Posted on 11/08/2015 7:40:32 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Okay, so what the hell was that bizarro world singing act on SNL last night? Was it a comedy skit or a real singing act? A face almost completely covered with yellow and blue hair and nearby another yellow/blue hair being acting as if on an acid trip.
I think the name of the act was Cia or was it Chia as in Chia Pet. Do people actually PAY to see/listen to this act?
Though, at least she was dressed and not dry humping inanimate objects.
So Donald Trump goes on SNL and all the old cranks here who are usually in their beds by 9pm on a Saturday night appear to be astonished as what passes for entertainment with the “young folks” these days.
I’m thinking this must be how my grandfather must have reacted back in 1964 when those long-haired weirdos from England came on the television. He was probably similarly perplexed and wondering what the heck happened to real music like Mitch Miller and the Andrew Sisters.
(But you just KNOW Laz would hit it.)
I thought her voice was pretty good, as was the music itself; certainly not my cup of tea.
However, in the realm of art, there is better and worse that doesn’t depend on genre. The performance art part of the show was silly and contrived, and I agree that she would have done better to let the music speak for itself.
Don't know how young you mean, but I've got one heck of a good demographic to question.
From my 8 year old GD: "Who?"
From my 13 year GS: "Who?"
From my 16 year old GD: "Who?"
From my 18 year old GS: "Who?"
From my own 25 year old daughter: "Who?"
And last, but not least, from my 2 year old GS: "Gimme tractor, Opa."
So, the consensus I shall take away from the "young folks" is that she is a member of the old band "The Who".
I think.
You expect your grandchildren to reveal their musical tastes to you?
If my grandfather asked me if I knew who The Rolling Stones were I’d give him the old blank stare and I’d be concerned he was conspiring with my parents to confiscate my clandestine record collection.
“So, the consensus I shall take away from the “young folks” is that she is a member of the old band “The Who”.
I think. “
That made me smile!
Oi! According to wiki, she is a cousin of former Newsboy Peter Furler. In this case the apple must have fallen far from the tree.
Maybe it was carried away by an Australian swallow (simple matter of weight ratios, and all that)
But they aren’t migratory
This song by the female singer with the bi-polar wig was contrived by the art director and/or the costume designer to BE silly, eye-caching and out-of-the-norm.
This late, late show is aimed at a trendy, cutting-edge-humor younger audience, as are the commercials....not to a traditional, sometimes fuddy-duddy (gasp!) audience such as many folks on conservative forums.
In our own younger and middle-aged days we watched "Leave it to Beaver", then went to bed. The younger generation stays up way late to watch "SNL".
They have disposable income, they watch the ads, they buy, it's THEIR time slot for fun and entertainment suited to THEIR tastes...in short, it's capitalism working as it's meant to. No one is forced to watch the show if it's not to their particular tastes.
All that being said, the very talented cast and Trump did the best they could with the lame material handed them...the writing stunk. What's happened to all the brilliant comedy writing that used to emanate from New York City for decades and decades?
Sad.
Leni
I do see your point.
And with the fact that they now listen to music with litty-bitty thinga-ma-jigs stuck in their ears all the time, I have no real idea of what they do listen to.
In my day, it was wide open...cranking those Bose 900's to one point below max, driven through a Kenwood Amp, with a Marantz Direct-Drive 6300 turntable, upon which turned a piece of vinyl plastic with little squiggly lines upon it which translated out to Iron Butterfly enthusiastically banging out In-a-gada-da-vida, baby!...damn sure meant I couldn't hide my taste in music.
In fact, people in the next county knew what my music was.
My 20y y/o son (a Trump fan who is studying music production & business) thought Sia had a good voice and costuming but said the dancer was “offputting”. He also thought that including Trump in the “Drake dancing” skit was an example of crossover marketing to youth that conservative candidates should do more of.
Unlike Lady GagMe, though, this performer can walk down the street at will with no need of a bodyguard or a posse, because no one knows what she looks like!
I’m always up that late, and used to watch SNL from the time of the first cast. I stopped after the 90’s because it just wasn’t as funny. However, I don’t think that it’s true that the problem with much of modern entertainment is just that only the hip can appreciate it. There has been a degrading of music just like the rest of culture. The problem may be that the artists themselves don’t believe in the music; everything is irony, because there are no truths. Back in the 70’s there were Bowie and Lou Reed, but most artists were into music because they were into the beauty and power of what they were doing (and the chicks were great)[Almost Famous reference]
In other words a total trainwreck.
As for the Asian woman who threw herself all over the floor and emoted through the songs- I haven't been so amused in ages.
The point of my rants above was that although a few certain skits and numbers were funny and well-done, the whole show has been trashed as a real horror...when, in fact, it's a program that's beamed to a younger, more cynical generation who ENJOY the show's type of non-traditional, sometimes undecipherable humor, in contrast to what WE like to watch and hear....and throwing the baby out with the bathwater is really not fair to the show's young comedic artistes who performed their gigs earnestly and well.
I've enjoyed "chatting" with you on this subject very much.
Leni
“Gets the hoity toity art crowd. “
The “Artsy Fartsies?”
“What’s happened to all the brilliant comedy writing that used to emanate from New York “
Al Franken left the show. 8^)
I thought she is blind.
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