aren’t bad guys out there, but Taylor you either have terrible taste in men, or the problem is not solely their fault. Okay, rant over. So what do I think of the song? I like it. Good not great. Little more repetitive than really necessary makes me feel like she just couldn’t actually come up with a whole songs worth and said fuck it I’ll just say trouble waaaaaay too many times. And one more thing, Taylor, if you knew he was trouble when you saw him, why did you date him?
Track two (Trending)
Girls’ Generation – I got a boy
So if I had to take a guess at it this video is only popular cause, hey aren’t the Japanese people weird? Well there’s this video of reasonably attractive Japanese girls dancing and singing and being weird Japanese people! We should watch it! And presumably that happened about 7.7 million times. This whole Japanese people being weird thing makes me wonder something; do you think Japanese people ever sit around talking about how weird American people are? If we say all that “weird” stuff is just their culture, then wouldn’t our culture appear “weird” to them? Anyway, the song, eh it’s mediocre. Not really all that bad but I see no musical reason to be drawn to this video. And it’s not that I don’t like the song because I can’t understand it. I like plenty of songs I can’t understand. Hell there are parts of songs I like that are in English that I can’t fully understand.
Track three (Rap & Hip-Hop)
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Thrift Shop feat. Wanz
So as I was writing up this post I ask Blue to pick a song off the YouTube music page, he picked this one. This is legitamently a song about a thrift store. The singer talks about the great deals he gets on second hand merchandise and mocks people who pay for expensive clothes when he manages to look good buying and discount prices. It’s not a bad song. It’s not really all that good. But I would imagine a song about a thrift store would be really stupid and this one isn’t. So it’s good in the respect that someone wrote a song about shopping at a thrift store and it isn’t just stupid crap. But that’s all this song is, dude talks about how cheap thrift stores are and how everywhere else is a rip off.
Track four (Rock)
Guns N’ Roses – November Rain
Have we seriously not had a good rock hit in that long? The fucking November Rain is one of the top tracks for rock? Is that genre seriously that dead? Seriously, what was the last good rock song? The only thing I can come up with here is Breaking Benjamin. I think I will not bow was their most recent big hit. I’m just kinda depressed now. There really have not been that many good solid rock songs in quite a while. Sure, BB is still around, but the song from them I always think of that is the best rock song is Diary of Jane, and that was released in fucking 2007. For those keeping score, that’s six years ago. Six fucking years and I can’t think up a single solid rock song. God that’s depressing.
Track five (Pop)
Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen – Good Time
So I can only assume that that combination of names cause some messes in some people pants. For those of you who don’t know those names, that’s the guy who did fireflies (Also I think vanilla twilight is one of his popular ones and the song, when can I see you again, from wreck it Ralph, was actually really good) and the girl who did fucking call me maybe (I actually don’t have any other songs to mention here cause nobody knows any of her other songs). But yes, those two made a song together. The song is about, well it’s just like the title says, it’s about having a good time. This is more what I would call party music than pop, but actual genres are so blurred it’s hard to say what’s what. But I can say, I like this song. This song is in fact a good time. I like Owl City’s voice and his general style and he certainly has the lead on this song and have Jepsen as a complement to his own style works well. I do thing the verse she sings is the weakest of the song but I think having her in the chorus is actually more beneficial to the song. Overall Jepsen being in the song is positive and yeah, I like it. I like it a lot. As a side note, not only is Owl City the better singer, he also has the better car. Double Whammy there Jepsen.
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