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15th May 2008, 09:36 AM
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| Gear nut  Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto, Ontario
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  | why was this song a hit? to the current state of the music industry; i have a question: i doubt i'm alone when i say that "soulja boy crank that" or whatever it's called is possibly one of the worst songs ever released, but why was this a hit? why was this song above kenye west's "stronger" on the billboards when there is such a durastic difference in production quality and artistic merit? what do you all think is the marketing budget for this shit? how many independent unsigned artists could press 50 copies of their cd with that aomunt? is this possibly part of the reason no makes money in music? because the majors blow it on this stuff? the lyrics are garb and it's not even that good sonically. are the majors just doing this shit to try and milk as much loot as they can i've heard its real cheap to book this artist...why would that be when he's been so "successful"? wait!! why is he successful again!?!?!? damn! now we're going in circles! just like our future generations will be doing if we keep polluting their brains with this crap. thoughts? thanks 4 listening. PS. fuuuuuuuuuccccckkkkk YOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUU! 
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15th May 2008, 12:05 PM
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| Gear addict Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Sydney
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| The Vietnamese have a term for this stuff - "American cultural pollution". |
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15th May 2008, 01:15 PM
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15th May 2008, 01:35 PM
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| Gear maniac Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Pawtucket, RI
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| after careful deliberation, i've recently decided that "Crank That" is the worse song ever "written". i think if a major spends an ungodly amount of money to present a song as a hit, people don't even listen to it. they just assume it's a hit, and do the stupid dance. too bad the dance doesn't involve jumping off a bridge, then the problem would solve itself. i wouldn't spend too much time thinking about it, you'll just get a headache. why was "Meet The Spartans" the number one movie at the box office a few months ago? why is the Eagles Greatest Hits the number one selling album of all time? it goes on and on... |
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15th May 2008, 02:08 PM
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
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| omg...this song was made by the guy who just learned PT or what?! no...thats being to polite. And the looped vocals which were taken from a wigger party.
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15th May 2008, 07:47 PM
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15th May 2008, 08:08 PM
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| Gear nut  Join Date: Jan 2005
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| Please post any/all charting singles that you self-produced at age 17 for comparison. Combine Interscope's top notch marketing with non-sensical lyrics that make tween/teen girls wanna dance = hit. |
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15th May 2008, 09:36 PM
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| Gear maniac  Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Nevada
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| I thought Travis Barker's (I think that's his name) vid on the drums was awesome. |
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15th May 2008, 09:42 PM
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Cleveland, Ohio
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| Because someone has to be a one hit wonder.
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15th May 2008, 09:42 PM
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| Gear maniac  Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Miami, Florida
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16th May 2008, 04:52 AM
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| Gear maniac Join Date: Apr 2006
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| << I thought Travis Barker's (I think that's his name) vid on the drums was awesome. >> True.. almost made me like the song. << Because someone has to be a one hit wonder. >> Sadly he's had some more. Not sure how high they've charted, but I've seen other videos. |
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16th May 2008, 06:21 AM
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Orlando/San Fernando Valley
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and ya know what,..i hate songs like that too,..but guess what,... i HATED all of fergies song when they started getting play,..now gues who owns the Cd,.. that's right,..ME i'm still young enough to see just how horrible the youth really takes their music,...and trust me, noone actually liked that song,..they all go "hahaha oh man, here's that corny song, :does dance: hahaha, oh wow, what a dumb song, hahaha, yeah i bought the CD, hahaha, man i'm so drunk i should og get pregnant" ,....that's verbatim wht happens.
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16th May 2008, 06:43 AM
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| Hit Predictor rated it at 71% The Timbaland/Keri Hilson track, The Way I Are only scored 66% No one ever said that a song had to be good to be a hit.
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18th May 2008, 01:30 AM
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18th May 2008, 04:52 AM
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| even dave chappelle could make funnier music.
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18th May 2008, 06:18 AM
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18th May 2008, 06:12 PM
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
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| haha. yeah, that was the point. I'm not going to defend myself on this one
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18th May 2008, 06:33 PM
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