Post: #51

(01-19-2018 04:39 AM)CynicalContrarian Wrote:  The simplicity of pop music adequately summarized in this one clip :

A comment on that youtube video said the fat guy in the middle is now a woman. I didn't think they were serious, but apparently he's a transgender now.
Hell, he wasn't even good looking as guy - how is this supposed to be an improvement? I'd have expected him to come out as a gorilla, not a woman.

But as for the music, yeah, it's not only focus tested now, it's engineered before it even gets made. The book The Song Machine explains it all in depressing detail. Boomer artists like Jimmy Buffet were able to raise their cut of an album sale from $3 to $6 bucks, making them millions. Nowadays no artist has anywhere near that kind of control, not to mention that nobody buys albums anymore.

Post: #52

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/s...uest-finds

Quote:Dolores O’Riordan, the lead singer of the Cranberries, drowned in a bath as a result of intoxication from alcohol, an inquest has found.

The inquest at inner west London coroner’s court, held on what would have been O'Riordan's 47th birthday, heard that she had been drinking heavily before she was found dead in room 2005 of the Hilton hotel in Park Lane, London, at about 9am on 15 January.

Her alcohol level was 330mg per 100ml of blood, more than four times the legal limit for driving. The court heard that she had struggled for many years with bipolar disorder and excessive drinking.

O’Riordan, who had been in London for a recording session, was found by a maid the morning after she checked into the hotel. She was submerged face up in the bath, wearing a long-sleeved vest and pyjama bottoms. When paramedics arrived, police were performing CPR on her in the bathroom. At 9.16am she was declared dead.

Evidence was found of heavy drinking and smoking and use of prescription drugs including lorazepam. Five empty miniatures from the minibar, which had been accessed at 2.10am, were discovered as well as a 35cl bottle of champagne.

A postmortem report by Dr Adam Combe concluded that O’Riordan drowned as a result of alcohol intoxication. Levels of medication in her blood were therapeutic, no note was found and police said after her death that it was not suspicious.

The coroner, Dr Shirley Radcliffe, said: “There’s no evidence that this was anything other than an accident. There was no intention, this seems to be solely a tragic accident.”

Post: #53

How many celebrity women have died over the last several years by imbibing a bunch of drugs and/or alcohol, then deciding to take a bath, usually with their clothes on?

Post: #54

Quote:Evidence was found of heavy drinking and smoking and use of prescription drugs including lorazepam. Five empty miniatures from the minibar, which had been accessed at 2.10am, were discovered as well as a 35cl bottle of champagne.

That's hardly heavy drinking, particularly for an Irish rocker girl.

A 35cl bottle of champagne is a half bottle. And 5 mini spirits is hardly enough to get you so shit-faced that you drown in the bath.

Post: #55

Who gets into a bath with their clothes on? Someone who knows their body will be found and wants to preserve their modesty.

The coroner is erring on the side preserving the singer's reputation.

Post: #56

(01-19-2018 04:39 AM)CynicalContrarian Wrote:  

(01-18-2018 10:44 PM)AnonymousBosch Wrote:  I consider myself retired. Who the hell would want to be part of current popular culture? It's for twenty and thirty somethings with the emotional maturity and concerns of middle schoolers. Much like current Politics, really. Why you want to try to climb to the top of the mountain if it's just a pile of, well, dung?

The simplicity of pop music adequately summarized in this one clip :




Part of the reason why I listen to much more involved metal.

Why I to listen to symphonic metal like this: