Jeff in BigD
Oldschool DISer
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I was flipping through the late night stuff & Kilbourne was introducing a band, which always makes me stop.
He was intro-ing this band called tattoo or whatever & I'd heard the name, so I figured I'd check 'em out & see what their bit is. I see a couple of chicks in school girl outfits & I'm thinkin' this oughta be kinda cool, at least asthetically. They weren't all that hot, but the school girl look is kinda cool. Yeah, I know, sue me.
So the music starts with this ultra-repetitive chorus "All the things she said", though when it keeps going & going is it technically a chorus? Then it becomes painfully evident that they're lip-syncing & it's so bad that even Milli or Vanilli (whichever one didn't kill himself) would have been making fun of them. And I thought, so is this what passes for talent these days?
I was about to punch out when I saw them lean in to kiss & I was like "well, you don't see this everyday" (unless you work for Girls Gone Wild or you wear PJs all day & people call you "Hef"). Then the camera switches to the drummer...the drummer?! So instead of showing what is now clearly revieled as their hook, a couple of mediocre chicks muggin' down, they show this Moby-like goofball drummer dude. Meanwhile the crowd is screaming like they've never seen a girl in real life before. The camera comes back on the "singers" when they've stopped & they start in for a few more lines of their lyrically moronic song.
And that gimmick is kinda lame anyway. I mean if they were doing magic tricks, riding unicycles or juggling puppies while playing tonsil hockey that would be one thing, but if you're gonna have a lame bit, have a little talent to back it up, right?
That's 5 minutes of my life that I could have been dipping my fingers in wax that I'll never have back. My prediction is that they're not even gonna rate a VH1 "where are they now" status in a few years. Dude, I miss Billy Idol.
He was intro-ing this band called tattoo or whatever & I'd heard the name, so I figured I'd check 'em out & see what their bit is. I see a couple of chicks in school girl outfits & I'm thinkin' this oughta be kinda cool, at least asthetically. They weren't all that hot, but the school girl look is kinda cool. Yeah, I know, sue me.
So the music starts with this ultra-repetitive chorus "All the things she said", though when it keeps going & going is it technically a chorus? Then it becomes painfully evident that they're lip-syncing & it's so bad that even Milli or Vanilli (whichever one didn't kill himself) would have been making fun of them. And I thought, so is this what passes for talent these days?
I was about to punch out when I saw them lean in to kiss & I was like "well, you don't see this everyday" (unless you work for Girls Gone Wild or you wear PJs all day & people call you "Hef"). Then the camera switches to the drummer...the drummer?! So instead of showing what is now clearly revieled as their hook, a couple of mediocre chicks muggin' down, they show this Moby-like goofball drummer dude. Meanwhile the crowd is screaming like they've never seen a girl in real life before. The camera comes back on the "singers" when they've stopped & they start in for a few more lines of their lyrically moronic song.
And that gimmick is kinda lame anyway. I mean if they were doing magic tricks, riding unicycles or juggling puppies while playing tonsil hockey that would be one thing, but if you're gonna have a lame bit, have a little talent to back it up, right?
That's 5 minutes of my life that I could have been dipping my fingers in wax that I'll never have back. My prediction is that they're not even gonna rate a VH1 "where are they now" status in a few years. Dude, I miss Billy Idol.
