I’ll have to check the manual, Diane. I know you do get bonus points but I’m not sure how many. I’m under the impression “Roxbury” was only a Class D misdemeanour unless you sing it at karaoke bars or to male friends.
Nope, no karaoke here.
The only time I have sung in public was my tear-jerking rendition of “The Rodeo Song” after more than a few tequila shooters. Didn’t need no stinkin’ karaoke machine either. I think I lost a few male friends that night, I dunno, I can’t remember.
Does that count?
Dr_Pap (sounds like a OB/Gyn) - I’m not into post counts and post parties, but should I be flattered that your number 666 post was spent on me in the Pit?
Sheeesh, you could have at least been a bit more evil.
I have to admit one thing here. While I think that most of today’s bubblegum type music sucks rotten goat balls, I do have to admit that the more melodic groups like N’Sync actually have some good tunes.
Mainly I say this as I sang opera while in high school and was also in every damn choral type music class our local school system had to offer, so I absolutely love music that has good vocal harmonics.
That said from a guy that has a collection of CD’s such as every Frank Zappa, Bela Fleck, Yes, and ELP album on CD. As well as a ton of metal, (all my Metallica is very pre Black Album), Jazz, Progressive, and local bands and not even ONE bubblegum CD.
I leave those to my 14 year old and 16 year old daughters.
At least you have the nads to admit that you like the genre without worrying what some scrotebag is gonna say about your taste in music.
Huzzah!
Will you accept the Holy Ozzy Osbourne as the One And True Savior?
Will you throw off these chains of bubblegum pop that tie you down?
Are you willing so ritually sacrifice all Top 40 material and post-Black Album Metallica?
Only then can you be saved. Repent, I say! Repent!
A six foot black bullwhip? Ozzy ain’t impressed. He’s pissed, and want you to eat a live bat. Goddammit.
Diane, you’re gonna get spanked at AmsterDope. Sheeeeyit! The horror.
jarbabyj, you are so not alone. I am 28, a mother of two, a wife and at times intelligent. I have the N’Sync cd, I listen to it and pretend I am just trying to teach my son the moves so he can grow up and join a boy band but the truth is…I like it and I also have the hots for Lance. My husband is out of state right now so Lance is my wallpaper on my puter! My sister bought me the Lance doll for Christmas and I told my husband she was just being silly because I collect dolls…he never asked why Lance went in the bedroom and all the others went downstairs. I hid my secret Lance lust from the SDMB because I knew I would be ridiculed. But since you came forward, I did too! And now I only wait til July 16th when they come back to San Diego. You’ll hear all about it on the news I am sure, I’ll be the security guard arrested for attacking and molesting that hot young man! I’ll try to lick him for you a few times before they pull me off sobbing. I only pray that Esprix finds it in his heart to bail me out of jail. Of course maybe on July 16th, I’ll forget hot little Lance and just stay home. I’ll listen to Ozzy really loud in a feeble attempt to exorcise my N’Sync demons. I’ll chant to myself that James Hetfield is just as hot now as he was back in the day, a lie I kow but maybe it will quench my young boy lust! Wish me luck!!!
Coldfire, you didn’t mention Rush or Geddy. Shouldn’t they be seated on the dais of the most high holy holiness as well? I hope you have not offended the great deities by failing to mention them. The repercussions could be severe; Mariah Carrey attending the Amsterdope, singing Rush tunes while rapidly opening and closing her mouth for vibrato…
You will be submitting photos taken of Diane getting spanked won’t you?
This
is
just
so
WRONG!!!
Don’t worry, jarbabyj. I own Brittney Spears. I like Brittney Spears. I also own four Metallica albums. Mine, however, are all pre-Black album Metallica. So that is not a talisman against like pop music, either.
::sings::
I’m a Barbie girl, in a Barbie wo-o-orld! Life in plastic! It’s fantastic! You can brush my hair, undress me everywhe-e-ere! Imagination! Life is your creation!
::repeatedly bangs her head on desk in hopes of ridding her brain of the song::
jarbabyj, you’re a strong woman to admit to your bubblegum lovin’ ways. Listen to what you want, and be proud of it! I confess, I’m not really sure who N’Sync is (are?), but if you enjoy them, the more power to you. Someday, if my Duran Duran cassettes ever wear out, I might look into them.
But I must ask, is that person’s name really Lance Bass? Because if so, has anyone thought of putting his face on a plastic fish, mounting on a board, and having it sing N’Sync songs? I think there might be some money in this.
ahaha, I feel so dirty for reading this thread. The thing that pisses me off about commercial pop is that it smothers other talented bands who really do deserve more recognition. As for N’sync’s perfect singing, I was under the impression that it was heavily altered in the production phase.
As for metallica, I’m going to shoot for the uber cool points and say they were mainstream in the 80’s anyway.
The Toronto Trinity are certainly higher up in the chain of command of Rock Gods. But rest assured: they would never accept someone who’s openly admitted to liking 'N Synch. Alex was going to let it slide, but Geddy and Neil veto’ed the deal. Nuh-uh. No fucking way.
I then offered her the redemption that is Ozzy Osbourne. Sure, a lesser God, but better than nothing. Think of it this way: if an ex-prostitute turns to faith, you might accept her in your church. But you woulnd’t want her to conduct the choir. 
Don’t joke about shit like that. The day Mariah Carey sings a Rush song is the day I climb the bell tower.
You betcha.
I have a 13 year old daughter (I have said previously that my twins were 14, but I think that was just me trying to speed them through puberty as quickly as possible) and she is of the screeching, poster-hanging, ohmygod-ohmygod-he’s-such-a-hottie variety.
I hear the bubblegum over and over and over and over and over and over and. . .
Some of the stuff is quite catchy and I’m the type of person who likes to sing really loudly and off key. This music is great for that. But. . .
If I have to listen to It’s Gonna Be Me one more freakin time I swear I’m going to puncture my eardrums with an icepick!
Don’t feel bad…i’m 31 years and have the screaming thigh sweats for Jeff Hardy (wrestler w/ the WWF). I have his action figures and an entire wall of my cube is filled w/ pictures of him-I use them as a pleasant distraction when dealing w/ customers or my boss.
I would sell my grandmother and mother into prostitution for a week of wild jungle sex with Mr Hardy-after that he wouldn’t want anyone else.
If people don’t like what you like…isn’t that what makes the worls an interesting place?Tell them to shut up and get to steppin.
I’m with you on the vocals; I don’t care how popular an act is, if you can’t hold a tune, you’re not showing up on MY cd player. How do you feel about En Vogue? Before Dawn left them, they put together some really great four part harmonies. Those girls could sing. And lest we forget, one of the most beautiful and under-utilized voices of our age; the incredibly bad song-picker Whitney Houston.
Hi…I’m Halber…i’m 19…and i like N’SYNC…and Eiffle 65…and Dream…and Spears…and Michael Jackson…and…oh…i can’t go on…this is too much!
Granted you’d never catch me buying a cd by any of these acts, but you would catch me singing along to their songs when they come on the radio, mostly in my car and i’d make sure i was alone. I also, on occasion dwn mp3s, but i try to hold this vile urge down…i just feel soo icky.
Maybe it’s my affection for synth-pop,maybe it’s my lust for young flesh…um wooops, how did that get in there, maybe it’s because i’m “sensitive”…but damn it…“it’s gona be me”…
I ,like jarbaby…am also on the fringe, music wise. Industrial, ebm, power noise, power electronics, idm, dark ambient, synth-pop…blah blah blah blah…but i can’t FUCKING help it, i constatly catch myself listening to the top 40 local radio station…
I’m a sick, vapid , and not to mention perverted little boy…
May Robo Jay help us all…
Oh jarbaby, I came out last summer about this. It was truly humiliating, but liberating too, you know?
I like *NSYNC. I own three albums (ahem…ordered an import…ahem) Granted, I was still in high school when I started liking them, but…I was most definitely a college sophomore when I went to the last, um, two concerts. And I definitely waited in line for six hours, camped out with a bunch of tweenies.
Um…and I taught them some dance moves.
I think JC is my soul mate.
There! I said it! I am not ashamed!
I’m afraid I might have to leave the Board now.
Seriously, the CDs I listen to most are Erykah Badu - Mama’s Gun, Jill Scott, Me’shell Ndegeocello, Sade, Cowboy Junkies, Joni Mitchell, Janet Jackson and my girl Mary J. So my musical taste may be ten times more mellow than, say, Metallica, and the craziest I get is singing along with the Rent soundtrack, but I’m still embarrassed about loving *NSYNC. I despise everything they stand for…but JC is so cute!
Thankfully, midday through my freshman year of college, I took down the infamous “Wall of Hot Guys” starring *NSYNC and Ricky Martin, and I stopped going to http://www.nsyncstudio.com/ every day to check on gossip, but there’s a part of me that still thinks JC and I are meant to be together.
Can I get a hallelujah, my sister? Next concert I go to, I’ll buy you a poster. 
Hope DDG has no cause to reconsider your perception.
And you’re right on both counts, jarbabyj. Lovin’ Lance is wrong, and your other wish is granted too.
Wow. Can I borrow her for about a week? I want to, uh, do some tests, yeah, that’s it. I want to test her and see if certain, ummm, parts are real. I will give her back, in one piece even. Really! 