Paul Shane was one of the stars of a popular and long-running UK sitcom Hi-de-Hi. After the show ceased production, he tried to launch a second career as a singer.
Haha, yeah fuck that 14 year old girl for wanting to make a cool music video with her friends! What a loser!
Back when I was a kid, we would do stuff like that, and then NOT post it in a place accessible to the entire world.
There are at least four editions of the golden Throats records/CDs. We own the first three. Many of the entries are either hilariously bad or misguided (notably Shatner and Nimoy’s entries, although Sebastian Cabot reciting Bob Dylan’s ouvre as if it’s written poetry is pretty surreal), but there are a few that aren’t all that bad (Muhammed Ali, back when he was Cassius Clay, doing Stand by Me is pretty good; Jim Nabors is underappreciated as a singer – his “You ar the Sunshine of my Life” is very good).
then there are the WTF moments, like Jack Webb – Yes! Humorless Joe Friday from Dragnet! – reciting “Try a Little Tenderness” , or Andy Griffith singing a version of “House of the Rising Sun” with the lyrics almost completely changed (because Sheriff Andy would never sing about a bordello).
It is incredibly disappointing to me that you think that makes a difference.
Thanks for reminding me.
Tom Paxton is a reasonably good self-taught singer and guitar player, but there is a good reason his songs are so recorded by other people.
And then there’s Kinky Friedman. Nobody could image Kinky Friedman, but he does exist.
Should have been in the 2nd post, if not the OP.
I suppose it’s arguable how “famous” they really were, although they did have a brief window of popularity during the British invasion. But I’ve always wondered what was the ratio of audience members who actually enjoyed Freddie and the Dreamers, versus those who just came to stare in dumbfounded horror at the goofy dance they did during every performance.
Seriously, scour YouTube and try to find a clip where they don’t do it. It can’t be done!
Of course, Ascenray said nothing of the kind, and distorting the post in this way is ridiculous. Regardless of the intent of Rebecca Black, the video is famous because it was so bad, and so is an answer to the OP.
How does the fact that she was 14 make the video better?
Blrrrfff! I managed to protect the keyboard from a spray of coffee when I laughed. Everything else, not so much.
Yeah Edith’s singing voice was even worse than Lucy Ricardo’s voice.
Right, and saying the music was awful is NOT the same thing as saying that she was awful or wrong or a bad person for making it or for posting it.
It doesn’t make the video better. I just don’t happen to think trashing a teen girl for wanting to feel special for a day is a particularly attractive look for adults.
It was a minor dance craze at the time; they were definitely popular, since they weren’t shown on American TV until they had a hit.
If Sterling Archer wanted to say that the music was bad, then he should have mentioned Ark Music Factory or Patrice Wilson or Clarence Jey who managed the company that produced the video and wrote the song and lyrics.
And I don’t know how to read Acsenray’s post other than as saying that she was wrong to have posted it online.
Agreed on both points. It was merely an observation.
When you’re in a hole, you should stop digging. Once again, you’re attacking Acsenray for something he didn’t come close to saying. He didn’t trash the girl, he merely pointed out that she was famous because the video she made was bad. This is a simple factually correct statement. If you’re reading other stuff into it that isn’t in the post, that’s on you.
You’re kidding, right? Of course it wasn’t “wrong” in the sense of her being a bad person to post it. But it was clearly a massive mistake on her part. How could anyone possibly think otherwise? Now, she can be forgiven since as a teen she was naive enough to think the video was good. And of course, she couldn’t have predicted it would have become viral. I feel sorry for her, since it wasn’t her fault, but in retrospect posting it was certainly an error, even if an innocent one.
We were 14 or so when the ‘British Invasion’ came along and we thought they were an absolute hoot. We were young unsophisticated kids just into puberty. Those were giddy times! (yes, we thought Freddy was goofy, but even we knew the silly dance was to make themselves stand out in a crowded field.)
At first I read this as Bill Paxton and was like “but he doesn’t write his own stuff.”