The Official Fangirl Rant Livejournal

HANG ON.
YT DECIDED TO TAKE A CRAP.

Okay, so I've been watching these adorable guys on Youtube for a while now, but this morning I was looking through my YouTube subbies and they had posted this new video, and I am in love with it.

It's their cover of "Falling Slowly" from the movie "Once"
Enjoy.

Trent Reznor is officially the coolest musician alive.

The new Nine Inch Nails album, The Slip is online for download, completely free. How awesome is that?

For the full story, go here.

"In a post on the band’s Web site, www.nin.com, the band’s leader, Trent Reznor, said, “Thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years — this one’s on me.” "

I am downloading mine as I type. *nods*

The band even encourages remixes, and sharing with friends, basically, pirate it all you want. I've never been a super NIN fan, but I've always liked them pretty well, but my respect for them as a band has gone way up. Not because I'm cheap (which I kind of am) but because it's proof that they aren't selfish money-driven bastards, which unfortunately, some bands are. 

Just because this is so awesome, I'll definately buy the physical version that is released in July. Especially the vynil. Because Vynil is win.

Hey kids, MK here, I just had a conversation with fellow Fangirl Megan, about this whole Miley Cyrus controversy, and why it shouldn't be so damned controversial in the first place.

If you don't know what the hell I'm talking about, you clearly don't watch the news ever. Google Miley Cyrus, and it'll be in the news stories.

The conversation is below in grey, red and purple, my additional thoughts are in black.

Megan says:I am so sick of the Miley Cyrus picture "controversy"
Megan says:At this point, I'm like, "Who the fuck cares?!:
MK says:The only one they should be talking abotut is maybe the one with her dad.
Megan says:Yeah
Megan says:I heard about that one
MK says:it was a little bit .... eeehh, but the sheet one was so not a big deal
Megan says:Nudity's bad for Disney, but apprently incest is ok
MK says:oh thats awful (There was one pic with her dad, where she's like leaning on his lap, and they both have pretty blank expressions and everyone is all 'zomg that is so sexual and wrong' but to me, they both just look kind of bored. Look at it here: http://gothamist.com/attachments/j…)
MK says:I want to rant about it
Megan says:Lol
Megan says:XD
MK says:but it's a media rant
MK says:Like.. leave the kid alone, its a fucking picture.
Megan says:You should put what I said in the rant XD
Megan says:Lol
MK says: Steven pointed out yesterday on the sauce, that if she went to an awards show and wore a nice backless dress, it would show more that you see in that picture.
Megan says:Exactly!
MK says:Its not like shes flashing her junk and posing for playboy
MK says:Crimany
Megan says:Haha
MK says: She's already come out and said she was "embarassed" and stuff, but they just wont leave it alone
MK says:Let's continue to beat that horse why don't we?
Megan says:Lol
Megan says:Why should she be embarrassed?
Megan says:If she was that embarrassed about it, then she wouldn't have done it in the first place.
MK says:It was something like "I was taking part in something I thought to be really artistic, and now that i see them I'm embarassed"
MK says:But it's her effing SHOULDER!
Megan says:Yep
MK says:Last time I checked, Shoulders were not considered private sexual parts.
Megan says:If this was the early 1900's, I could see the scandal.
Megan says:But c'mon. 

Basically, people need to leave this shiz alone. I am 100% behind Miley on this one. I think absolutely no less of the girl for this. I am quite miffed at the media for making such a damn big deal about it. The only reason it's such a big deal is that she's Disney's main money maker right now. If this were to happen like, two years from now, (when she would be 17 and thus too old to be Disney's poster girl) it wouldn't have cause nearly as much of an uproar. There wasn't this much media attention when 16 year old Nickelodeon star Jamie Lynn Spears announced that she was knocked up by her 19 year old boyfriend (which depending on what state you live in a little bit less than legal)

I haven't seen the whole shoot, but the picture of Miley with the sheet seems nearly harmless to me. Like I had said to Megan, it's not like she was bearing all for the world to see. We saw her shoulder and God-forbid, her spine. The expression on her face was not a 'come-hither' one or anything, she look pretty innocent to me.

Anyway, I doubt it will hurt her too much. On the scale of scandals I think this rates near the bottom, and people shoud just shut the hell up about it.

The End.
Lovelovelove
MK

I was very excited when I found out that Fall Out Boy's cover of the classic Michael Jackson song, 'Beat It', had been made into a music video. Generally, their videos are very odd, and this was no exception. From the very start, there are a lot of references to the original artist; the silver glove, the moonwalk, the red suit he wore in the original video and the posturing. Always the posturing.

There were some pleasant surprises to be found in the video, which made me incredibly happy. There are quite a few celebrity cameos, which made me squee with happiness. John Turturro {from 'Oh brother, Where Art Thou?', at -3:18}, Percy Daggs III {from 'Veronica Mars', at -2:51}, Donald Faison {from 'Scrubs', at -2:38}, Tony Hale {from'Arrested Development', at -1:40} AND, surprise of all surprises, Hal Sparks makes an appearance at 3 minutes and 40 seconds of the 3:48 video {or -0:40}.

All those things, plus the fact that I LOVE Patrick Stump, and there's a part where he's pulling on his shirt :3

For those of you who haven't seen it, here's a link to the video. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have:
http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?vid=…

Okay, when reading this blog, please remember that the brain of MK is crammed full of A WHOLE LOT OF SHIT. (No, asshole, I’m not saying that I’m a genius or anything, though I’m a little smarter than the average bear… I just like to fill my head with a lot of useless knowledge…. Like comparisons between 21^st century rock bands and 17^th century poets…) I’m just saying that you have to understand how my brain works I guess. I see comparisons in nearly everything. Everything reminds me of everything else. Seriously. It’s kind of annoying actually. What the hell is my point? Yes. My point is that At first you’re going to be like… “Mk, you are on crack. How the fuck do you come to draw a comparison between “Love Me Dead” and William Shakespeare?”  Well, I’mma tell ya. Just bear with me. – Oh maybe you should also bear in mind that I wrote this in the wee hours of the morning.

 

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In 1609, William Shakespeare wrote his 130^th Sonnet (which happens to be my favorite one!). It was quite a bit different than the typical sonnet of the day. Sonnets typically described their subjects in exaggerated ways, comparing the subjects beauty to flowers, sunshine, the moon, supernovas,  what have you. But Billy S produced this little gem that proclaimed his undying love for his mistress, without drawing false comparisons to nature and/or stellar phenomena.

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red, than her lips red:
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound:
I grant I never saw a goddess go,
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare,
As any she belied with false compare.

The thing is, WillShake didn’t just proclaim his love for a normal girl, he managed to draw a picture of a girl that was kind of.. . ugly.  Let’s translate Shakespeak into MKspeak, k?

My woman has nondescript eyes.
She’s pale.
She has bad breath.
Her voice isn’t too pretty either.
She’s nothing special.
But I love her anyway.

 

Okay, that makes some kind of sense, so far, right?

Alrighty then, moving right along….

 

This is the video for Ludo’s song “Love Me Dead,” and I’ve included the lyrics.

 

 Love me cancerously
Like a salt-sore soaked in the sea.
'High-maintenance' means
You're a gluttonous queen
Narcissistic and mean.
Kill me romantically
Fill my soul with vomit
Then ask me for a piece of gum.
Bitter and dumb
You're my sugarplum.
You're awful, I love you!

CHORUS
She moves through moonbeams slowly
She knows just how to hold me
And when her edges soften
Her body is my coffin
I know she drains me slowly
She wears me down to bones in bed

Must be the sign on my head
That says, oh...
Love me dead! Love me dead!

You're a faith-healer on T.V.
You're an office park without any trees
Corporate and cold
Gushing for gold
Leave me alone.
You suck so passionately
You're a parasitic, psycho, filthy creature
finger-bangin' my heart
You call me up drunk
Does the fun ever start?
You're hideous and sexy!

REPEAT CHORUS

Must be the sign on my head
That says, oh...
Love me dead! Love me dead!

SOLO

Love me cancerously
Brrrot-dot-da-d-da-da!
How's your new boy?
Does he know about me?
You've got the mark of the beast.
You're born of a jackal! You're beautiful!

REPEAT CHORUS

Wha' 'bout that sign on my head
That says, oh...
Love me dead! 

 

I kind of consider “Love Me Dead” as kind of an anti-sonnet, if that makes any sense. In this song, he’s describing how awful his woman is, in the same exaggerated way as beauty was described in the sonnets of Billy Shakes’ day,  and how he still loves her anyway. (Oh, the Album.. it’s called “You’re Awful, I love you” OMG, right? Haha)

I don’t need to translate the song, ‘cause it’s in pretty simple terms, if you don’t understand them, then you’re just an idiot and shouldn’t be reading this anyway. Be gone with you! Yeah, okay, what? Ah, LMD, yes.

 

I don’t really know where I was going with this whole thing, I just had this though the other day how “Love Me Dead” reminded me of that Sonnet, and how every needed to know that because I can’t possibly be the only other person in the world who had that thought. Right?

Please tell me I’m not crazy?

Would you like a sample?
Category: Music

 

A Music rant from MK, regarding Cover Music and Sampling.

I always get a little bit hostile when I hear a new cover song, especially when it's a cover of a song that I really like. The worst offender in this case I think is Jessica Simpson's rape and murder of the classic Berlin song 'Take My Breath Away' Lord God I thought I was going to kill someone the first time I heard that atrocity. Now don't get me wrong, I;m not entirely against covers; not at all. Quite often I am pleasently surprised to find covers that are very good - Quietdrive's "Time After Time" and Fall Out Boy's "Beat it" spring immediately to mind, not to mention other, classic covers from artists like JIMI HENDRIX and ELVIS for example. Oh, and New Found Glory's "From the Screen to your Stereo" albums. ( My fav would be 'It Ain't Me' and 'King of Wishful Thinking'... I think. I suck at picking favorites. As soon as I typed that I was like.. 'Oh and... and.... and...')

Anyway, back on topic.... Uhm.... I dont' hate all covers, so just go out and say "Don't do covers, cause they suck," it's just that sometimes it really annoys me when someone can't do their own shit and steals some one else's - ESPECIALLY when an interviewer asks them about it and they can't even tell you anythign about the original version of the song. I'M LOOKING AT YOU BRITNEY SPEARS! How dare you cover "I love Rock and Roll" and not at least know that it's by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts!?! Yeah, it's been like what, 5 years, and I'm still miffed about it.)

I had a point.... What was it? Yes, the idea of someone just remaking some one else's song sometimes used to make me incredibly angry.... THAT IS, until I grasped the concept of sampling. OH MY LORD. So, not only are we going to make money by ripping off someone else's hard work, but we don't even do the whole thing!Let's just cut this little peice of a song and loop it and pretend we made it up! Not all samples are bad, either, I meanh, I wouldn't be allowed to call myself a fan of the 90's if I didn't like "Ice Ice Baby," which everyone knows samples "Under Pressure" by Queen+David Bowie - and if you didn't know that, SHAME ON YOU! Shit, now that I mention "Ice Ice baby" I'm going to have that damn song stuck in my head for the next three weeks.  Damn it.

The biggest Music Sampling offendor that I can think of would most certainly have to be that damn Sean Kingston kid with that God-awful "Beautiful Girls." I fucking hate that song; firstly, because it's so damn repetative, and not in that fun "Don't Worry, Be Happy" kind of way, but just annoying, like, if you're in the car, talking to your passenger, and aren't really listening to the song, you just hear this repeating "SUICIDAL SUICIDAL SUICIDAL." Boy, let me tell you, that's exactly what I want to hear in my fun driving music. Suicide! Yay! The Second, and more infuriating reason I hate that song with such a burnign fiery passion, is because it samples "Stand By Me" by Ben E. King ( it was covered by Sam Cooke, whose version I enjoy very much as well.) FOR SHAME! That song is such a beautiful classic peice of music, and you want to chop a peice of it and slap it into a loop and add some of the worst lyrics ever!?! That's just like, sinful, or something.

For the longest time, though I knew it sampled a song that I knew and loved, I could not put my finger on what song it was! It drove me nuts for weeks. I kept telling myself I was going to look it up and see, but I was always distracted (isn't ADD awesome?) and never did look it up. Then one day, I just happened to have been flipping through radio stations, and the Oldies station (which I love <3) was just coming off a commercial, and what do you know the song that comes on is "Stand By Me" and then it hits me! It's a good thing it was dark outside at the time, because anyone who saw me would have witnessed my subsequent bitching at the radio, which honestly was a little unintelligible even to me. I nearly punched a hole in the wall when i cam home and checked on the internet to have my realization confirmed. I was so pissed, and vowed hatred for Sean Kingston for all eternity. Then he released that grammatical dabacle "Me Love." Wow, my inner word nerd cried that day. I never thought I'd miss 'Beautiful Girls."

Okay So the whole reason I started this rant... was Kid Rock. Now I hate that, because I actually kind of enjoy Kid Rock, especially his last single "Amen," which was my profile song not too long ago. He recently released a new song called "All Summer Long" and I wne through such a bipolar range of emotions within the less than 5 minute span of the song. "Why so emotional, Mk?" you may ask. Well, I'll tell you! While the Dj was talking I heard a very familiartune; a fun, kind of odd song from the late 70's that I very much enjoy hearing in the car, called 'Werewolves of London," and I get all excited, because I think I'm goign to hear "Werewolves of London" and then the DJ says that it's the new one form Kid Rock. WHAT?? BUT NO, it didn't end there, oh no sireee. I'm already pissed that Kid Rock has sampled Werewolves, and then it gets to the chorus, and I hear "Sweet Home Alabama"

NO NO NO NO NO. No. Just no. Basically he took "Sweet Home Alabama" and 'Werewolves of London" and threw them into a food prcessor. So now, I'm like, angry and also sad, as I;m screaming at the radio (this time it was in broad daylight...) Though, eventually I was forced to forgive the 'Sweet Home Alabama" peice because of the line "singin' Sweet Home Alabama all summer long" so... yeah.

In the end.. I hate myself. I hate myself because I liked the damn song.

<3 MK

This is mainly because of long discussions with verbalthing and my realisations, or moreover, getting over my denial that X3 was a piece of shit. These are my thoughts on what they should have done with the X-Men movies, should I have had any say over it.

There are some spoilers in these, so if you haven't seen any of the movies and want to, don't read 'em. Also some comic lore/spoilers to go along with it. Because I am that thorough.

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-Megan

Oh here we go kids, Mk's gone and found herself another new musical obsession...

What happens when Mk has nothing to do and spends all day channel surfing? She watches SURS, and discovers the flipping coolest music video since... the last amazing video???

Their name is A Cursive Memory and I love them.

Watch the video and play "Name that Star!"



See what I mean? How awesome is that video? Seriously.
Yeah... like I said... new musical obsession. Well, it's not really an obsession, but it's on it's way. I've listened to "Everything" like 254876952458 today. It;s jsut so much fun!

But don't get me wrong, this isn't a one song interest, the rest of their stuff (or at least as much as their MySpace has) is pretty darn sweet as well. :D I'm off to iTunes as soon as i get on the other computer!

Oh, and what makes this even better. They're going to be at Warped Tour, and guess who's goin'???

Frshr.
-MK

So, I'm going to Disney World this summer for the second time in my life. Now, as a person who loves Disney movies, this may seem shocking to some people, but for two factors; One, my parents have been in debt forever, and so we only got to go one time. Two, when we went, I flipped out on an alien ride when we were in the Tomorrow Land park in the Magic Kingdom {hey, I was only 7}.

Now, it just so happens that the first weekend we're going to be there is a Star Wars weekend. I didn't know this until my friend pointed it out, but there are going to be two celebrity guests there; David Prowse, who played Darth Vader {in body only} and Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca! AND as an added bonus, Warwick Davis, who played the Ewok Wickett in 'Return of the Jedi' is going to be the host for each Star Wars weekend.

Add to that the fact that in one of the areas, you can make your own lightsaber for $20, makes for one happy Star Wars fangirl :) Of course, that means the original three only, none of the sequel crap, which I'll rant about soon enough.

-Megan