Nah, nothing to do with the first same-sex marriage in the Oak Room - more power to 'em and the cake looked amazing.
No - here is the offending quote:
[QUOTE=Sincere, Unironic Millenials] First Dance*: The couple danced to “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” by Starship.
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Look, I can handle that Don’t Stop Believin’ has somehow been canonized as a Legitimate Song in a way it NEVER was in its day (even in South Detroit). But if freakin’ Starship becomes somehow acceptable, we’re going to have to talk.
Now get off my lawn.
(*And, by the way, if you want a cool throwback tune for first dance, everybody knows it’s Kung Fu Fighting.)
Sorry, but I can’t get aboard the OP’s Rage Train, since all my angst is still directed at the Red Sox for making “Sweet Caroline” a goddamn Fenway anthem.
No, WordMan, Journey being retroactively deified wasn’t acceptable, it was a sign of how far the bastards had gotten. The pod people have already gotten into your mind, and you’ll be accepting Starship as inoffensive soon enough.
If we take as a given that 90% of music is crap, and we assume that most people’s taste isn’t randomly distributed between good and bad music, then it follows that the great majority of people have crappy taste.
Apparently, though, the readers of Rolling Stone are an above average lot, as are the Editors of GQ Maqazine:
Didn’t Grace Slick eventually apologize for visiting this plague upon us?
I actually had edited my first post to add a comment that I actually was NOT okay with DSB getting elevated. But I got interrupted and missed the Save window.
Yeah, I find ironic that, IMHO, the use of the song in The Soprano’s final scene was to point out just how banal the context was.
DSB was corporate-rock wallpaper in its day, well executed and pleasant. I hate pleasant.
I normally try not to wish bad things on people no matter how much I detest their actions. But in this case just no. I hope they both get poison oak in the crotch.
Will I get tarred and feathered for admitting to being a fan of “Don’t Stop Believing”? I think it came out before I was born, but I overheard it played at a workout and I kinda fell in love with it.
Now, back to the topic of hate, the canonized song I really despise is “Hey There Delilah”.
The purpose of “YMCA” in a DJ’s repertoire (like “The Electric Slide” and “The Cha-Cha Shuffle”) is to get people onto the dance floor, because everyone knows (or thinks they know) how to dance those. The hope, then, is that once people are on the floor, they’ll stay there for a while, before the next “get people onto the floor” song is needed.
So if you object to “YMCA” being played, the solution is to just keep dancing, so that the DJ won’t need to resort to it.
