the feeling of incredulous betrayal when someone is like “BEST COVER I’VE EVER HEARD” and it turns out the cover concept is “acoustic guitar, 12x slower, gentle man bleating”
With all the heat Anita Sarkeesian gets for her Tropes series, you’d think it was a new topic, but Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert had a discussion on a similar theme when they were talking about the influx of slasher movies on their show in 1980.
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I can’t believe this post made it to my dash with this valuable commentary deleted. This is the entire reason that this show came up in the first place. Here’s the Polygon article that broached the subject. It’s incredibly relevant to entertainment media of all kinds today.
Part 1 was already linked by the OP, but here’s part 2 of the show for convenience. (x)
saying “that’s how things are” is incredibly useless when talking about social issues because yes, we are aware that that’s how things are, and we don’t like it, that’s the whole point
congratulations on providing no useful input to the conversation
Track
Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)
Artist
My Chemical Romance
na na na (na na na na na na na na na) // my chemical romance
remember when you were a mad man?
thought you was batman
and hit the party with a gas can
kiss me, you animal
“I think Bigfoot is blurry, that’s the problem. It’s not the photographers’ fault. Bigfoot is blurry and that’s extra scary to me. There’s a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside.”
— Mitch Hedberg (via archiemcphee)
