Too funny!
Posted on 09/07/2012 9:45:19 PM PDT by bronxville
On Friday, the musical act R.E.M. sent a letter to the Fox News Channel insisting that it stop using its song “Losing My Religion” in its news coverage — specifically this week’s Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.
“We have little or no respect for their puff adder brand of reportage. Our music does not belong there,” lead singer Michael Stipe said in a statement.
Late Friday afternoon, Fox News returned the volley by arguing they were within their legal requirements and suggested it was a publicity stunt by R.E.M.....
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds50-nwAGpw
Wayne’s World - (REM Everybody Hurts Parody)
Hey, great music, lovely voice your wife has. Time to make a purchase. Thanks for the link.
Elton John does the same thing at his concerts.
R.E.M. breaks up, leaves behind career that balanced hits, integrity
Too funny!
Hellbound Train baby
Because the media keeps describing them as “artists” and they’ve started to believe it.
Not everyone that picks up a guitar, sings, dances or paints a picture is an “artist”. IMHO, most of them are just working out their psychiatric problems in public, and people are stupid enough to not realize it.
I got hooked on some Korean music (thank God for subtitles) and I have noticed a few things about them. Their girl/boy bands are almost always studio creations. They train them for sometimes years, sometimes they’ll be able to sing songs in English, Japanese and Chinese as well (!). I don’t think American rock stars have to go to school for years before they make a stage debut.
The fans in Korea are real tough, even the smallest scandal can ruin a career. (Not a real big country) A young girl band member being seen with a boy band member in a coffee shop can cause a scandal. (obviously they aren’t like Pervertland Japan- where many stars start off in U-15 (light kiddie porn in skimpy thongs) sometimes as young as 8)
Recently a band member of T-Ara tweeted something about being bullied by the other girls. A couple of band member de-friended (unfollowed?) her. Then she was fired (for making this public?). She is 18.
I think we can call some of them ‘artists’ but your right, often celebutards got rich and famous for things that are just trivial.
Folks called REM southern
Not...Yankees......none born or early reared in Dixie and it shows
I liked Radio Free Europe then they went soft.....became The Byrds part II
My wife toured in their circle of clubs around the south ....relationship with a contemporary of theirs who was big then too......she knew them.....she said Buck was a drunk but not a sissy
The rest....girly men.....she tired of the rock life.....met me and became a Williamson county housewife mommy....true story
Girls outgrow rock stars....least mine did
And Berry really wanted to be a farmer instead
And that Stipe did not really have an affair with Natalie Merchant
Yes, correct.
I paid BMI good money every year for the privilege of simply playing my radio through the PA system.
He can go pound sand...
The ironic thing is that “losing my religion” has nothing to do with ‘religion’; is a euphemism for losing one’s temper and cussing.
In the song, Michael Stipe sings the lines “That’s me in the corner/That’s me in the spotlight/Losing my religion”.
The phrase “losing my religion” is an expression from the southern region of the United States that means losing one’s temper or civility, or “being at the end of one’s rope.” Stipe told The New York Times the song was about romantic expression.
He told Q that “Losing My Religion” is about “someone who pines for someone else.
It’s unrequited love, what have you.” Stipe compared the song’s theme to “Every Breath You Take” by The Police, saying, “It’s just a classic obsession pop song.
I’ve always felt the best kinds of songs are the ones where anybody can listen to it, put themselves in it and say, ‘Yeah, that’s me.’
[was Stipe pitching a hissy fit?]
I attended an Elton John concert last March in Madison, Wisconsin with my wife (her idea...not mine...she loves him, I tolerate him). John played for about three hours and never delved into politics once. Not even homosexual issues. By the way, he sounds in concert exactly the same as he does on his records..er..recordings.
Me too, on the seeing them twice part - but it was at a time when hardly anyone outside of GA had heard of them. As in they were still on the Hib-Tone Records label. Saw them once for free in the daytime during the Piedmont Park Arts Festival in ATL, and the other time at the old 688 Club, which was a punk/new wave bar across I-75/85 from GA Tech, a block or so north of The Varsity.
That's been one my personal pet peeves for decades. I remember some musician (?) on some talk show many years ago objecting to being called an artist. He asserted that artists were people in studios who wore berets and smocks and painted pictures. He said he was a musician, not an artist. That always amused me, but it was a feeling I agree with. Personally, I'm an amateur musician...not an amateur artist.
Its why I've always respected Elton John's work. He will not agree to perform at an event unless he plays live AND he is allowed to have his sound engineer run the boards and set up the equipment. He will not agree to backing tracks and lip syncing. His philosophy is people are paying hard earned money to see him and his band perform so its gonna be good and no corners cut!
Its why he was at one end of the stadium and not the center of the field when he played at the Super Bowl. You can't set up an entire band and get a decent sound if you have to roll everything on and off in under 20 minutes.
Say what you will but he is a professional performer and for that I respect him.
Give the freaks thier song back. Can’t tell whether thier men or democratic women, SCARY!
I agree. Fox News should go to the higher ground when possible. Musicians of the Left don’t want their music associated with the Fox brand? Fine. Remove them from the rotation. Don’t give them the exposure. Don’t enable their fading/diminishing voices reach the ears of potential new audiences.
And Republican candidates running for office should seek out those [musical] voices that extol their values/beliefs, as well. Reagan got into a flap with Springsteen over “Born in the USA” when he was campaigning. I don’t know if he discontinued use of the song, or not. But he should have (the song’s title suggests something different from the actual meaning of its lyrics anyhow).
My bad that wasn’t a Super Bowl Halftime show but the Season Opener show in 2004 at Gillette Stadium.
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