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subpar anachronism posted:this is the thread where you learn you have an auditory processing disorder Perhaps.
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gleebster posted:The average pop song (my definition is any song recognized by its performers rather than its writers) is sung by someone whose diction is so poor that the average listener gives up trying and just enjoys the tune. Case in point: https://vault.fbi.gov/louie-louie-the-song/louie-louie-the-song/view tl;dr version: "The FBI Laboratory unable to determine words of lyrics and cannot determine it to be obscene".
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Any time I hear Eminence Front in a commercial. Though 16 Tons in a pro-coal ad is tough to beat.
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Apr 19, 2021 03:15
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People complaining about music being used wrong in commercials are goofy, ninety percent of people never think about the lyrics at all except the hook
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Apr 19, 2021 03:21
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I brought my Drake posted:Any time I hear Eminence Front in a commercial. Though 16 Tons in a pro-coal ad is tough to beat. Sixteen Tons in pro-coal ads is always going to be the strongest one of these. At least most of the rest of these have ambiguous choruses or unclear lyrics; Sixteen Tons is VERY clear, both in diction and intention.
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This is why Splatoon's music works, everyone's used to pop songs you can barely tell the lyrics of, so made up squid language just takes off the burden of having to try to understand it.
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Apr 19, 2021 04:32
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The Katy Perry expansion of the Sims must be the tops for that
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Apr 19, 2021 04:36
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Ghost Leviathan posted:This is why Splatoon's music works, everyone's used to pop songs you can barely tell the lyrics of, so made up squid language just takes off the burden of having to try to understand it. More commercials should draw from the burgeoning fartcore scene
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Apr 19, 2021 04:40
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Gaius Marius posted:The Katy Perry expansion of the Sims must be the tops for that My coworker, after I introduced him to simlish songs, made a CD of them and put it in for the hourlong commute he and the significant other would take to work. The SO thought they were having a stroke. The best is the Run Away With Me one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6AgO-5ebXc
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Apr 19, 2021 07:38
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spookykid posted:My coworker, after I introduced him to simlish songs, made a CD of them and put it in for the hourlong commute he and the significant other would take to work. The SO thought they were having a stroke.  that's fantastic
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Apr 19, 2021 16:52
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Cleretic posted:Sixteen Tons in pro-coal ads is always going to be the strongest one of these. At least most of the rest of these have ambiguous choruses or unclear lyrics; Sixteen Tons is VERY clear, both in diction and intention. The cherry on top of it is that the ad is announcing clean coal is coming. 16 years later and clean coal is still a myth.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:This is why Splatoon's music works, everyone's used to pop songs you can barely tell the lyrics of, so made up squid language just takes off the burden of having to try to understand it. One of the splatfest songs chorus sounds just like a TMbG song and it's really distracting because my brain is trying to recognize the lyrics or something instead of paying attention to the drat game. Relevant Timestamps: Splatoon 2: Muck Warfare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-xvUfi21Zg&t=42s They Might Be Giants: Icky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6xzIPhnsCE&t=38s
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Apr 19, 2021 19:22
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A big estate agency, aka realtor here in Ireland (country is relevant because we have an exceptionally peppery history with landlords) ran a radio ad here advertising their services to landlords. The tagline? "We do the dirty work so you don't have to" It lasted for about 2 days before it disappeared forever.
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Apr 20, 2021 16:50
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https://twitter.com/Raiders/status/1384650781672939521 https://twitter.com/tashanreed/status/1384678222063833090
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That sounds like a reasonable response
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Apr 21, 2021 07:53
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Doggles posted:https://twitter.com/Raiders/status/1384650781672939521 It was a boneheaded statement but honestly that’s a well thought response and ownership of said boneheadedness. I’ve seen companies and people get defensive and double down instead of step back and realize “I hosed up, let’s turn this around” I hate that this isn’t the norm.
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Apr 21, 2021 08:09
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teen witch posted:It was a boneheaded statement but honestly that’s a well thought response and ownership of said boneheadedness. I’ve seen companies and people get defensive and double down instead of step back and realize “I hosed up, let’s turn this around” "I hosed up, I won't delete my fuckup though" doesn't sound great
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Apr 21, 2021 11:33
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Gort posted:"I hosed up, I won't delete my fuckup though" doesn't sound great It was tweeted and the screenshots are out there. Deleting it wouldn't actually solve anything
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Apr 21, 2021 11:46
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Len posted:It was tweeted and the screenshots are out there. Deleting it wouldn't actually solve anything It would mean fewer people would see it and would send a clear message that the statement has been retracted, I'd have thought.
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Apr 21, 2021 13:03
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Alternately it makes it seem like they’re trying to memory-hole a mistake instead of honestly facing up to it.
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Apr 21, 2021 13:41
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I understand why you can't edit tweets. But Twitter should really let you add some sort of clarifying thing (outside of the 280 chars) to a tweet after the fact which will (almost) always appear alongside it. Instead of this thing where if you don't delete it, it can just show up anywhere without context forever, and people keep engaging with it regardless of how it might have been addressed afterward. Or maybe some sort of "tweet lock" where you can suppress engagement on a tweet; can't be liked/replied/retweeted anymore, maybe it won't even embed anymore, etc.
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Apr 21, 2021 14:04
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Byzantine posted:Well since I kissed you, baby, that evening in the park These lyrics or anything about atomic bombs aren't in the song Melt With You, what am I missing?
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Apr 21, 2021 16:48
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Gort posted:It would mean fewer people would see it and would send a clear message that the statement has been retracted, I'd have thought. On the other hand people who dont know that specific reference can interpret it in “probably” the way it was intended. Giving him the benefit of the doubt but my interpretation is that now that Chauvin has been convicted and justice served Floyd can now breathe/rest easy. I thought his response of “ i learned something and need to learn more” was pretty dang perfect.
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Apr 21, 2021 16:53
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Sucrose posted:These lyrics or anything about atomic bombs aren't in the song Melt With You, what am I missing? So, Byzantine's quoting a song called Radioactive Mama, which is a song literally about contracting cartoonish radiation poisoning while making out with, as the name suggests, a radioactive woman. Performed by Robert Allman as part of a novelty album about sci-fi concepts. The album's had an entirely different song tapped for the radio in Fallout games, which should give you an idea of the tone and content of the whole thing. No loving idea why they brought it up, but there you go. I Melt With You absolutely is about making love while an atomic bomb drops, though, that's confirmed by the song's writer ('I'll melt with you' is, chillingly, not a metaphor). It was right around the beginning of the eighties, the spectre of the Cold War was still there. It's not as blatant about the subject as, say, 99 Luftballoons, but it was absolutely the song's intent. Cleretic has a new favorite as of 17:11 on Apr 21, 2021 |
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Apr 21, 2021 17:09
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spookykid posted:My coworker, after I introduced him to simlish songs, made a CD of them and put it in for the hourlong commute he and the significant other would take to work. The SO thought they were having a stroke. The Bloop posted:To this specific point: Gonna tie these two posts together 'cause I actually kind of dig this cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-2FjDLYY3E
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Sir Lemming posted:I understand why you can't edit tweets. But Twitter should really let you add some sort of clarifying thing (outside of the 280 chars) to a tweet after the fact which will (almost) always appear alongside it. Instead of this thing where if you don't delete it, it can just show up anywhere without context forever, and people keep engaging with it regardless of how it might have been addressed afterward. Or maybe some sort of "tweet lock" where you can suppress engagement on a tweet; can't be liked/replied/retweeted anymore, maybe it won't even embed anymore, etc. Twitter acts like it’s some unsolvable problem, but it’s just another example of how irresponsible they are as a platform. Consider that the Something Awful forums, running on code birthed from the fires of hell twenty loving years ago, somehow manages to not only let people edit posts, but also flag that they’ve been edited, give them a grace period to edit without that flag, and block edits on a forum-level granularity. All Twitter needs to do is put an edited flag on a tweet that, when clicked, shows the original tweet. SA might not do that, but despite Jeffrey’s riches, he’s not a multinational corporation worth billions of dollars that employs thousands of engineers.
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Apr 21, 2021 18:04
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Vandar posted:Gonna tie these two posts together 'cause I actually kind of dig this cover: I'll just be incredibly  and mention that TMBG re-recorded this for the game, and that's really Flansburgh singing in Simlish. AFAIR, I think a few other bands did this kinda thing for the Sims 2 College expansion? Stuff for dorm radios.
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Apr 22, 2021 05:11
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Sir Lemming posted:I understand why you can't edit tweets. But Twitter should really let you add some sort of clarifying thing (outside of the 280 chars) to a tweet after the fact which will (almost) always appear alongside it. Instead of this thing where if you don't delete it, it can just show up anywhere without context forever, and people keep engaging with it regardless of how it might have been addressed afterward. Or maybe some sort of "tweet lock" where you can suppress engagement on a tweet; can't be liked/replied/retweeted anymore, maybe it won't even embed anymore, etc. If you reply to your tweet you’ll be the first comment anyone sees so that could be used for clarification. You can indeed turn replies off too, but not sure if that can be done afterwards or only when making the post. E: looks like it’s only when you make it originally, unless I’m just not seeing the option.
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Apr 22, 2021 05:18
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The best solution to Twitter it people need to stop loving using Twitter.
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Keystoned posted:On the other hand people who dont know that specific reference can interpret it in “probably” the way it was intended. That's what I thought the tweet meant I thought the uproar was because it was a sports team being woke or something to do with 4/20. Didn't know that cops had used the phrase
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Apr 22, 2021 15:29
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Cyril Sneer posted:The best solution to Twitter it people need to stop loving using Twitter. Agreed. FRANK is the new hotness
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geeko55 posted:I'll just be incredibly Yeah, a couple of bands did this for Sims games, this being my favorite  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvXQhxKodo8
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Holy poo poo I didn't know some of these had been made for the Sims. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb-VRm966iM
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HopperUK posted:Holy poo poo I didn't know some of these had been made for the Sims. The Sims got an absolute shitload of actual artists to sing in their weird made up language, and not just well known ones, some of them are really out there, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_InKiijeWrs
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Apr 24, 2021 01:20
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Did Tom Hanks steal their pancreas or do they want to steal Tom Hanks's pancreas?
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Apr 24, 2021 02:01
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I have so many questions, but I feel like any answers would only leave me with more.
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Sucrose posted:Did Tom Hanks steal their pancreas or do they want to steal Tom Hanks's pancreas? They already stole Tom Hanks' pancreas and it's just a statement of fact Hard to run for long without your pancreas
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EoinCannon posted:That's what I thought the tweet meant For me it was mostly that a rich white guy was like "oh, I guess that's all okay now, I can breathe again." Would have really prefered even the minimum "we can breathe." But his dad Al Davis did a bunch for racial equality, so I'm gonna let it flow under.
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Gort posted:"I hosed up, I won't delete my fuckup though" doesn't sound great "I, the head person of the organization, am solely responsible for this and I apologize for it" is like the most absolute progressive woke thing a billionaire businessman can do in that situation. Going even further to say "and no, I won't try to pretend like it didn't happen" is even more shocking. I was expecting they just pull a "we regret the tweet, the social media intern in question has been fired" and try to play it off like nothing happened.
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