The current rap fad (if it can be called a fad at all) is a real pain in the ass and the ears.
Current day youth music is utter crap even when compared to the Rock and Roll artists of the past.
I know I’m being obvious, but have some of you guys even heard the lyrics behind today’s youth? I’m shoked so many people like this music. I’d like to think so people like because there friends like it too.
I honestly don’t how long this dirty rap has been “cool” but it better die out soon, they are killing real music with this crap.
Good lord, what are you people going to be like in twenty years?
I think you’re objecting to the popularity of hip-hop. Do not confuse the popular aspect with the form itself. If metal or bubblegum or power pop was this generation’s popular music, you’d hear the misogyny, bad words, and see the scantily-clad dancers there. Oh wait. They are being misogynistic, cursing, and showing their booties and midriffs as well in those genres. If A&R people discovered that peace and sunshine sold records they’d be doing that instead.
Just tired of the “I hate rap” screeds on this board. And I don’t even like current popular hip-hop that much.
(On preview, what Hunter Hawk and Pork Rind said.)
Things that need to go away: excessive tattooing, dressing as if you’re an anorexic SoCal teenager (big people can wear fashions that are more flattering to their body type than bare midriffs and hiphugger jeans, and if you’re beyond your early twenties it’s time to find a more mature look)… the other things that bug me seem to be inherently part of living in American society, so why get bothered?
Back in my day, we used to walk uphill in the snow to school. . . BOTH WAYS. We were so poor we couldn’t afford shoes so we wore our socks and our hands and walked on our hands! And you know what? We LIKED it that way. Kids these days don’t have no respect for hand walking, shoeless people without cars, let me tell you.
So trends I hate? Older people attacking everything we youngins do as horrible compared to how wonderful their youths were? Nah, I just look forward to getting to do that someday myself.
I’m actually not a fan of body extreme cultures-- either the anorexic apologists (ahem, Hollywood) or the fat apologists. Neither is ok.
I also can’t wait for skinny pants to go out. Goddamnit, they look good on three people. If that.
I just hope the trend towards vapidness in American culture runs its course soon. In general, I want to see people stop paying attention to nonsense (Paris, Brangelina, OC, etc. etc. and sadly etc.) and start paying attention the host of very serious issues we face.
I’d also like to see people start acting their age. No more boomers dressing like teens. I think this trend goes hand in hand with the first one.
Uggs? Uggs are at least practical, even though ugly as hell. It’s those fucking flip-flops I want stopped as a trend. Hey, if there is a shower, a pool or the beach nearby- you shouldn;t be wearing those.
Other things I hate:
Baseball hats being worn backwards or sideways. :mad:
Huge fucking SUV’s being driven either by guys with tiny peni who think that a BIG SUV will made the gals ignore your shortcomings. :rolleyes: Or by moron soccer moms who think that a Huge SUV will make their “precious babies” be safer. (Hint, it won’t. SUV’s are far more dangerous that a normal run of the middle well-build mid-size car. Shit for the kind of cash those soccer Moms lay out they can get a fucking Volvo and have their precious little babies be safer than in a bank vault.)
Yaping on cellphones while driving.
Rap? Rap can be very cool. It’s the hatred-based gangsta rap that is actually evil. It begets violence and lack of respect towards “bitches”. :rolleyes:
Drug-waif models. Having them give awards to Kate Addict Moss was like telling millions of girls “Hey, take drugs, be anorexic and get a heroin addict for a boyfreind and you’ll be rich, famous and popular.” :rolleyes: :mad:
DiosaBellissima: you don;t have to worry about “skinny pants”- they are only a fad in the minds of ad agencies and the media. Few outside Hollywood are wearing them.
Just thought of another one (although I know this won’t go away): the need for people to be constantly on the phone. They can’t stand in line, walk their dog, or drive their car without being in a constant and inane conversation with someone else.
I’m sick of the rock ‘n’ roll music. It’s just a beat and some unkempt young man who can’t sing, strumming a guitar off key. And the lyrics, good lord! With the simplicity of the music, you would imagine they’d have some brain power left to devote to the creation of some interesting lyrics, but, no, it’s all “baby this” and “yeah yeah that.” And don’t get me started on the way those kids dance to it!
And Tee Shirts! Whatever happened to a young man looking respectable in a button shirt with a collar? For the girls, I really wonder what possesses them to wear pants. It makes them look positively butch and terribly unladylike. The sooner we see them back in dresses and skirts only the better.
Actually, speaking of women, why do we let them vote? That suffragette movement was good for a laugh for a little while, but isn’t it time for the fairer sex to let the men get back to running things?
I’m also waiting for everyone to get sick of the television. Do you really need all the pictures up there on the screen to explain what is happening for you?
I’ll also go for body piercing, discreet earrings and in some circumstances a small diamond nose stud are, to me, quite attractive - but hoops through lips and and clusters of debris all over the ears make me feel physically sick.
I also reckon that designer labels showing on clothing is ‘the sign of the dork’
I mean, why do people want to walk around dressed as an advertizing billboard ?
I don’t much mind people driving Chelsea Tractors - eg: Range Rovers etc, they are safe in low speed collisions, useful for carting junk around and they can go over speed bumps which is one in the eye for those idiot planners that turn our towns into obstacle courses.
I also can’t stand those ridiculous long pointed high heeled shoes that some women wear, it makes them look like clowns, actually most female footwear seems to have been designed to cripple the wearer, the ‘designers’ would never get away with selling muck like that to men.
You know how your hair looks after you’ve been sleeping (and drooling and rubbing) on it all night?
Yeah, well some magazine editor somewhere decided that it would be totally bitchin to recreate that look in the men and women that grace their covers.
To be honest with you, I thought the whole bed head fad was over and done with four years ago (barring Courtney Love ).
It seems like the current trend for the young famous men is super-close cropped hair and for women is for long long extentions loosely curled. I actually like it, and it’s the first time in a long time that I can see someone on the red carpet and thing “I want her hair”
But the thing is, it usually takes your average mall about 18 months to catch up to Hollywood, and what causes people to start actually wearing this sort of crap isn’t that they saw some starlet wearing it, it’s that at some point, it’s all that’s available to buy! Oh no, my friend… I fear that we’re only at the beginning of a long fashion nightmare.
Oh and could freakin’ gauchos go away, right now please? I’d like to be able to buy some big girl pants that go all the way to the ankle. I went into Ann Taylor the other day, and the only long pants I saw* had pleats. PLEATS, people. When I can’t find something to wear to work at Ann Taylor, that’s a problem.
*Granted, this was on the sale rack. I have a firm policy against paying full price at the sort of stores where everything I see now will be on sale in a few weeks.
See, you’d think that,but there really are a lot of stupid people wearing those God-forsaken pants. Here’s my theory: the Gap, Old Navy, Lane Bryant, and Torrid are really the only stores for young, fat girls trying to be stylish. Fine. Except for the last 6 months, all they’ve been doing is pimping the God awful skinny pant. In fact, the Gap and Torrid cleared out over half of their stock of regular jeans in favor of skinny pants and leggings. Gap I can understand, I suppose, they sell size 0-- but skinny pants in a store that sells nothing below a size 16? SKINNY pants in a FAT store? The stupid burns. What’s stupider is the 250 lb girls that think they look good in a thing called skinny pants. Kate Moss only looks good in skinny pants when she hasn’t eaten that week. Bah.
And Uggs are out. Speaking as a 20 year old (such authority), I can tell you that someone would be roundly mocked for wearing Uggs. Any person who is attempting to be somewhat fashionable would not wear those shoes. In fact, the only people I know that do are really out of what’s in. The stores take advantage of folks like that- that’s why you see big displays of Uggs still.
