Comments on: Third-Rate Emo Band Making Us Feel Less Than Bubblicious

By: smackswell

smackswell — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:29:41 +0000

No airholes, no problem.

On a side note, If idolator spent all it's time knocking the performers who deserved it, they couldn't call it idolato.............

Dammit. More sarcasm. Then it's just as approapriate.

carry on.

By: Maura Johnston

Maura Johnston — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:23:19 +0000

@KurticusMaximus: Ahh, I see now. Maybe Brian and I were on some weird time-delayed wavelength today?

By: Maura Johnston

Maura Johnston — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:18:58 +0000

@KurticusMaximus: I guess I read too much music-related media, because this sorta-dumb story was everywhere! We even got a few e-mail tips about it. Anyway, I love a good pop tune, but Cartel just isn't very good -- the dude's voice sounds like he did every vocal take after taking a hit off a Chuck E. Cheese helium tank.

Also: "Worshiping Arcade Fire?" Really?

By: Niles

Niles — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 06:50:15 +0000

the arcade fire comments were sarcastic the way outer space is black or fudge tastes like chocolate. I can't stand the arcade fire and I even thought this site laid the 'arcade fire is sooooo overhyped' talking point on a bit thick.

Ripping Jack White has been done to death. He looks like Michael Jackson, he's a phony, he's a self-promoting shill with a poor man's robert plant impersonation.... I feel like I've read every one of these on another site. Or maybe I've just lived with them in my head long enough.

Anyway, there's just something so _satisfying_ about railing on these emo bands. It's like a stress ball or punching a pillow or something.

And I'd really just rather forgo mentioning the arctic monkeys at all... I'd rather speak of the stereophonics.

By: KurticusMaximus

KurticusMaximus — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 06:31:17 +0000

Alright, I don’t

By: KurticusMaximus

KurticusMaximus — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 05:03:57 +0000

Well, I don't think you guys sacrifice goats to Arcade Fire or anything (I hope not at least), but you did call the release of their last album "the greatest day of your indie-rock existence." I'm sure that was in no small part sarcastic, but still.

It just seems so easy to hate on emo bands. It's like kicking puppies. Who wear tight jeans. And those off-center lip rings that bug the shit out of me.

Let's get some challenging hating here on Idolator. Take on the Arctic Monkeys. Or, please please please, rip Jack White a new one. Seriously. Jack White is to me what Pete Wentz seems to be to every other commenter around here.

Fight the power, and declare that the Raconteurs are even crappier than Daughtry. I endorse that message.

By: KurticusMaximus

KurticusMaximus — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:53:08 +0000

Are you guys just surfing the internet now, looking for emo/pop punk bands that you can call "third rate"?

We get it. You hate any music that could ever be featured in an issue of Alternative Press. Point made. Now for crying out loud, move the hell on. Go back to worshiping Arcade Fire.

By: Bazooka Tooth

Bazooka Tooth — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:44:59 +0000

by the time launches no one is going to care?

I'd say right now is before it launches, and no one cares.

By: chocomel

chocomel — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:34:00 +0000

jeez, this one really got under your skin, eh? I think this may be the longest post on the whole site.

By: Jude

Jude — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:20:09 +0000

@horseycraze: ding!-ding!-ding! correct.

By: Snowbrigadier

Snowbrigadier — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:17:37 +0000

Do they really think this is going to go any better for them then it went for David Blaine?

I hope that New Yorkers can come up with as much interesting harassment as the Londoners. Maybe that'll be news.

By: NickEddy

NickEddy — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:10:18 +0000

Maybe the "bubble," if there is one, can be slowly filled with liquid (some extreme sports beverage, perhaps) until they all float to the top.

I can see the CNN Breaking News thing with Wolf Blitzer intoning "Some guys are being lifted out of a bubble on New York's west side...we think it's Nick Carter..."

"We're getting word that dude second left KNOWS he looks a bit like Albert Hammond Jr, and, in fact, plays it up..."

By: twenty-four hour priapism

twenty-four hour priapism — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:08:54 +0000

at the risk of sounding dismissive, who cares?

By: Hallux Valgus

Hallux Valgus — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:03:19 +0000

based on that picture, it appears that even Cartel is uninterested in Cartel.