quesarah | Laboratory Sociology 102

There is a silent war in our lab. It is brutally fought, hotly contested, and hard to predict. It is the War for Stereo Dominance. When one party is in charge of the stereo, the other party may engage in covert acts of sabotage (ie turning down the volume). However, a deliberate act of station-changing may only occur if no members of the rival faction are within a 100-foot radius of the stereo. This is tricky, particularly during mid-day.

Today, the Mellow Intellectuals have control of the stereo and they've tuned the "mellow rock" station. This is the station that has a heinous, unnatural love of Sheryl Crow. Hiss!

Ah good ol' Sheryl. The biggest disappointment in the so-called "adult alternative" genre. She debuted with an album or two that hinted at a modicum of songwriting talent. But since the late-90s she's degenerated into a hack who's only capable of covering lame 25 year-old ballads. Let's face it, it doesn't matter if she smokes or drinks Budweiser with Kid Rock. She's the Pat Boone of this generation; mild, inoffensive, marketable, and utterly soulless.

She, Kid, and all the other crackers who are recycling dull 70's stadium rock in order to sell album all need to go back to waiting tables, washing cars, or hauling garbage. 'Cause they sure as shit can't make music.

(and yes, the whole Lab Soc angle was to let me vent about SC. Her music is foul and makes me cranky.)

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I bet you don't like Uncle Cracker either, do you?

I never liked SC's music. Her original songs had strange lyrics and hardly had a tune. I hate that. I hate REM too with their weird ass songs.

I know you and I don't always agree on music though but hey, at least we have Sheryl. We can agree on Sheryl. :)

Not all her original stuff was tuneless: I owned Tuesday Night Music Club and Sheryl Crow and I enjoyed them both. While I didn't like every song, I could feel the care she'd taken in working on the songs and being creative. Now she really is a hack.

And yes, it's good to know we are united in our distaste for her. :)

I like Sheryl Crow...

Just don't bag on the Dixie Chicks and I'll be okay.

I won't think any less of you. I just hate hearing her cover of a trite 25 year-old ballad three times in a work day. That makes me cranky.

The Dixie Chicks rarely enter into my thoughts, except in the abstract. They speak their mind and play lots of instruments, for which I respect them.

Choo-Choo Bear sighting!

You a Choo-Choo Bear fan?

According to

kitsune76 I'm a Choo-Choo Bear owner.

You have a pink liquid cat?

No, but apparently there are other parallels with Davan. Frankly, I'm not sure whether I should be flattered or insulted.

What kind of parallels? Are you living with a Former sex-slave midget? Were you once raped by a black wiccan woman? Are you from Texas? *shudder*

Sorry, I couldn't help myself. :)

I think it was more the constant mockery and serial problem women.

Ah. Found it.

Tee hee. You poor boy...

Yup. *sob* Poor doomed me.

There used to be a site called Jump the Shark Music. It was in their words about "When your favorite artist goes downhill" It was a spin off of Jump the Shark TV. I didn't run through the music site to much but I like the TV site. At the moment I guess, they are under reconstruction and not there. But check out the TV version.

I'd heard of the site for tv shows. I'll have to search for this other site. :)

the music site is out of commission, hopefully only temporary

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