Comments on: Is It Too Late To Apologize For Chris Cornell’s Solo Career? http://idolator.com/398809/is-it-too-late-to-apologize-for-chris-cornells-solo-career Music News, Reviews, and Gossip on Idolator.com Sat, 26 May 2012 16:11:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/398809/is-it-too-late-to-apologize-for-chris-cornells-solo-career/comment-page-1#comment-647582 Anonymous Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:44:27 +0000 http://1670ddb80e19600c9031059358076dba#comment-647582 <p>It's to Cornell's credit that he WANTS to keep working. He's got enough money to live off of for the rest of his life, but for him, recording, touring, and writing IS his life, and he wants to keep at it. If Timbaland can help him do that, then so be it, but although this is the most sure-fire success of 2009 (you can put money on it breaking sales records) it also confirms in the mind of the common people how disconnected the big marketers are from the sincere pulse of whatever is going on street level.</p> <p>You want to hear a singer with no voice left, just look at Johnny Rotten. Cornell CAN still uncork a raging vocal when he decides he wants to. He just seldom wants to.</p> <p>And I LIKED "Euphoria Morning" goddamn it.</p> <p>And Timbaland sucks.</p> It’s to Cornell’s credit that he WANTS to keep working. He’s got enough money to live off of for the rest of his life, but for him, recording, touring, and writing IS his life, and he wants to keep at it. If Timbaland can help him do that, then so be it, but although this is the most sure-fire success of 2009 (you can put money on it breaking sales records) it also confirms in the mind of the common people how disconnected the big marketers are from the sincere pulse of whatever is going on street level.

You want to hear a singer with no voice left, just look at Johnny Rotten. Cornell CAN still uncork a raging vocal when he decides he wants to. He just seldom wants to.

And I LIKED “Euphoria Morning” goddamn it.

And Timbaland sucks.

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/398809/is-it-too-late-to-apologize-for-chris-cornells-solo-career/comment-page-1#comment-647592 Anonymous Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:27:39 +0000 http://1670ddb80e19600c9031059358076dba#comment-647592 <p>Give Cornell a little bit of credit. The biggest complaint about <i>Carry On</i> was that it was that it showed off a bunch of different styles but had no direction. At least by hiring Timbaland we know what direction its headed, and it wasn't even the worst possible direction (You don't think there's more where the "Billie Jean" cover came from?).</p> <p>If you want a scapegoat on this, blame Timbaland for trying to steal this song to score a hit for himself (See Also: "Apologize") or Ryan Tedder, who apparently helped write the song. Dear Ryan Tedder: before you help established artists write their songs, you might wanna make your own band's songs suck a bit less.</p> <p>==TJ==</p> Give Cornell a little bit of credit. The biggest complaint about Carry On was that it was that it showed off a bunch of different styles but had no direction. At least by hiring Timbaland we know what direction its headed, and it wasn’t even the worst possible direction (You don’t think there’s more where the “Billie Jean” cover came from?).

If you want a scapegoat on this, blame Timbaland for trying to steal this song to score a hit for himself (See Also: “Apologize”) or Ryan Tedder, who apparently helped write the song. Dear Ryan Tedder: before you help established artists write their songs, you might wanna make your own band’s songs suck a bit less.

==TJ==

]]> By: KinetiQ http://idolator.com/398809/is-it-too-late-to-apologize-for-chris-cornells-solo-career/comment-page-1#comment-647602 KinetiQ Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:54:40 +0000 http://1670ddb80e19600c9031059358076dba#comment-647602 <p>"You may remember Chris Cornell as the frontman and lead singer of Audioslave."</p> <p>Man, that's some good trolling there.</p> <p>@<a href="#c6770935">Ned Raggett</a>: That's fantastic. I would've gone straight for "Like Suicide" myself but perhaps that's too obvious...</p> “You may remember Chris Cornell as the frontman and lead singer of Audioslave.”

Man, that’s some good trolling there.

@Ned Raggett: That’s fantastic. I would’ve gone straight for “Like Suicide” myself but perhaps that’s too obvious…

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/398809/is-it-too-late-to-apologize-for-chris-cornells-solo-career/comment-page-1#comment-647612 Anonymous Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:25:04 +0000 http://1670ddb80e19600c9031059358076dba#comment-647612 <p>What radio format does this even target? Doubt modern rock stations are gonna play it. Top 40?</p> What radio format does this even target? Doubt modern rock stations are gonna play it. Top 40?

]]> By: Ned Raggett http://idolator.com/398809/is-it-too-late-to-apologize-for-chris-cornells-solo-career/comment-page-1#comment-647622 Ned Raggett Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:03:34 +0000 http://1670ddb80e19600c9031059358076dba#comment-647622 <p><i>I was slipping through the cracks<br> Of a dying fame<br> I was totally trading on my good name<br> Now Timbaland's talking about a<br> Comeback song<br> And Idolator said 'This is totally wrong'</i></p> <p><i>And my talent was burned out yesterday<br> Like Maura's past had died<br> And I've been caught in a shit sellout</i></p> I was slipping through the cracks
Of a dying fame
I was totally trading on my good name
Now Timbaland’s talking about a
Comeback song
And Idolator said ‘This is totally wrong’

And my talent was burned out yesterday
Like Maura’s past had died
And I’ve been caught in a shit sellout

]]> By: Charlie Kerfelds Jetsons Tee http://idolator.com/398809/is-it-too-late-to-apologize-for-chris-cornells-solo-career/comment-page-1#comment-647632 Charlie Kerfelds Jetsons Tee Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:46:28 +0000 http://1670ddb80e19600c9031059358076dba#comment-647632 <p>Is that "Blue Steel?"</p> Is that “Blue Steel?”

]]> By: Dead Air ummm Dead Air http://idolator.com/398809/is-it-too-late-to-apologize-for-chris-cornells-solo-career/comment-page-1#comment-647642 Dead Air ummm Dead Air Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:38:58 +0000 http://1670ddb80e19600c9031059358076dba#comment-647642 <P>Oh, he should have apologized after he made "Euphoria Morning", a concept album I assume was made about his favorite flavor of herbal tea.</P> Oh, he should have apologized after he made “Euphoria Morning”, a concept album I assume was made about his favorite flavor of herbal tea.

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