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Post by CM Parish on Feb 20, 2014 9:45:05 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2014 9:51:47 GMT -5
Because nothing spells victory for Rock 'n' Roll like winning the Mastercard Album of the Year.
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Post by CM Parish on Feb 20, 2014 9:56:14 GMT -5
Because nothing spells victory for Rock 'n' Roll like winning the Mastercard Album of the Year. To be fair it's like winning a Grammy for album of the year. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2014 10:10:09 GMT -5
Either he is taking the piss and having a bit of fun doing some "performance art" or he is a pretentious self absorbed twat.
maybe a mix of the two perhaps
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Post by PKO on Feb 20, 2014 12:29:11 GMT -5
Great band, great album, but Alex Turner is always trying WAY too hard to be cool (while pretending to not care) and this is no different.
Cringeworthy.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2014 12:35:02 GMT -5
He dressed like a greaser David Tennant and assumed he was Dr Who.
I feel a certain anger towards the Arctic Monkeys for being the group which gets the whole stupid support whilst other smaller labels funding is cut and such. Not their fault (see: music business in a confused state right now after bag every band 90s/early 2000s) but yes, when people I know push their vacuous awards as a sign of quality I just...want to react and say "Robbie Williams won plenty of Brits, and actually had consistently strong melodies, suck on that! And somehow he was less pretentious and more imaginative than the AMs!"
I don't know, the band have sucked for many a year, I wasn't that fond of the debut but had a friend who was one of their original fan club members who dragged me to their gigs when I was young amidst their free release EPs on MySpace and they had a lot of energy. Now it's listless dull songwriting and security in being the only band who really gets a look in by a certain sect of label people. That and I swear album #2 was just a mess of bad riffs and fills, but nowadays they even seem to forget the bad riffs...
Plus the promo sucked, he's either trying to be Tennant or early 80s Bowie, and Turner isn't on par in any regard.
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Post by Steveweiser on Feb 20, 2014 12:38:45 GMT -5
Being truly rock and roll is NOT SHOWING UP TO THE BRITS, by the way.
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Post by 4real on Feb 20, 2014 13:10:42 GMT -5
Big fan of Arctic Monkeys and AM was probably my 3rd favourite album last year (behind Bring Me The Horizon's and Biffy Clyro's) but the speech was pretty cringeworthy. Obviously if you listen to mainstream radio in the U.K. you will be lucky to hear a guitar so I hear his point but he looked like a tit doing it.
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Post by The Ichi on Feb 20, 2014 15:54:40 GMT -5
Oh, piss off you giant knob.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Feb 20, 2014 17:08:40 GMT -5
I don't hate you, Harry! I don't even dislike you, in fact I like you more than most on the charts! I just dislike this idea that you're the best! The only thing you're best at is selling millions of records, and having women all over the world in love with you...and #1 records...and not a bad voice, actually...bloody hell.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Feb 20, 2014 18:47:30 GMT -5
What a cock-womble.
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Post by Mesousa287793 on Feb 20, 2014 20:25:45 GMT -5
I think he's parodying Shia LeBouf. Except proud of it.
Still, he's trying so hard to be cool, yet is still able to be more seriously taken than, well, Harry Styles.
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Post by Eunös ✈ on Feb 20, 2014 20:49:37 GMT -5
I'll give him this
If he ever joined WWE he could do some pretty good promo's
I don't see what the big deal is here personally.
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Post by Tarik Dee on Feb 20, 2014 21:19:39 GMT -5
He is cocky but I like that, I love their new album, and if you want to blame someone, blame Josh Homme.
Also:
How much have they change in 8 years.
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Post by Kalmia on Feb 21, 2014 2:37:01 GMT -5
I don't think he was being entirely serious there. At least I hope he wasn't because I thought it was hilarious.
And if he was, he picked the wrong place. The Brits typically do recognise rock bands for their top awards and have done ever since they tried to become cool back in the Britpop days. That's why Artic Monkeys have won it three times and One Direction only win made up categories or fan voted ones (not that I think they should win anything, mind)
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Feb 21, 2014 6:37:55 GMT -5
Okay, here's why I love this speech.
1. Awards shows are long and boring as f***. They're boring to watch, imagine being there.
2. Most celebrities will show up, collect their award, and f*** off. Beyoncé didn't even get an award, she just showed up, sang and then f***ed off.
3. The Monkeys, unlike most of the people who can just arrive and disappear, were the first act to play live and the last to get an award. That means they had to sit through two mind-numbingly boring hours of awards show.
4. I wouldn't be surprised if he was absolutely f***ed on drugs and/or alcohol.
Add all that up, and I think Turner was just having some fun at the show's expense, and he even stated in the after party that awards aren't the real reward for making great music, the creation of the song itself is. They will have been paid a shitload of money to show up to this thing.
I pissed myself laughing at the microphone thing, too. This was basically the only interesting thing to happen on a night of stilted boredom and mediocre performances.
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