Kid Rock vs Nickelback

So one of these songs is the worst song of the summer. (Although it should be pointed out that this Nickelback song has been kicking about for ages but I've only just heard it.).

Nickelback - Photograph


Kid Rock - All Summer Long


I thought (hoped) Kid Rock was dead or at least not producing "music". I have to say I wasn't sure this was even going to be released in the UK is there even a market for Kid Rock? I can't imagine that many people can relate to rock, rap and country mixed and All Summer Long even makes me dislike Sweet Home Alabama a bit which is clearly a hate crime in itself - that song was in Con Air for Gods sake.

I'm not going to complain about Nickelback as it's pointless all the usual critisicms apply only this time it is underpinned by me not being convinced the video is filmed in Canada (where they are from) and clearly the song is a nostalgic piece so that's just stupid.

The thing is these two songs take me back to an argument I had many years ago when the Lostprophets released Last Summer. One of my friends was arguing that the Lostprophets were corporate bastards for writing a song that was designed to cash in on the emotions of teenagers leaving their home for University. I counter argued suggesting they were merely writing a song form personal experience and it was up to the record labels as to when the song was released. This argument will clearly never be solved until I gain the ability to read minds. And when I do finally have that ability I won't be wasting it on Lostprophet based arguments. Instead I'll be finding out What women want - writing it down on a piece of paper then visiting Mel Gibson to explain how very wrong his movie was.

Anywho back to topic.
So what can we learn from Nickelback and Kid Rock's contribution to "music"? Both songs are clearly aimed at the youth pre - University cash in market, but that may be the label not the band(although it is pretty obvious that both Kid Rock and Nickelback love giant piles of money). I can also tell you for certain that - both songs contain some of the worst rhymes I have ever heard - so congratulations to both artists for that.

Also kids it is worth noting that there is no need to get nostalgic in the summer. The winter is actually the time to get nostalgic because the chances are that is when you will die. Because you'll be old and most old people die in the winter due to that year's flu.

On a cheerier note, check this video -



It appears robots have already invaded and rather than going for the Skynet evil I had heard so much about they are infact playing in a band. So that's good news for everyone worried about the robot invasion but bad news for Flight of the Conchords as they appear to have competition to their song The Humans are Dead.

Back in black

Well you'd probably thought I'd given up on this blog but you'd be wrong I was infact biding my time like a non political, non fictional Spider Jerusalem.
So there....

Anyway as you can see stuff has been changed; background colours have gone darker and pictureshave been added. Hopefully you can work out what the top two pictures mean (I plan to change them semi regularly). In the process of updating I lost the blog card which was made for me. This upset me greatly so to compensate I have added a Shenmue III placeholder - that game will exist one day - mark my words.

Another thing I'm thinking of adding on here is my own unique banner instead of the more Self Indulgent Than Myspace title so if you have any ideas send them in to the usual address (or as it is more likely you don't know where I live write in the comments section - if however you do know my address I'll accept suggestions on the back of a sealed stamped addressed envelope).

So what's been going on the world?
Well the Eurovision song contest happened. So here is my (belated) traditional Eurovision song contest rundown. The best entries (in no particular order) were Armenia, Ukraine and Greece. Here are their performances at the final:







So what have we learned?
If the UK are to stop scoring in the bottom three our entries need to feature quality drum rhythms, stupid noises and be sung by smoking hot brunettes. (Obviously I like all three of those things).

It should also be mentioned that Bosnia Herzegovina had the scariest entry.



I don't know what's going on but I think I saw something like this in a nightmare once - you know the kind of nightmare that's deeply deeply locked away in the subconscious and never spoken about for fear of re-occurring night terrors.