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Dawgstar posted:His slavish devotion to the Silver Age and trying to restore those particular characters was always a mystery because he didn't grow up reading those or anything, Johns just somewhere decided he wanted the most boring Flash and Green Lantern back. Yeah, with his age I'm starting to think that it's just some contrarian streak in him that made him gravitate towards them in the first place, and then he rode that straight into Hollywood
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Jul 21, 2023 13:51
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Captain Invictus posted:he could make a series surviving on nothing but dunkin donuts while he travels to every single dunkin donuts in the US He could go in chronological order and be dead of diabetes before he crosses 495 into western Mass.
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Jul 21, 2023 14:33
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I would like to humbly request that people who make videos where food is involved not have weird slurping and squishing noises they added in post in the video.
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Jul 21, 2023 15:50
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TheMightyBoops posted:I would like to humbly request that people who make videos where food is involved not have weird slurping and squishing noises they added in post in the video. thats what people are watching the video for though
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Jul 21, 2023 15:51
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Grassy Knowles posted:Eek was awesome, thunderlizards sucked, I liked Lizzie McGuire, now he does live action Nickelodeon movies and a series of 3 live action fairy odd parents films? I liked Thunderlizards 
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Jul 21, 2023 15:52
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TheMightyBoops posted:I would like to humbly request that people who make videos where food is involved not have weird slurping and squishing noises they added in post in the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhgjinJ8bU0
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Jul 21, 2023 16:01
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Genuinely, Geoff Johns as a creative head of DC comics and the film division was at the center of a lot of the stupidest initiatives and was definitely one of the bigoted pig guys dragging both the comics and films down. His only rebuttal to the allegations of bullshit racism and homophobia around the Justice League movie is that he was a co-writer on the 52 comic series, the comic series that introduced Batwoman. That series had 4 co-writers, and you could tell whose pet charters were each writer's and everything involving Batwoman and her ex, Renee Montoya, were entirely Greg Rucka's initiative. To the point that Rucka wrote all the follow up series with both of them until he quit DC in frustration and his artist, JH Williams III, took over writing Batwoman until he also quit in frustration because DC comics refused to move ahead with an issue where Batwoman gets gay married. I wonder who was blocking that...  Happy Landfill posted:I didn't know Hbomb did that. That's super cool I watched that, too, and it is a great video analyzing Hairspray and talking about how some of the messaging and representation has shifted over the years and across adaptions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhNzgyuf9yc Nuns with Guns fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Jul 21, 2023 |
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Jul 21, 2023 16:13
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Ok this is probably the baffling candidate for "one hit wonder", since I can recall at least 2 videoclips that got a lot of traction AND the Pavarotti and Friends collab.
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Jul 21, 2023 16:34
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it's less baffling when you consider the Barbie movie is in theaters today
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Jul 21, 2023 16:57
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Cartoon Heroes was a hit and the most expensive music video
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Jul 21, 2023 17:00
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Doctor Jones was an anthem of my childhood.
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Jul 21, 2023 17:03
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TheMightyBoops posted:I would like to humbly request that people who make videos where food is involved not have weird slurping and squishing noises they added in post in the video. That's my personal zero to 100%rage red button.
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Jul 21, 2023 17:05
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As soon as I heard Dr Jones in that video lene doing the funny yodelling of, idk, oh wah ah yee eh yo ooh yee way yeah, immediately starts in my head
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Jul 21, 2023 17:08
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Alaois posted:thats what people are watching the video for though That's unfair. Sometimes they watch it for that tiny Japanese woman showing off how much her stomach swells after she downs an entire McDonald's worth of Big Macs or whatever.
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Jul 21, 2023 17:35
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Barbie Girl has finally made it to One Hit Wonderland. I am amazed that Todd was able to put this off for more than a decade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqE9B1_9TpQ side_burned fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Jul 21, 2023 |
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Jul 21, 2023 17:56
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Johns is unusual amongst big comic book creators in that almost everything he's written was for DC and Marvel as a part of existing franchises. It's only in the last few years that he's really branched out. It just adds to the feeling that he's a bit unimaginative. Well, also the fact that most of his big storylines he took fromr ejected Alan Moore ideas.
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Jul 21, 2023 18:31
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Kunster posted:Ok this is probably the baffling candidate for "one hit wonder", since I can recall at least 2 videoclips that got a lot of traction AND the Pavarotti and Friends collab. side_burned posted:Barbie Girl has finally made it to One Hit Wonderland. I am amazed that Todd was able to put this off for more than a decade. 
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Jul 21, 2023 18:46
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side_burned posted:Barbie Girl has finally made it to One Hit Wonderland. I am amazed that Todd was able to put this off for more than a decade. Yeah, starting to think the timing of Crown Royal was deliberate.
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Jul 21, 2023 19:27
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unVbXfNdTkY Jose does a new video on Sabrina the Teenage Witch The version of the show that does have the best character 
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Jul 21, 2023 19:40
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Kunster posted:Ok this is probably the baffling candidate for "one hit wonder", since I can recall at least 2 videoclips that got a lot of traction AND the Pavarotti and Friends collab. Watching that video has made me realize that Aqua was apparently way bigger in Canada than they were in the US. I was between 10-12 when their first two albums came out and I remember pretty much all the songs they produced videos for in that time seeing consistent play on YTV's The Hit List. I was actually disappointed by Todd's overview of their "failed follow-ups" because he didn't mention My Oh My, one of the singles off their first album I remember getting a lot of video play back in the day. This actually got me thinking about if this popularity difference was real or just the result of me being at the right age when their albums came out to get a lot of exposure, so I decided to check on Wikipedia. Turns out this wasn't just coincidence and Aqua was way more successful up here than they were in the US: Aquarium reached #2 on the Canadian Weekly album charts compared to #7 on the US Billboard 200. It similarly reached #5 on the Canadian year-end charts, compared to 36 in the US. It was their second album, Aquarius, where the chart performance differences really start to become noticeable: The album hit #3 on the Canadian weekly charts but only hit 82 in the US. It also reached #34 on the Canadian year-end charts, but failed to even place in the US equivalent. Then this got me following a rabbit-hole of late-90s, Canadian pop music and has me looking up old videos for Prozzak, B44 and SoulDecision... Grassy Knowles posted:Cartoon Heroes was a hit and the most expensive music video 8th most expensive, actually!
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Jul 21, 2023 19:41
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Seriously though, the Cartoon Heroes video has some astonishing set and prop design for a throwaway pop tune that absolutely could have skated by with a cheap rear end video like Barbie Girl and Doctor Jones. I don't understand for the life of me why the record company spent that much money on it.
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Jul 21, 2023 19:48
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Fil5000 posted:Seriously though, the Cartoon Heroes video has some astonishing set and prop design for a throwaway pop tune that absolutely could have skated by with a cheap rear end video like Barbie Girl and Doctor Jones. I don't understand for the life of me why the record company spent that much money on it. Probably to try and capture that Barbie lightning in a bottle again.
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Jul 21, 2023 20:02
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Most 90s European dance music has strong 1 hit wonder vibes even when the band objectively had plural hits.
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Jul 21, 2023 20:20
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DC Murderverse posted:Most 90s European dance music has strong 1 hit wonder vibes even when the band objectively had plural hits. Screamadelica rules.
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Jul 21, 2023 20:22
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Kunster posted:Ok this is probably the baffling candidate for "one hit wonder", since I can recall at least 2 videoclips that got a lot of traction AND the Pavarotti and Friends collab. God, I remember the controversy around the "undress me anywhere" line. I think I was in third grade, so naturally, that was the most scandalous thing I had ever heard in my life.
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Jul 21, 2023 20:22
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Fil5000 posted:I don't understand for the life of me why the record company spent that much money on it. Because Aquarium sold 14 million copies worldwide. Lene Nystrøm actually tried to have as solo career: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf8kNuxgWR4 It went badly.
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Jul 21, 2023 20:31
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It's sad that more people don't know that Eiffel 65 has songs other than Blue. Europop was extremely my jam back in high school
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Jul 21, 2023 20:31
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Aqua had three UK #1's! Turn Back Time is a banger.
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Jul 21, 2023 20:32
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Sardonik posted:It's sad that more people don't know that Eiffel 65 has songs other than Blue. Europop was extremely my jam back in high school That was another group that saw a bit more longevity in Canada. Their follow-up "Move Your Body" made it to #7 on the Canadian Weekly charts and I remember the video for "Lucky (In My Life)" saw some decent airplay on The Hit List. Though I think the most ridiculous of their songs on a conceptual level was "My Console", which was just the lead singer listing off the names of PS1 games he likes over a Eurodance beat...
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Jul 21, 2023 20:36
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KingKalamari posted:That was another group that saw a bit more longevity in Canada. Their follow-up "Move Your Body" made it to #7 on the Canadian Weekly charts and I remember the video for "Lucky (In My Life)" saw some decent airplay on The Hit List. Though I think the most ridiculous of their songs on a conceptual level was "My Console", which was just the lead singer listing off the names of PS1 games he likes over a Eurodance beat... WE'RE GONNA PLAY THE GAMES THE PLAYSTATION ALL DAY FROM METAL GEAR SOLID TO TEKKEN 3 AND FROM OMEGA BOOST TO RESIDENT EVIL WE PLAY FOR FUN CAUSE WE GOT IT GOIN ON
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Jul 21, 2023 20:42
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KingKalamari posted:That was another group that saw a bit more longevity in Canada. Their follow-up "Move Your Body" made it to #7 on the Canadian Weekly charts and I remember the video for "Lucky (In My Life)" saw some decent airplay on The Hit List. Though I think the most ridiculous of their songs on a conceptual level was "My Console", which was just the lead singer listing off the names of PS1 games he likes over a Eurodance beat... Move Your Body owned hard when I was a kid.
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Jul 21, 2023 21:18
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Kim Justice posted:Aqua had three UK #1's! Turn Back Time is a banger. Legit great song, with the marketing bonus of being on a relatively hyped up movie soundtrack even if I don’t know if anyone remembers Sliding Doors these days.
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Jul 21, 2023 21:34
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Kim Justice posted:Aqua had three UK #1's! Turn Back Time is a banger. Honestly didn't know/forgot Turn Back Time was them. I feel like Sliding Doors was the movie Gwen Paltrow made a name for herself but it seems to be totally forgotten now.
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Jul 21, 2023 22:33
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BizarroAzrael posted:Honestly didn't know/forgot Turn Back Time was them. I feel like Sliding Doors was the movie Gwen Paltrow made a name for herself but it seems to be totally forgotten now. It was left out and got covered in goop
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Jul 21, 2023 22:38
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Shinji2015 posted:Yeah, with his age I'm starting to think that it's just some contrarian streak in him that made him gravitate towards them in the first place, and then he rode that straight into Hollywood IIRC he wrote in as a fan to DC suggesting that maybe Superboy (who’s a clone/hybrid of Superman) could have his human half be Lex Luthor’s DNA. The editors shot that idea down since his heritage had already been established. And then Johns became a writer and promptly retconned Superboy’s human half came from Lex Luthor.
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Jul 21, 2023 23:15
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Dawgstar posted:Now, that may not be entirely fair! It could as easily be Dan DiDio, who was finally given the boot a while back. Joe Quesada did have his flaws as an editor but those flaws at least came from place genuine affection. But Dan DiDio just seemed hate his job, the readers, the writers, and the characters all at once. Not to mention he had some just weird hand ups about some characters like John Constantine and Swamp Thing.
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Jul 22, 2023 01:11
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Yvonmukluk posted:IIRC he wrote in as a fan to DC suggesting that maybe Superboy (who’s a clone/hybrid of Superman) could have his human half be Lex Luthor’s DNA. The editors shot that idea down since his heritage had already been established. And then Johns became a writer and promptly retconned Superboy’s human half came from Lex Luthor. lol
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Jul 22, 2023 01:19
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Yvonmukluk posted:IIRC he wrote in as a fan to DC suggesting that maybe Superboy (who’s a clone/hybrid of Superman) could have his human half be Lex Luthor’s DNA. The editors shot that idea down since his heritage had already been established. And then Johns became a writer and promptly retconned Superboy’s human half came from Lex Luthor. Lol
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Jul 22, 2023 01:21
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There was a dc editor who was so incompetent he started and wrote a mini series parodying smallville and marvel which was all his personal grievances against marvel and everything he disliked that was bad enough they fired him right before or after it ended
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Jul 22, 2023 01:23
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side_burned posted:Joe Quesada did have his flaws as an editor but those flaws at least came from place genuine affection. But Dan DiDio just seemed hate his job, the readers, the writers, and the characters all at once. Not to mention he had some just weird hand ups about some characters like John Constantine and Swamp Thing. was didiio behind the attempt to retcon alan moores swamp thing by changing swamp thing back into a man turned into a plant monster instead of a monster that thinks he's a man
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Jul 22, 2023 01:24
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