Have you abstained from buying pirated DVDs lately, like a teenager trying not to wank on Christmas morning and gone out to watch a movie (hell...any bloody movie. Pedophile vampires that sparkle, perhaps? Or Tin Man from Wizard of Oz's lean mean cousin fighting to save the world?)
Well, if you haven't (you cheapskate dick), go watch one before it's too late, but if you have, you'll notice a certain Nike ad.
In the ad, there are football stars playing in the World Cup (without the awesome vuvuzelas) running and jumping and kicking but whats more important is the split second before they make their next destiny altering move, their lives flash in front of them and by far Wayne 'Shrek' Rooney's is the funniest.
Anyhoo, the advert showed them achieving major success after the World Cup. Now, lets flip the back pages of the biased newspapers.
It seems that all the players highlighted in the ad are no longer in the World Cup and I know that this is pure coincidence, but isn't it fun building conspiracy theories about the sort of hoodoo Adidas cast upon the superstars of Nike right?
Anyhoo,
For all the cheapskate dicks, here's the ad..in HD..NOT!
Drogba, Canavarro, Rooney, Ribery, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo
Close to two years have passed and I hear same crap on the radio, not same songs but utter crap!
Here's some maths:
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Anyhoo,
If we look at the evolution of the Blues, it started in Africa (a far cry from this Waka Waka nonsense) and it evolved into work songs that African slaves in America sung.
The songs they sung, My Lord...was of a higher intellectual and poetic matter. One that put their hardship, the heat, the long hours, sorrow, pain and even jokes, satirical content and much more into words and melody. Their first born would know of Africa through the songs sung, be it those call-and-return kind or straight up songs. Them working people sung the Blues.
When slavery ended, some Blues Men travelled up north while the others stayed down south. This emigration of the Blues Men proved pivotal for the development of the Blues.
However, we shall discuss Delta Blues, 12-Bar and Zeppelin in-depth some other time.
The Blues as we know it has evolved to various forms including hip swinging Rock & Roll, Jazz, Soul, Rhythm & Blues which all evolved further to Funk, Electric Blues, (now what we call) Classic Rock and it evolved more into Hip-Hop, Rap(Gangsta or not remains irrelevant), Pop, Pop (pronounced: ghey) Rock and much more.
So we have people like Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Beatles, The Who, The Beach Boys, Procol Harum, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Bryan Adams, Joan Jett, Heart, Guns & Roses, Chicago, Boys II Men, James Brown, MJ, My Chemical Romance, KISS, Queen, Duffy, Aretha Franklin, Deep Purple, Orianthi and many more even a Chinese song I heard (not listened) producing/recording a variation of the blues or at least have some bluesy influence.
There is without a doubt that The Blues plays a significant role in today's music. But how the hell can you compare a very suggestive yet sexual A Whiter Shade of Gray to Pitbull's Hotel Room. It's just rude..ain't it..no taste!
Speaking of repetition, I just cant understand why Hey Jude's Na....na na..na na na na......na na na na..Hey Jude
doesn't piss me off as much as Justin Bieber's I'm not even gonna type it..dicks! :)
In conclusion, we have evolved, theoretically, we are a more smarter race compared to some 40 odd years ago. So start writing songs that will actually suit our 'intellect'. Don't insult us with
Your feeling that tonight's gonna be a good good night
or
How lucky you are to be in love with your best friend
We just don't make songs likeTHEY used to..sigh.. Ooh..have fun with this one:
