Dresden Dolls-ultimate win

[The_Reverend_M]

'Wired For Sound' is a tune. Fact.

*not joking*

 

[dodgepot]

still not totally sure though, none of them have managed to tell me anything thats actually GOOD about Girls Aloud.

for a start, it's not OI!

 

[dodgepot]

expresso bongo was a great film

 

[El Jefe]

i dunno if someone thinking you're a knob means that you're winding them up, tbh.

yeh, he doesn't wind me up. Make me depressed about the state of humanity sometimes, maybe.

as for "explaining what's good about Girls Aloud". There's no need, people like what they like, or dislike what they dislike. And it's fine to argue about that. But not from a position of ignorance, narrowmindedness, crass stupidity and wanton bigotry.

And yes, Trevor, I mean you.

 

[El Jefe]

there's something about Amanda Palmer that unsettles me.

Which is the kind of "Cult of Amanda Palmer"

like in this video:

at the end of the (quite enjoyable) vid there's a big spiel about how twitter liberates art by allowing artists direct contact with their audience, thus allowing Amanda Palmer and some arty mates to make a "guerilla video" in half an hour on the beach. But it doesn't take into account the people there simply being big Amanda Palmer fans, it's not an level playing field encounter between different people and at the end there's shots of Palmer being hoisted aloft as some sort of icon by the fans. For them, it's just a chance to see an idol for free - and unexpectedly get to be in a vid. And the blurb gleefully announces nobody was paid.

Meanwhile it furthers the career of... Amanda Palmer. Who does get paid

Somehow it's not the democratising tool Palmer genuinely thinks it is.

Does that make any sense?