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“Crumbs cupcake….blah.”
No good, huh? Why is it so hard to make a good tasting and good looking cupcake?
I bought some at a very well-known local place, and the cake was too dense, and the frosting was just sugar, no flavor, just color and sugar with a waxy consistency. YUCK.
Not everyone can sing, but many people could benefit from singing lessons.
I sang in a pickup choir twice this summer. I can read music more or less and perform, but sing, not so much. I was quite proud at hitting a high note at the end of one song though. that’s about as far as I’ll get, singing-wise.
I have a respectable London fog trenchcoat, I look dashing in it I’ve been told. I do have a Burberry necktie, which I tie in a double windsor when I wear it, the only tie I do that with.
Just went to Starbucks and got a caramel macchiato. upon returning as I talked with my coworkers I noticed the barista had let THREE hairs get trapped in the lid.
Just catching up on pop music and the Ke$ha phenomenon. Pop music hype and sales seem to be ruled by tween girls and their downloads (I’ve got the earworms to prove it). MM — I agree totally on ornamentation, which I find doubly annoying when there is no underlying style, just a kitchen sinkful of frills. Someone like Betty Carter has a highly embellished style, but it is all rooted in a coherent underlying approach, so you don’t notice it as embellishment, but as personality. I don’t know which is worse, ornamentation run wild, or voices flattened into Hal-dom via autotune (step away from the autotune, Miley, and give it to DIBS, instead). We’re raising a cultural generation that won’t ever know what a real voice sounds like.
For an antidote, check out Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. Jones is channeling 60s soul (the band is almost too perfect, recording analog etc.), but her voice is really hers. She’s singing what she feels, not some producer’s idea of what pop singing should sound like. The intonations flow from the actual words and what she might feel singing them. I got into her music for the band, but I’ve come to appreciate her singing more. It’s nothing fancy, just honest and it works.
Rob, your ignorance is showing again. You know nothing about music, so kindly shut up.
I didn’t “borify” music. I was talking about rules of Western music that have been codified since the Middle Ages. I actually have a degree in this, so I think I’m qualified to state my opinion, without your snarky and negative remarks.
And no, not everyone can sing. There is nothing snobby or elitest about it. It’s just a fact.
“Crumbs cupcake….blah.”
No good, huh? Why is it so hard to make a good tasting and good looking cupcake?
I bought some at a very well-known local place, and the cake was too dense, and the frosting was just sugar, no flavor, just color and sugar with a waxy consistency. YUCK.
Not everyone can sing, but many people could benefit from singing lessons.
I sang in a pickup choir twice this summer. I can read music more or less and perform, but sing, not so much. I was quite proud at hitting a high note at the end of one song though. that’s about as far as I’ll get, singing-wise.
I have a respectable London fog trenchcoat, I look dashing in it I’ve been told. I do have a Burberry necktie, which I tie in a double windsor when I wear it, the only tie I do that with.
Just went to Starbucks and got a caramel macchiato. upon returning as I talked with my coworkers I noticed the barista had let THREE hairs get trapped in the lid.
“I just had one of those cupcakes I spoke about earlier and I’m slipping into a sugar coma.”
Should we send a paramedic? : P
I tried a Crumbs cupcake on Montague. I got a chocolate with chocolate frosting, forget what they called it……..blah.
Just catching up on pop music and the Ke$ha phenomenon. Pop music hype and sales seem to be ruled by tween girls and their downloads (I’ve got the earworms to prove it). MM — I agree totally on ornamentation, which I find doubly annoying when there is no underlying style, just a kitchen sinkful of frills. Someone like Betty Carter has a highly embellished style, but it is all rooted in a coherent underlying approach, so you don’t notice it as embellishment, but as personality. I don’t know which is worse, ornamentation run wild, or voices flattened into Hal-dom via autotune (step away from the autotune, Miley, and give it to DIBS, instead). We’re raising a cultural generation that won’t ever know what a real voice sounds like.
For an antidote, check out Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. Jones is channeling 60s soul (the band is almost too perfect, recording analog etc.), but her voice is really hers. She’s singing what she feels, not some producer’s idea of what pop singing should sound like. The intonations flow from the actual words and what she might feel singing them. I got into her music for the band, but I’ve come to appreciate her singing more. It’s nothing fancy, just honest and it works.
“i guess you are consistent in your liking when it comes to music as with architecture :)”
yeah, classical architecture is the new fuddy duddy.
Rob, your ignorance is showing again. You know nothing about music, so kindly shut up.
I didn’t “borify” music. I was talking about rules of Western music that have been codified since the Middle Ages. I actually have a degree in this, so I think I’m qualified to state my opinion, without your snarky and negative remarks.
And no, not everyone can sing. There is nothing snobby or elitest about it. It’s just a fact.
I just had one of those cupcakes I spoke about earlier and I’m slipping into a sugar coma.