Red Mosquito

Lament wrote:It'd be a better song if at some point he said "THESE FIVE WORDS I SWEAR TO YOU! I SEE OUR FUTURE DAYS!"

EJ wrote:

McParadigm wrote:
I'm currently sitting comfortable at zero friends.

I'll be your friend.

Lament wrote:Ok, but the chart placing was brought in to rebuke bodysnatcher's comments about making a "bad song less bad."

Strat wrote:I found myself super moved by this song actually yesterday. I guess when you get close to losing someone you adore, cheesy shit hits the soul :\

aurynsdad wrote:

Lament wrote:Ok, but the chart placing was brought in to rebuke bodysnatcher's comments about making a "bad song less bad."

No it wasn't. I quoted that comment because I felt that the chart placing was a "higher compliment" to the song than that comment, which IIRC you said was the highest compliment. Whether a song is good or not, it selling well is undoubtedly a compliment.

BurtReynolds wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:I took out the intro and outro Bo'B wankfest

It's a start, I guess.

it certainly makes a bad song less bad.

Lament wrote:But at least this time is was bodysnatcher being forgotten, and not you. That's a step in the right direction, right?

aurynsdad wrote:Whether a song is good or not, it selling well is undoubtedly a compliment.

Lament wrote:

aurynsdad wrote:

Lament wrote:Ok, but the chart placing was brought in to rebuke bodysnatcher's comments about making a "bad song less bad."

No it wasn't. I quoted that comment because I felt that the chart placing was a "higher compliment" to the song than that comment, which IIRC you said was the highest compliment. Whether a song is good or not, it selling well is undoubtedly a compliment.

If you recalled correctly, you would recall that I did not make that comment. BurtReynolds did. But since he gets less respect around here than Rodney Dangerfield and is constantly forgotten/omitted by everyone, you've attributed it to me.

And if you honestly believe something selling well is "undoubtedly a compliment," well, then I suppose there's not much worth saying. Glenn Beck sells a lot of books. Hell, Mein Kampf sold 10 million copies in Germany before Hitler died. That's a pretty great compliment!

stip wrote:We've finally crossed the Future Days = Hitler Rubicon

stip wrote:We've finally crossed the Future Days = Hitler Rubicon

stip wrote:It's cheesy as hell, but it's unapologetically cheesy, which matters.

What also mattes, I think (a lot) and what separates this from, say Bon Jovi, is that it's coming from a band that normally doesn't write in terms of cheese, and has a pretty large back catalog moving entirely in the opposite direction. Cheese is a problem when it is lazy and manipulative and it is all you do. But there is an authenticity to it when the cheese is an exception, rather than the rule. It becomes an honest, unguarded, pure sentiment.