“The world sees you now: not as compassionate warriors, but as spoiled, entitled, reality-denying tyrants in yoga pants, wielding guilt and hysteria like switchblades.” —LHGrey on "X"
Sadly you are wrong. The plastic music created by many of the artists at these awards shows is equivalent to the fakeness of the award show. And most people listen to mainstream music.
It's like the news media. Products are pushed to push your thoughts in a certain direction.
The bullshit that qualifies for music today is nothing but mindless synthesized computer beats. The stuff is cheap, lacks all quality and creativity. They can produce it fast, easy and don't have to pay anyone for it and the idiots of the day gobble it up.
And the only way musicians can make money is touring, and C0VID killed the touring industry.
Live music-- and theater-- will start to suffer even more as the vaxx side effects kick in; most venues required staff to be vaxxed, and my guess is over 90% of the union that deals with those places are also vaxxed.
Yes. Many of the smaller venues around me that featured real music have closed. It used to be that bands toured to sell their album and merch. Now, they tour to sell tickets and make albums in order to tour with new material. One of my favorite bands used to be a 5 piece. The lead guitarist left around COVID and the singer had to learn the lead parts so they could continue as a three sometimes four piece because splitting it five ways wasn't working anymore.
I know someone who started doing concert production in the late 80s. Pay started at $10hr. Local arena in midwest. And now... almost 30 years later, pay starts at $17.
A couple of years ago, I happened upon a short interview with a Journalism major. While it wasn't the theme of the story, I was amused (and enlightened) by this: "I want to be a Journalist because I want to tell people what to think."
Pretty common in journalism. As is the litmus test of whether one went to "J-school." J-school grads are usually the products of well-off parents, and the degree when conferred by the likes of NYU, etc., is the golden ticket for becoming a full-time propagandist.
The only photos i saw were attendees wearing, literally plastic dresses and plastic black goo masks. They looked like they were wearing melted vinyl records on their bodies, a sign of the times.
That's an EXCELLENT question. I'm assuming it's because of their massive narcissism about themselves. When you dig a bit deeper, you find out most of these celebrities have an IQ of about 65 and the maturity of a 5 y.o. I grew up under the Hollywood sign in Hollywood hills, we had a few of these celebrities in our neighborhood.
They spend their lives pretending they are someone else. They have no clue who they themselves truly are. Self loathing is prevalent. They can't stay married for more than a year, are usually sodomites and perverts, are addicted to drugs and in and out of rehab and many of them die young from suicides or overdoses.
The dregs of society. The worst of the worst.
Humans are not designed to deal with being famous. It destroys their souls. Leaves them vaccuous and empty having no purpose in life other than to pad their own self serving egos.
For the same reason that anyone cares what guys who can hit major league pitching think about shaving kit or coffee. Whatever that is... reason? Don't need no steeenking reason!
At least back in the old days the tv commercials and print ads featuring pro baseball and football players were funny. Joe Namath in panty hose. Billy Martin and George Steinbrenner arguing "Tastes great! Less filling!" These ads were stupid, but at least they were entertaining.
Not only do their opinions matter, they are extremely influential as to shaping reality and culture. Their objectives are strategic - to destroy the cultural Christian ethos that undergirds the civilization these demonic wizards loath, all while making wild profits.
Because their opinions DO MATTER to a lot of mush brained Americans. They have millions of folllowers on their social media accounts. People follow them around and take their pictures. The media like "Breitbart" publish their opinions prominently on their website. I would estimate 50% of Breitbart headlines are quotes from celebrities railing against Trump, ICE and Americans in general.
I'm waiting for Billie Eilish and the rest to hand over their mansion keys to a 20 times great grandson of Pocahontas. Her son was only the governor of the Virginia colony so we can easily see how right from the beginning natives were marginalized./sarc
I don't even know who that is and the fact that this person has millions of followers is a clear indication of the sorry pathetic state of the general American.
I don't "follow" anybody. I have no social media accounts. I have a few authors I like to read such as JHK but don't "follow" any of them.
People that "follow" others are just that. Followers. Useless. Cannot think for themselves. Pathetic.
Kind of like grown men who wear a football jersey with another man's name on their back. Seriously. Do they hate themselves so much so that they wear another mans name on their own body?
Bringing Bad Bunny to play the Superbowl halftime is a big middle finger to most of America. Meanwhile Budweiser is doing all American schmalz with an eagle and a Clydesdale to encourage us forget the Bud Light middle finger.
Funny bit of info: A company by the name of Tribe, Inc. does the production design for the Super Bowl halftime. Their CEO is the one who designed the Obama set for his speech in Grant Park. HUGE Dem. Works for the DNC. Also a Khazarian.
Wow, that certainly creates quite a picture. I'm an old lady and used to have horrid PMS, I can't imagine adding LSD to that. Yikes! As if men don't have it bad enough when they have to endure us women with PMS.
I'm female. Most women should not be put in charge of anything outside of a schoolroom. Most women are emotion based, and a great with empathy in the classroom, in a hospital, in a nursing home. Elsewhere, where cold logic is required? Not so much.
And that's not even factoring in PMS.
It's just how the sexes are wired. Most men= logic. Most women= feelings
We knew this very basic, very obvious truth for thousands of years. Only in the last 100 years has it been “discredited” and forgotten. I wonder who is behind it and why? Hmmmm….
Exactly so. And yes, I wonder who is behind it as well. It all started with women's lib, but who got that started? IIRC, there were lots of butch lesbians behind the movement who started it. Some butch lesbians are fine, but many if not most have some real "issues" from my experience.
And now the "school marms" called "teachers" are weaponizing the classrooms and sending 5-year olds up to middle-schoolers out with signs to protest ICE.
100,000 LIKES for you!! What immediately comes to my mind is Karen Bass, mayor of L.A. - enough said. Also, the head Fire Commissioner of L.A., can't remember her name, who completely muddled up the Palos Verdes fire in L.A. last year. Both are butch lesbians, I can't even imagine having to deal with them on PMS, the poor men who had to work under those 2 lovelies direction. I've also come across a number of women who are mayors, govs etc. who are just as horrifying as Fire Commissioner & Karen Bass. btw, both of those last 2 are communist.
In summary, Karen Bass and L.A. County Fire commissioner are communists, butch lesbians with MASSIVE numerous axes to grind (mostly against men) who are deranged lunatics, on PMS and quite possibly have several other diagnoses - when you think about it, what could possibly go wrong??
WARNING: you may want to keep a barf bag close by, this woman is a real piece of work. She's been a communist all of her life apparently, be sure to check out the extremely long list of caucuses she's on. You won't believe what types of topics these caucuses are about. For example, there's one for Ethiopia, one for diabetes and one for "Quiet Skies" ????
I think I might have destroyed a few brain cells while reading it but husband and I did get some real laughs from it. It's a real gob-smacker.
I think you're on to something, I don't know ,if they've done a clinical trial yet ,but I think this needs to be examined, if for nothing else, just the entertainment value.
Here's the thing: we look at their antics from the outside at theater. But it's NOT theater. I suspect most really believe this stuff; it's their mind keeping them safe from... whatever.
Sort of like Stockholm Syndrome. Their central nervous system and their mind says "we've got to this to survive," and they don't even realize their dysfunction.
These award shows are nothing more than circle jerks for virtue-signaling degenerates. They truly have some gall. For example, Bad Bunny was lecturing us about what it means to be an American, but can barely speak English. What a joke.
Americans are tired of being lectured about morals by coke-addicts and pedophiles.
When was he great? A couple good songs and a lot of pontificating about things he knows nothing about. He's been a moron from the beginning. Ditto Springsteen, the fake everyman.
Amen, bruddah. I haven't watched one of these awards shows since Dances With Wolves won an Oscar for Best Picture. Don't miss it in the slightest degree.
I still have my quaint home stereo, components made in the '70s and '80s - and it sounds WAY better than any bluetooth speaker.
Also can still make music with my Fender Bandmaster Reverb vacuum tube guitar amplifier, made in Fullerton, California in 1978 - and all it has needed is its electrolytic capacitors replaced (they are wear items, so Leo Fender designed his amplifiers to have the capacitors easy to replace - I did it myself). Try replacing components in your bluetooth speaker.
I have a Rickenbacker tube amp. I've had several people offer me hundreds for it, but I continue to hang on to it. I bought it for $75 in the mid-90's.
I've played with lots of guys over here who have never even heard a real tube amp. They are used to cheapo solid-state amps or the hybrids with a 12AX7 in the preamp.
They are floored when the JCM-800 warms up and the first sounds leave the 1960ax cab with Greenbacks. :D
I have four guitar amps, all of them solid state but for one old Peavey 20 watt tube amp, used on the electric guitars and one of the solid states is also a Peavey Ecoustic for the acoustic instruments. They all have a niche.
"JCM" as in Jazz Chorus? OK, if you say so (kidding). Or as in Marshall? Each has their place, I spoze. Some like scotch some like tequila and some like both. Personally, I like the buttery overdrive of a Deluxe on 5-to-8. Marshall's got butter, too. And, yes, solid states will distort at volume.
I bought an old Marshall from a pawnshop back in the '70s because I wanted to sound like Hendrix. Discovered I hate, hate, hated the Marshall sound. Chacun a son gout.
What guitar amp builders don't realize is that "good" distortion occurs when the output transformer goes into saturation at the same level that the tubes do. So "boutique" amp builders use the "improved" Hammond output transformers and lose that sweet sound. Also, they use carefully matched output tubes, not knowing that an unbalanced feed to a transformer results in sweet second harmonic distortion.
When is the last time you talked to several other people about a movie you all saw? It seems like a foreign concept today. Hollywood has run themselves into the irrelevancy. As for the Grammy's, agree this political messaging is a test to see if you get to stay in the club. The music itself is not good. How much of it has any staying power at all? Will anyone listen to any of this 5 or 10 years from now? Maybe 5%.
My friends/acquaintances and I seem to watch movies from years past that we never got around to seeing or we are rewatching—usually on Netflix or similar. I don’t even know what movies are currently showing. I can’t remember the last time I was in a theater.
Same here, can't remember last time I was in a theatre and husband and I watch old movies, things we've seen before. We're old folks so have forgotten a lot of what we've seen before so watching again is like a new experience! LOL.
Predicted 20 years ago that high tech would destroy Hollywood due to the decline of creativity. It has destroyed song writing and CGI has destroyed cinematography. AI, watch You Tube is going to destroy what is left.
Hum perfect faces and boobs? Not sure about that, it's more like how ugly and uninventing can I make myself look: Billy...ish and Cyrus the Miley!!! Then the Bieb in underwear. What is attractive and genuine about this set? YUK!
Not only are they as ugly and disgusting as they can be but they make themselves even uglier.
Jelly Roll. Ever heard of this guy? I could shave my dog's ass and make him walk backwards and he'd look better than this putz. The guy can't sing. He weighs 450 pounds. Looks like a walking human hamper. Facial tats abound.
Post Malone. Ugly as ugly can be. Facial tats. Fake grills. Talentless voice. No ability.
Lizzo. Disgusting creature. Cellulose jiggling and twerking are her claims to fame.
Gone are the days when the famous people made efforts to be pretty people. The glitterati are gone. Ugliness, obesity and filth are all they have left. They are still followed by millions and millions of adoring fans. The WWE is obsessed with Jelly Roll and even put him in sports on Wrestlemania, their Super Bowl of wrestling.
No. Bands like Led Zeppelin were simply ripping off black blues players. That is true. I'm not a fan of British Invasion blues. It's pretty soulless. Eric Clapton is a technically-excellent guitar player, but his playing has no feeling or soul. Jerry Reed was 10x the player that Clapton is.
You are ignoring the influence of Celtic music on music from Appalachia, nee bluegrass and country music, as well as Western music. Plus, many of the early blues players were white, which is ignored today. Jimmie Rodgers is as influential to both country and blues music as anyone. We can recognize the influence of black musicians on American music without overstating it.
The prediction was easy to make, as autotuning and recording software had already made recorded music artificially perfect. AI is just the next escalation: software stealing lyrics and music played by humans to create something that appears "original."
I can assure you however, that when one plays a live show, people still react to hearing a group of musicians play--flaws and all. On the last record I played on, we purposefully did all the takes live and didn't polish anything with software.
100%. My band of old old geezers still pulls good crowds. Live music is better bumper stickers should be issued. And no, southern man don’t need him around anyhow, still. 😎
When my wife and I get together with friends the topic of “what movies have you seen, or what movies are you looking forward to” used to be discussed every time. I literally can’t remember the last time our group had that discussion. Now we just lament the fact that there’s very little on streaming that is worth watching
There is no staying power. One hit wonders abound. Talentless hacks who can't play an instrument or hold a tune without the assistance of autotune software.
This is what happens when the raving mad, man-hating bull dyke, Randy Weingarten and her Bolshevik-Marxist-Demo-Commie Teachers Union takes over the "education" of our children.
I blame 99% of the problems this country faces today with the fact that the kids don't know how to read. We pay more in taxes per pupil than any country on earth, yet our kids come out of 8th grade not knowing how to sound out letters and words (phonics) or basic math that I can do in my head.
You see those little freaks like Billie Eilish and some of the others? These are young people who grew up in homes with no books, just screens. They will never know the joy of a boring summer day, sitting outside with a good book and nothing to do but read. Or, as we are now in this part of the world, being snowed in and enjoying the time spent reading all sorts of novels.
Just look at that Freak Show last night- how pathetic those young people are - they are lost souls who have a lot of money that they don't even know how to use. What are they going to do- get more tattoos or badly fitting, ugly, expensive clothes that aren't nearly as nice as what the average office workers used to wear at the beginning of this century.
But back to the Teachers Union devils. They have destroyed our public schools to the point that they are dangerous for children and young people. The teachers are there to promote their Satanic agenda of body mutilation, baby killing and hate. Most of them belong in prison instead of making their 6-figure salaries and benefits we tax - slaves can only dream of. I am glad that most of my grand kids were home schooled to some degree.
The ceremony last night should have been dedicated to Moloch right from the get go to clear up any doubts that people might have as to what it was all about.
My understanding (anecdotal, from friends with GenX children and GenZ grandchildren), is that albums + stereos + speakers are back. It's a thing. Even (13? 15?) years ago, when living in DC, I went to album/CD swapmeets (at the Black Cat club for anyone interested) where albums were selling like hot cakes, which surprised me because I had divested in the 90s, having gotten tired of shlepping it all every move. But I find this change very encouraging. Pompous asses like B. Springstein and N. Young may actually be driving this rebellion.
Both my adults (millenials) children have gone to turntables and albums. They are also collecting VHS tapes films and ask that we donate them any vinyls and tapes we still have. The old is new again and of such better quality. We of course had not discarded any of these components for their simple quality. So your comment might not be so anecdotal in the end.
I worked in a thrift store in 2015. I was shocked at how many people came in specifically for albums and old VCR tapes. This retro move has been happening under the radar for a while.
"You might see how that would entice an awful lot of people to check-out of reality altogether"
That is what Harari told us the plan is. Drugs and video games will be used to pacify the useless eaters, who, of course, will then be offed by a mandatory vaccine at some point.
I have an 11-year-old son and see how effective the digital assault is. We try to balance what he can and cannot do/have in this regard, but nearly all of his friends spend half their day in front of a screen.
What I also notice is that when you get them excited about real things (in our case, playing rock music together), you see how quickly they can snap out of it. Nothing can replace the person-to-person connection, and the act of doing something in the real world.
That said, lots of kids are having their brains molded and experiences controlled so that they never really know what that feels like.
Do you see any possible solution? I guess removing your kids from the public education system would help somewhat, but I don’t think that’s a complete solution to the problem.
Europe was essentially finished after the trauma of World War 1. It sailed on, like a torpedoed ship that was still afloat, into World War 2, which put the final torpedoes into it. It’s now sinking beneath the surface and will soon be on the ocean floor, next to the Titanic.
Socialists always enlist the "arts" to glorify their dictatorial wishes. Art and music cease being about freedom, but are simply a tool of propaganda. It is important to remember that Hitler was a failed artist. The hard fact is that most artists and musicians, like most football and baseball players, never make it to the "big leagues," but plod along in relative poverty. The wealth excess of the few who do manage to make it to the "top", usually because they are "groomed" by those leftist corporatist record labels and movie companies, get obscenely wealthy--these days not from having actual talent, but by being continually promoted by clever marketing. No surprise, then, that so many "artists" are leftist hacks--the only ones "grooming" them are other leftist hacks.
The independent music scene is allowing thousands of actually talented artists and musicians, to get a sliver of the wealth pie--using outlets like YouTube, Rumble, etc.--by self-recording and self-producing their product. And a lot of those have other career "gigs" to help pay the bills. And, in the case of music, their talent completely eclipses the manufactured "talent" of those clowns getting clown awards on the Grammy stage. Nowhere has the leftist degradation of music as an art been so dramatic as in the black music scene. In the 70+ years of the leftist welfare state, the U.S. has gone from producing some of the best black musicians in history--Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Oscar Peterson, etc., etc.--to producing little more than talentless reciters of barely musical grunts of thumping bass and elementary school poetry perverted by using adult expletives. Those earlier black artists--still in the day of actual racial discrimination--proved that they had true artistic talent as good or better than white musicians. 70+ years of the leftist welfare state destroying the nuclear black family has destroyed all of that. Oh, and to the comment that many of those earlier black musicians suffered from drug addiction--often to heroin--they did, usually directly marketed to them by white Mafiosi, who just happened to also be racist Democrats. Just another way for white Democrats to keep blacks poor and dependent. Fancy that.
Well said. A fine assessment of the music biz. I spent 30 years in radio as a disc jockey, AM/FM all formats. There is no longer talent like Oscar Peterson or Duke Ellington. The Grammy show's hour-long tribute to Rap music was like finger nails on a chalk board. Then I realized music albums are no longer available on CDs or Cassette tapes. The public pays for an album and is forced to load it to a hard drive or listen on their phone. Bye Bye American Pie....the Day that Music Died.
IMO rap was part of a deliberate plan to destroy and control the black culture which was assimilating too well w white culture. Not enough division going on there. Some of the best black musicians were produced and many incredible black vocalists including those from the Doo Wop years. These talentless morons today actually think that 'sampling' music lifted from a better time will somehow give them credibility as an artist. No, the only credit you get for that is called stealing.
Youngish women are mostly angry and dissatisfied with their choices and their lives; they wanted their degrees, their big jobs, their command like generals, and their print on everything, and they got it except that it's not fulfilling. To feel better, they seek to destroy all that is conventional around them. Motherhood is now bestowed on dogs and cats, and any sexual status is encouraged. Fantasies that will be costly while they throw away their lives.
They were sold a lie. Their mothers probably had to work, be a wife and a mother. They were sold a lie as well.
Sometimes it takes a while to realize that you'vebeen sold a lie and to reject it. I feel sorry for them, and for the decent young guys out there who have no potential mates.
👍👍 In short, award shows such as the Grammys have turned into boring freak shows. Normal people have no interest in watching these nitwits. 🤷♂️🤷♂️
I'd wager that the majority of Grammy attendees are taking mood "stabilizing" medications.
Sadly you are wrong. The plastic music created by many of the artists at these awards shows is equivalent to the fakeness of the award show. And most people listen to mainstream music.
It's like the news media. Products are pushed to push your thoughts in a certain direction.
The bullshit that qualifies for music today is nothing but mindless synthesized computer beats. The stuff is cheap, lacks all quality and creativity. They can produce it fast, easy and don't have to pay anyone for it and the idiots of the day gobble it up.
And, increasingly, its just being created with AI.
And the only way musicians can make money is touring, and C0VID killed the touring industry.
Live music-- and theater-- will start to suffer even more as the vaxx side effects kick in; most venues required staff to be vaxxed, and my guess is over 90% of the union that deals with those places are also vaxxed.
Yes. Many of the smaller venues around me that featured real music have closed. It used to be that bands toured to sell their album and merch. Now, they tour to sell tickets and make albums in order to tour with new material. One of my favorite bands used to be a 5 piece. The lead guitarist left around COVID and the singer had to learn the lead parts so they could continue as a three sometimes four piece because splitting it five ways wasn't working anymore.
I know someone who started doing concert production in the late 80s. Pay started at $10hr. Local arena in midwest. And now... almost 30 years later, pay starts at $17.
I couldn’t name one artist or song up for an award. The whole Grammy thing is irrelevant.
A couple of years ago, I happened upon a short interview with a Journalism major. While it wasn't the theme of the story, I was amused (and enlightened) by this: "I want to be a Journalist because I want to tell people what to think."
Pretty common in journalism. As is the litmus test of whether one went to "J-school." J-school grads are usually the products of well-off parents, and the degree when conferred by the likes of NYU, etc., is the golden ticket for becoming a full-time propagandist.
The only photos i saw were attendees wearing, literally plastic dresses and plastic black goo masks. They looked like they were wearing melted vinyl records on their bodies, a sign of the times.
What I have never understood...to this very day...Is why members of Hollywood think that their opinions matter???
Because the denizens of ship USA are celebrity nuts. Most of these celebs make Joe Average look like Einstein.
That's an EXCELLENT question. I'm assuming it's because of their massive narcissism about themselves. When you dig a bit deeper, you find out most of these celebrities have an IQ of about 65 and the maturity of a 5 y.o. I grew up under the Hollywood sign in Hollywood hills, we had a few of these celebrities in our neighborhood.
They are also mostly deeply troubled people, many of whom were abused as children.
They spend their lives pretending they are someone else. They have no clue who they themselves truly are. Self loathing is prevalent. They can't stay married for more than a year, are usually sodomites and perverts, are addicted to drugs and in and out of rehab and many of them die young from suicides or overdoses.
The dregs of society. The worst of the worst.
Humans are not designed to deal with being famous. It destroys their souls. Leaves them vaccuous and empty having no purpose in life other than to pad their own self serving egos.
Politicians are the worst of the worst, but the entertainment industry is a close second worst of the worst?
Actually, these days the politicians are just bad actors, so they could both be the worst of the worst of the same group.
Politicians are certainly more criminal.
I think you meant to say that humans *aren't* designed to deal with being famous.
Correct. Thanks.
For the same reason that anyone cares what guys who can hit major league pitching think about shaving kit or coffee. Whatever that is... reason? Don't need no steeenking reason!
At least back in the old days the tv commercials and print ads featuring pro baseball and football players were funny. Joe Namath in panty hose. Billy Martin and George Steinbrenner arguing "Tastes great! Less filling!" These ads were stupid, but at least they were entertaining.
Not only do their opinions matter, they are extremely influential as to shaping reality and culture. Their objectives are strategic - to destroy the cultural Christian ethos that undergirds the civilization these demonic wizards loath, all while making wild profits.
Taylor Swifts approves your message.
"Taylor Swift." She's named after two breakfast sausage brands.
Her songs are mostly poppy crap, but at least she writes them.
Doubtful. And all kinds of stuff goes on in the studio.
Doubtful about what?
Because their opinions DO MATTER to a lot of mush brained Americans. They have millions of folllowers on their social media accounts. People follow them around and take their pictures. The media like "Breitbart" publish their opinions prominently on their website. I would estimate 50% of Breitbart headlines are quotes from celebrities railing against Trump, ICE and Americans in general.
Ten million dimwits will hang on Billie Eilish's every word and vote accordingly.
I'm waiting for Billie Eilish and the rest to hand over their mansion keys to a 20 times great grandson of Pocahontas. Her son was only the governor of the Virginia colony so we can easily see how right from the beginning natives were marginalized./sarc
I don't even know who that is and the fact that this person has millions of followers is a clear indication of the sorry pathetic state of the general American.
I don't "follow" anybody. I have no social media accounts. I have a few authors I like to read such as JHK but don't "follow" any of them.
People that "follow" others are just that. Followers. Useless. Cannot think for themselves. Pathetic.
Kind of like grown men who wear a football jersey with another man's name on their back. Seriously. Do they hate themselves so much so that they wear another mans name on their own body?
Because they're narcissists surrounded by sycophants?
Bringing Bad Bunny to play the Superbowl halftime is a big middle finger to most of America. Meanwhile Budweiser is doing all American schmalz with an eagle and a Clydesdale to encourage us forget the Bud Light middle finger.
Why I won't watch Superbowl.
Me either. Dumped the NFL years ago thanks to the injection of politics into football. Goodell is a complete & total douche.
Same here.
I don't follow any "sport" that has a pre-defined/determined political bent.
Who's playing this year, anyway?
Didn't he just say that some freak named Bad Bunny was playing there.
Haven't a clue.
not KC
The very fact that a sodomite fudge packing moron named "Bad Bunny" is famous says a lot about the depravity of our society.
Funny bit of info: A company by the name of Tribe, Inc. does the production design for the Super Bowl halftime. Their CEO is the one who designed the Obama set for his speech in Grant Park. HUGE Dem. Works for the DNC. Also a Khazarian.
"...has been taken over by women (and womanish men) acting out Cluster-B psychodrama fantasies..."
It's like treating PMS with LSD.
That was a perfect analysis by JHK.
And David “JC Penny
Yes.
Wow, that certainly creates quite a picture. I'm an old lady and used to have horrid PMS, I can't imagine adding LSD to that. Yikes! As if men don't have it bad enough when they have to endure us women with PMS.
A great many women have horrid PMS. So let's put them in charge of things, that'll work out great! /s/
I'm female. Most women should not be put in charge of anything outside of a schoolroom. Most women are emotion based, and a great with empathy in the classroom, in a hospital, in a nursing home. Elsewhere, where cold logic is required? Not so much.
And that's not even factoring in PMS.
It's just how the sexes are wired. Most men= logic. Most women= feelings
We knew this very basic, very obvious truth for thousands of years. Only in the last 100 years has it been “discredited” and forgotten. I wonder who is behind it and why? Hmmmm….
Exactly so. And yes, I wonder who is behind it as well. It all started with women's lib, but who got that started? IIRC, there were lots of butch lesbians behind the movement who started it. Some butch lesbians are fine, but many if not most have some real "issues" from my experience.
And now the "school marms" called "teachers" are weaponizing the classrooms and sending 5-year olds up to middle-schoolers out with signs to protest ICE.
(smh)
100,000 LIKES for you!! What immediately comes to my mind is Karen Bass, mayor of L.A. - enough said. Also, the head Fire Commissioner of L.A., can't remember her name, who completely muddled up the Palos Verdes fire in L.A. last year. Both are butch lesbians, I can't even imagine having to deal with them on PMS, the poor men who had to work under those 2 lovelies direction. I've also come across a number of women who are mayors, govs etc. who are just as horrifying as Fire Commissioner & Karen Bass. btw, both of those last 2 are communist.
In summary, Karen Bass and L.A. County Fire commissioner are communists, butch lesbians with MASSIVE numerous axes to grind (mostly against men) who are deranged lunatics, on PMS and quite possibly have several other diagnoses - when you think about it, what could possibly go wrong??
I say all of this as a woman myself.
Karen "It's Pat!" Bass
Ha ha. Your SNL reference to ambiguous "Pat" seems to be lost here. But I remember that skit. Totally.
I must have missed something - her full name is Karen Ruth Bass, I looked it up on wiki. I'm wondering where "Pat" came from?
Here's the article on wiki, in case you're interested:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Bass
WARNING: you may want to keep a barf bag close by, this woman is a real piece of work. She's been a communist all of her life apparently, be sure to check out the extremely long list of caucuses she's on. You won't believe what types of topics these caucuses are about. For example, there's one for Ethiopia, one for diabetes and one for "Quiet Skies" ????
I think I might have destroyed a few brain cells while reading it but husband and I did get some real laughs from it. It's a real gob-smacker.
Enjoy!
Guess you never watched Saturday Night Live in the early 1990s… google “It’s Pat” and you’ll understand my reference.
I think you're on to something, I don't know ,if they've done a clinical trial yet ,but I think this needs to be examined, if for nothing else, just the entertainment value.
Here's the thing: we look at their antics from the outside at theater. But it's NOT theater. I suspect most really believe this stuff; it's their mind keeping them safe from... whatever.
Sort of like Stockholm Syndrome. Their central nervous system and their mind says "we've got to this to survive," and they don't even realize their dysfunction.
Permanent Menstrual Syndrome? Actually, if we could get some good quality acid, it might be the perfect treatment if we could control the messaging.
Catchy analogy.
lol!
These award shows are nothing more than circle jerks for virtue-signaling degenerates. They truly have some gall. For example, Bad Bunny was lecturing us about what it means to be an American, but can barely speak English. What a joke.
Americans are tired of being lectured about morals by coke-addicts and pedophiles.
And virtue signaling old narcissists whose shelf life long expired.
Was that a reference to Bobby DiNiro?
Add Springsteen to that list. And Neil Young, etc.
Kneel Young.
It makes sense that DeNiro is pedobear type!
Take your pick!
DeNiro is a caricature of himself anymore; he shows up & does the Deniro schtick & that’s all he can do.
“You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? There’s only the two of us here.”
Like the once great Neil Young.
When was he great? A couple good songs and a lot of pontificating about things he knows nothing about. He's been a moron from the beginning. Ditto Springsteen, the fake everyman.
This is a fun article on Neil Young if you haven't read it yet:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/neil-young-encounters-most-boomer-leftist-problem-imaginable
Thanks.
Amen, bruddah. I haven't watched one of these awards shows since Dances With Wolves won an Oscar for Best Picture. Don't miss it in the slightest degree.
I still have my quaint home stereo, components made in the '70s and '80s - and it sounds WAY better than any bluetooth speaker.
Also can still make music with my Fender Bandmaster Reverb vacuum tube guitar amplifier, made in Fullerton, California in 1978 - and all it has needed is its electrolytic capacitors replaced (they are wear items, so Leo Fender designed his amplifiers to have the capacitors easy to replace - I did it myself). Try replacing components in your bluetooth speaker.
I have a Rickenbacker tube amp. I've had several people offer me hundreds for it, but I continue to hang on to it. I bought it for $75 in the mid-90's.
A good tube amp goes for thousands today, not hundreds.
I have a basement full of them and they are going to be like Rolexes at some point.
Or cat boxes when the grid goes down. I'm so stupid I threw away a working Kalamazoo tube amp when I got my first solid state back in the late '70s.
I've played with lots of guys over here who have never even heard a real tube amp. They are used to cheapo solid-state amps or the hybrids with a 12AX7 in the preamp.
They are floored when the JCM-800 warms up and the first sounds leave the 1960ax cab with Greenbacks. :D
I have four guitar amps, all of them solid state but for one old Peavey 20 watt tube amp, used on the electric guitars and one of the solid states is also a Peavey Ecoustic for the acoustic instruments. They all have a niche.
"JCM" as in Jazz Chorus? OK, if you say so (kidding). Or as in Marshall? Each has their place, I spoze. Some like scotch some like tequila and some like both. Personally, I like the buttery overdrive of a Deluxe on 5-to-8. Marshall's got butter, too. And, yes, solid states will distort at volume.
I should have written JMP there; it was the precursor to the 2203/4 JCM-800s.
An overdriven (vintage) JCM-800 with a proper overdrive like a Diamond or vintage Tubescreamer is unmatched. Absolute thunder.
Have my Rickenbacker 325c64 plugged into a Vox British-made AC30; yeah - I know: Beatles freak! ;<)
I have the wall of sound, but it's not "quaint." Occasionally registers as epicenter on the Richter....
I’m stuck on SiriusXM Radio listening to the 70’s Channel and Smokey’s Soul Town.
Get those fruity clean tones out of here and get yourself a JMP or JCM-800 :D
Wait. If there’s a better guitar sound than a ‘60’s Deluxe Reverb I want to know about it. Wait: there isn’t.
If you like clean tones, I would say an old AC-30 is just as good. Lots of Hi-Watts, too. Not sure anything has more headroom than a big Hi-Watt.
The guitar/pickups you use will also have a major effect.
I've played a couple of AC30's that were sublime! My Deluxe only starts to sound right above 4, then it's glory hallelujah ;-)
I bought an old Marshall from a pawnshop back in the '70s because I wanted to sound like Hendrix. Discovered I hate, hate, hated the Marshall sound. Chacun a son gout.
No self-respecting guitarist would ever utter these words.
Well, I'm sort of a self-loathing guitarist, since I got into punk in '78 and really never left.
Punks typically love Marshall. I'm largely in that camp myself, with some metal and classic rock thrown in.
What guitar amp builders don't realize is that "good" distortion occurs when the output transformer goes into saturation at the same level that the tubes do. So "boutique" amp builders use the "improved" Hammond output transformers and lose that sweet sound. Also, they use carefully matched output tubes, not knowing that an unbalanced feed to a transformer results in sweet second harmonic distortion.
I have a 1974 Pioneer 1010 hundred watt receiver--the first. Sounds great. Sucks a lot of energy though, and I can't lift it (50 pounds) anymore.
My husband-- who is about to retire-- has the 4' speakers.
Me, too. I listen to an old Kenwood receiver hooked up to a pair of Boston Acoustics.
As it turned out, after Littlefeather died, her family came out and said she wasn’t actually Native American at all. So it was fake all the way down!
Yep, "Littlefeather" turned out to be another member of the Pretendian tribe.
I wonder if she was in the same tribe as Elizabeth Warren?
The Idonknow tribe. Or the Imanidiot tribe?
Or that fake Indian that got into it with the high school kid in DC.
Like The Democrat and the UniParty Fake Tribes we have now.
What a surprise—not.
Fake, just like everything else in Hollywood.
I’ve yet to watch a Grammy. Stopped watching the Oscars a few decades ago.
yeah, I do not think I have ever watched an awards show, ever.
When is the last time you talked to several other people about a movie you all saw? It seems like a foreign concept today. Hollywood has run themselves into the irrelevancy. As for the Grammy's, agree this political messaging is a test to see if you get to stay in the club. The music itself is not good. How much of it has any staying power at all? Will anyone listen to any of this 5 or 10 years from now? Maybe 5%.
My friends/acquaintances and I seem to watch movies from years past that we never got around to seeing or we are rewatching—usually on Netflix or similar. I don’t even know what movies are currently showing. I can’t remember the last time I was in a theater.
Same here, can't remember last time I was in a theatre and husband and I watch old movies, things we've seen before. We're old folks so have forgotten a lot of what we've seen before so watching again is like a new experience! LOL.
I go to a movie when I have to be away from home for X hours for Y reason. Saw Anaconda recently. It was... silly.
Good to know I'm not the only one who's forgotten everything!
Netflix LOL. Puhleez
Predicted 20 years ago that high tech would destroy Hollywood due to the decline of creativity. It has destroyed song writing and CGI has destroyed cinematography. AI, watch You Tube is going to destroy what is left.
Perfect faces and big boobs, ya hoo.
Hum perfect faces and boobs? Not sure about that, it's more like how ugly and uninventing can I make myself look: Billy...ish and Cyrus the Miley!!! Then the Bieb in underwear. What is attractive and genuine about this set? YUK!
Not only are they as ugly and disgusting as they can be but they make themselves even uglier.
Jelly Roll. Ever heard of this guy? I could shave my dog's ass and make him walk backwards and he'd look better than this putz. The guy can't sing. He weighs 450 pounds. Looks like a walking human hamper. Facial tats abound.
Post Malone. Ugly as ugly can be. Facial tats. Fake grills. Talentless voice. No ability.
Lizzo. Disgusting creature. Cellulose jiggling and twerking are her claims to fame.
Gone are the days when the famous people made efforts to be pretty people. The glitterati are gone. Ugliness, obesity and filth are all they have left. They are still followed by millions and millions of adoring fans. The WWE is obsessed with Jelly Roll and even put him in sports on Wrestlemania, their Super Bowl of wrestling.
"high tech would destroy Hollywood due to the decline of creativity."
The intentional destruction of white culture destroyed creativity.
Some of the greatest rock music ever created came about because of some guitar playing by some illiterate black dudes in the 20s and 30s.
Partially true, but not the whole story.
Of course it isn't the whole story.
The story is that some illiterate black dudes created an entirely new category of music that went on to inspire millions of people to build on it.
What's your version? That everyone involved was white?
No. Bands like Led Zeppelin were simply ripping off black blues players. That is true. I'm not a fan of British Invasion blues. It's pretty soulless. Eric Clapton is a technically-excellent guitar player, but his playing has no feeling or soul. Jerry Reed was 10x the player that Clapton is.
You are ignoring the influence of Celtic music on music from Appalachia, nee bluegrass and country music, as well as Western music. Plus, many of the early blues players were white, which is ignored today. Jimmie Rodgers is as influential to both country and blues music as anyone. We can recognize the influence of black musicians on American music without overstating it.
The prediction was easy to make, as autotuning and recording software had already made recorded music artificially perfect. AI is just the next escalation: software stealing lyrics and music played by humans to create something that appears "original."
I can assure you however, that when one plays a live show, people still react to hearing a group of musicians play--flaws and all. On the last record I played on, we purposefully did all the takes live and didn't polish anything with software.
100%. My band of old old geezers still pulls good crowds. Live music is better bumper stickers should be issued. And no, southern man don’t need him around anyhow, still. 😎
Nice.
And now AI is getting rid of writing.
When my wife and I get together with friends the topic of “what movies have you seen, or what movies are you looking forward to” used to be discussed every time. I literally can’t remember the last time our group had that discussion. Now we just lament the fact that there’s very little on streaming that is worth watching
There is a great turning.
There is no staying power. One hit wonders abound. Talentless hacks who can't play an instrument or hold a tune without the assistance of autotune software.
This is what happens when the raving mad, man-hating bull dyke, Randy Weingarten and her Bolshevik-Marxist-Demo-Commie Teachers Union takes over the "education" of our children.
I blame 99% of the problems this country faces today with the fact that the kids don't know how to read. We pay more in taxes per pupil than any country on earth, yet our kids come out of 8th grade not knowing how to sound out letters and words (phonics) or basic math that I can do in my head.
You see those little freaks like Billie Eilish and some of the others? These are young people who grew up in homes with no books, just screens. They will never know the joy of a boring summer day, sitting outside with a good book and nothing to do but read. Or, as we are now in this part of the world, being snowed in and enjoying the time spent reading all sorts of novels.
Just look at that Freak Show last night- how pathetic those young people are - they are lost souls who have a lot of money that they don't even know how to use. What are they going to do- get more tattoos or badly fitting, ugly, expensive clothes that aren't nearly as nice as what the average office workers used to wear at the beginning of this century.
But back to the Teachers Union devils. They have destroyed our public schools to the point that they are dangerous for children and young people. The teachers are there to promote their Satanic agenda of body mutilation, baby killing and hate. Most of them belong in prison instead of making their 6-figure salaries and benefits we tax - slaves can only dream of. I am glad that most of my grand kids were home schooled to some degree.
The ceremony last night should have been dedicated to Moloch right from the get go to clear up any doubts that people might have as to what it was all about.
This whole country needs an exorcism.
Or an enema. Plus 100 on Weingarten and our "educational" system.
Their ship is sinking like a stone and they just keep drilling holes.
Works for me!
My understanding (anecdotal, from friends with GenX children and GenZ grandchildren), is that albums + stereos + speakers are back. It's a thing. Even (13? 15?) years ago, when living in DC, I went to album/CD swapmeets (at the Black Cat club for anyone interested) where albums were selling like hot cakes, which surprised me because I had divested in the 90s, having gotten tired of shlepping it all every move. But I find this change very encouraging. Pompous asses like B. Springstein and N. Young may actually be driving this rebellion.
Both my adults (millenials) children have gone to turntables and albums. They are also collecting VHS tapes films and ask that we donate them any vinyls and tapes we still have. The old is new again and of such better quality. We of course had not discarded any of these components for their simple quality. So your comment might not be so anecdotal in the end.
I worked in a thrift store in 2015. I was shocked at how many people came in specifically for albums and old VCR tapes. This retro move has been happening under the radar for a while.
"You might see how that would entice an awful lot of people to check-out of reality altogether"
That is what Harari told us the plan is. Drugs and video games will be used to pacify the useless eaters, who, of course, will then be offed by a mandatory vaccine at some point.
I have an 11-year-old son and see how effective the digital assault is. We try to balance what he can and cannot do/have in this regard, but nearly all of his friends spend half their day in front of a screen.
What I also notice is that when you get them excited about real things (in our case, playing rock music together), you see how quickly they can snap out of it. Nothing can replace the person-to-person connection, and the act of doing something in the real world.
That said, lots of kids are having their brains molded and experiences controlled so that they never really know what that feels like.
Do you see any possible solution? I guess removing your kids from the public education system would help somewhat, but I don’t think that’s a complete solution to the problem.
I’d start with demonstrating The Circle of Life (eating what you hunt and fish and grow yourself). Kids love nature. It’s natural 😎 to them.
You can't do that here in Germany.
I spend a lot of time talking to him about learning to think for himself, and that a lot of what he is going to learn is not necessarily true.
Germany? Sorry to hear that.
Some things were actually much better here than in the States when I moved nearly 20 years ago.
Europe is going downhill fast, however.
Europe was essentially finished after the trauma of World War 1. It sailed on, like a torpedoed ship that was still afloat, into World War 2, which put the final torpedoes into it. It’s now sinking beneath the surface and will soon be on the ocean floor, next to the Titanic.
Socialists always enlist the "arts" to glorify their dictatorial wishes. Art and music cease being about freedom, but are simply a tool of propaganda. It is important to remember that Hitler was a failed artist. The hard fact is that most artists and musicians, like most football and baseball players, never make it to the "big leagues," but plod along in relative poverty. The wealth excess of the few who do manage to make it to the "top", usually because they are "groomed" by those leftist corporatist record labels and movie companies, get obscenely wealthy--these days not from having actual talent, but by being continually promoted by clever marketing. No surprise, then, that so many "artists" are leftist hacks--the only ones "grooming" them are other leftist hacks.
The independent music scene is allowing thousands of actually talented artists and musicians, to get a sliver of the wealth pie--using outlets like YouTube, Rumble, etc.--by self-recording and self-producing their product. And a lot of those have other career "gigs" to help pay the bills. And, in the case of music, their talent completely eclipses the manufactured "talent" of those clowns getting clown awards on the Grammy stage. Nowhere has the leftist degradation of music as an art been so dramatic as in the black music scene. In the 70+ years of the leftist welfare state, the U.S. has gone from producing some of the best black musicians in history--Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Oscar Peterson, etc., etc.--to producing little more than talentless reciters of barely musical grunts of thumping bass and elementary school poetry perverted by using adult expletives. Those earlier black artists--still in the day of actual racial discrimination--proved that they had true artistic talent as good or better than white musicians. 70+ years of the leftist welfare state destroying the nuclear black family has destroyed all of that. Oh, and to the comment that many of those earlier black musicians suffered from drug addiction--often to heroin--they did, usually directly marketed to them by white Mafiosi, who just happened to also be racist Democrats. Just another way for white Democrats to keep blacks poor and dependent. Fancy that.
Well said. A fine assessment of the music biz. I spent 30 years in radio as a disc jockey, AM/FM all formats. There is no longer talent like Oscar Peterson or Duke Ellington. The Grammy show's hour-long tribute to Rap music was like finger nails on a chalk board. Then I realized music albums are no longer available on CDs or Cassette tapes. The public pays for an album and is forced to load it to a hard drive or listen on their phone. Bye Bye American Pie....the Day that Music Died.
IMO rap was part of a deliberate plan to destroy and control the black culture which was assimilating too well w white culture. Not enough division going on there. Some of the best black musicians were produced and many incredible black vocalists including those from the Doo Wop years. These talentless morons today actually think that 'sampling' music lifted from a better time will somehow give them credibility as an artist. No, the only credit you get for that is called stealing.
"White" mafiosi. They might've appeared white...
Circular back slapping while wearing better than thou self-made halos.
And sometimes only little more than that
True that.
Youngish women are mostly angry and dissatisfied with their choices and their lives; they wanted their degrees, their big jobs, their command like generals, and their print on everything, and they got it except that it's not fulfilling. To feel better, they seek to destroy all that is conventional around them. Motherhood is now bestowed on dogs and cats, and any sexual status is encouraged. Fantasies that will be costly while they throw away their lives.
They were sold a lie. Their mothers probably had to work, be a wife and a mother. They were sold a lie as well.
Sometimes it takes a while to realize that you'vebeen sold a lie and to reject it. I feel sorry for them, and for the decent young guys out there who have no potential mates.