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Post by Orange on May 16, 2011 13:30:03 GMT -5
It's kind of hard to explain, but you hear it a lot in modern pop music. When the singer will be singing a note, and the note dies down or shuts down, that gets annoying after a while.
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Post by bibboid on May 16, 2011 15:46:59 GMT -5
On television, I hate when sportscasters refer to the New York Giants as the New York 'football' Giants.
As if the baseball team just left town a few years ago.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2011 15:55:03 GMT -5
Moments of silence on albums. When there's a song that the band really must love to death because they plunk in 2-3 minutes of plain silence after it so you can just sit there and think about the masterpiece you just listened to.
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Post by darthalexander on May 16, 2011 16:03:08 GMT -5
When I go on my lunch break now I hear a top 40 music station played over the speakers (in the place that I go to). They play the same exact songs every damn day, which I can understand since it's a top 40 station. What gets me though is a huge chunk of the songs have this horrible sound to them. I forget what it's called but everything sounds so electronic. All the voices seem to have been passed through a machine and you get these really weird sounding vocals.
For example, that piece of crap remake "I Had The Time Of My Life" sounds like two droids singing rather than real singers.
I cannot stand what they've done to music today. THIS is what's popular now? Ick.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on May 16, 2011 16:14:07 GMT -5
When really cliche songs are used for montages. Also, ANY time an alarm clock or similar sounding sound effect is used. Having less than four hours of sleep as many times as I have, you really grow to hate that noise.
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Post by The Ichi on May 16, 2011 16:17:07 GMT -5
Horror movies: relying on bitch-ass jump scares instead of, you know, being legitimately scary. See the Nightmare on Elm Street remake for a fantastic example of this.
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Post by Young Game on May 16, 2011 16:33:23 GMT -5
When I go on my lunch break now I hear a top 40 music station played over the speakers (in the place that I go to). They play the same exact songs every damn day, which I can understand since it's a top 40 station. What gets me though is a huge chunk of the songs have this horrible sound to them. I forget what it's called but everything sounds so electronic. All the voices seem to have been passed through a machine and you get these really weird sounding vocals. For example, that piece of crap remake "I Had The Time Of My Life" sounds like two droids singing rather than real singers. I cannot stand what they've done to music today. THIS is what's popular now? Ick. Auto-Tuning.
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Post by Mozenrath on May 16, 2011 16:33:56 GMT -5
Singers who make the national anthem 45 minutes long. SING IT, then sit down.
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Post by Orange on May 16, 2011 16:45:29 GMT -5
On television, I hate when sportscasters refer to the New York Giants as the New York 'football' Giants. As if the baseball team just left town a few years ago. Yeah I hate that as well. As if you really might get the two confused.
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Post by Mozenrath on May 16, 2011 17:37:54 GMT -5
Covers of Hallelujah. EVERYONE records it.
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Post by strykerdarksilence on May 16, 2011 18:09:20 GMT -5
Definitely this. Most pop songs on the radio don't even have a distinct melody now. Yep, this, a million times over. Honestly, it's a mutation of the Whitney Houston Syndrome, where you must cram 94 syllables into every two syllable word, and make sure each instance covers the entirity of your vocal range. Impressive feat? Sure, the first time, but after that I want to donate my eardrums to starving children in Kenya. God, I LOATHE that. "But she's got such an impressive range!" "So? I don't need to hear it every song. Less is more!" And also, it clashes with something that I learned while being in the school choir as a kid, with an old school singing teacher. The line she used for hitting a note was "You pick up the glass and you place it on the shelf. You don't push it up THROUGH the shelf." Hitting a note so high only dogs on the moon can hear it is fine and dandy, but it;s not really hitting it if you have to go through every note and variation on it to get there.
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Post by Fiddleford H. McGucket on May 16, 2011 18:17:26 GMT -5
Nobody takes the time either to choreograph or shoot a decent fight scene anymore. It's all jump-cuts at every punch, no more letting the camera linger in one position to actually see the punch "connect". It's very disorienting, made far worse by the fact that since it is genrally all CGI anyway, you shouldn't HAVE to worry about an actor or stuntperson flubbing too badly and actually hitting someone.
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Post by Mozenrath on May 16, 2011 18:22:53 GMT -5
Nobody takes the time either to choreograph or shoot a decent fight scene anymore. It's all jump-cuts at every punch, no more letting the camera linger in one position to actually see the punch "connect". It's very disorienting, made far worse by the fact that since it is genrally all CGI anyway, you shouldn't HAVE to worry about an actor or stuntperson flubbing too badly and actually hitting someone. Case in point: Watch the first Ninja Turtles movie. That movie's fight scenes are way better than one would expect. Most movies today just don't come close. If you're not Batman, you really don't have an excuse to have jump cuts and terrible lighting to cover what you do. At least he has the excuse that he is supposed to be getting the jump on people, and because in reality, getting the cape to do what they want is likely a pain in the ass.
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Post by Crazy Diamond on May 16, 2011 22:52:39 GMT -5
When I go on my lunch break now I hear a top 40 music station played over the speakers (in the place that I go to). They play the same exact songs every damn day, which I can understand since it's a top 40 station. What gets me though is a huge chunk of the songs have this horrible sound to them. I forget what it's called but everything sounds so electronic. All the voices seem to have been passed through a machine and you get these really weird sounding vocals. For example, that piece of crap remake "I Had The Time Of My Life" sounds like two droids singing rather than real singers. I cannot stand what they've done to music today. THIS is what's popular now? Ick. You can thank companies like Clear Channel and the music industry for those. Has there ever been a remix which was better than the original song? I can't think of one. I don't understand why artists need to take a perfectly fine song and ruin it by adding more instruments or backup singers or guest rappers to it.
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Post by Young Game on May 16, 2011 23:05:08 GMT -5
Has there ever been a remix which was better than the original song? I can't think of one.
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Post by CaptainFall on May 17, 2011 3:16:36 GMT -5
Crap accents. There's enough actors in Hollywood to find somebody who can do a credible accent for the character you have.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2011 3:26:39 GMT -5
Has there ever been a remix which was better than the original song? I can't think of one. I don't understand why artists need to take a perfectly fine song and ruin it by adding more instruments or backup singers or guest rappers to it. Redanka's "Kick the Darkness Vocal Remix" of U2's "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight" is MILES better than the original.
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Post by Johnny Truant on May 17, 2011 3:33:07 GMT -5
Horror movies: relying on bitch-ass jump scares instead of, you know, being legitimately scary. See the Nightmare on Elm Street remake for a fantastic example of this. Insidious is the most recent example I can think of. Another thing that bothers me in music: EVERY beat in the rap music that comes on the radio sounds the same. It's like...uh...DUH DUNN DUH DUH DUNN DUH I don't know how to put it. Also, dear god, the auto-tune...
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Post by noleafclover1980 on May 17, 2011 5:16:40 GMT -5
When I go on my lunch break now I hear a top 40 music station played over the speakers (in the place that I go to). They play the same exact songs every damn day, which I can understand since it's a top 40 station. What gets me though is a huge chunk of the songs have this horrible sound to them. I forget what it's called but everything sounds so electronic. All the voices seem to have been passed through a machine and you get these really weird sounding vocals. For example, that piece of crap remake "I Had The Time Of My Life" sounds like two droids singing rather than real singers. I cannot stand what they've done to music today. THIS is what's popular now? Ick. You can thank companies like Clear Channel and the music industry for those. Has there ever been a remix which was better than the original song? I can't think of one. I don't understand why artists need to take a perfectly fine song and ruin it by adding more instruments or backup singers or guest rappers to it.
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Post by El Hijo De Slapnuts on May 17, 2011 5:28:55 GMT -5
See the Nightmare on Elm Street remake for a fantastic example of this. Insidious is the most recent example I can think of. Another thing that bothers me in music: EVERY beat in the rap music that comes on the radio sounds the same. It's like...uh...DUH DUNN DUH DUH DUNN DUH I don't know how to put it. Also, dear god, the auto-tune... THIS,THIS,THIS! I know that I'm a metalhead,and tha
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