H-Virus
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Post by H-Virus on Oct 21, 2017 9:14:04 GMT -5
New video series from Todd, looking at records that completely derailed a singer's career, starting off with Jewel's foray into dance-pop.
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Post by lionheart21 on Oct 21, 2017 10:22:31 GMT -5
Thats a great idea for a series. I'll have to check this out when I get home.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2017 11:15:04 GMT -5
Highly unlikely to be reviewed (and posted here), but Aaron Lewis's "conservative spoken rock" album killed his solo run quickly.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Oct 21, 2017 16:36:35 GMT -5
Does anyone think Jewel and Jennifer Lawerence look similar?
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Post by El Cokehead del Knife Fight on Oct 21, 2017 17:01:24 GMT -5
It's a great idea for a series. I'd like him to cover Make Believe by Weezer and basically anything post Adore by Smashing Pumpkins. Make Believe ruined Weezer's credibility for almost a decade and starting from Machina everyone just decided that the Pumpkins were crap. I can also see him covering the Beginning by Black Eyed Peas because that was a f***ing dire album and that plus their superbowl performance killed them. Does anyone think Jewel and Jennifer Lawerence look similar? Nope. |
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Oct 21, 2017 21:00:37 GMT -5
It's a great idea for a series. I'd like him to cover Make Believe by Weezer and basically anything post Adore by Smashing Pumpkins. Make Believe ruined Weezer's credibility for almost a decade and starting from Machina everyone just decided that the Pumpkins were crap. I can also see him covering the Beginning by Black Eyed Peas because that was a f***ing dire album and that plus their superbowl performance killed them. Does anyone think Jewel and Jennifer Lawerence look similar? Nope. It's a shame that between Adore and Teargarden people didn't really like the Pumpkins, because that's when I liked them most. The experimentation was off the scale, and Billy was happier than his depressed earlier career, or the miserable git that he became in recent years. |
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Oct 21, 2017 21:18:06 GMT -5
Was kinda hoping he would ahve mentioned in the middle of this "parody" that Jewel apparently flashed the MTV photobooth.
The day she debuted Intuition.
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Post by Duke Cameron on Oct 21, 2017 22:09:23 GMT -5
Does anyone think Jewel and Jennifer Lawerence look similar? I can see it. |
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Post by The Barber on Oct 22, 2017 7:24:12 GMT -5
Not a bad mainstream record, but it could have been WAY better.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Oct 22, 2017 9:30:36 GMT -5
It's a great idea for a series. I'd like him to cover Make Believe by Weezer and basically anything post Adore by Smashing Pumpkins. starting from Machina everyone just decided that the Pumpkins were crap. It's better regarded now, but Adore is the one he'd need to cover on this. At the time, it was most definitely what killed the Pumpkins' momentum, and was thoroughly reviled by the public upon release thanks to its switch from traditional rock sound to electronica. Machina, at the time, was considered a "too little, too late" return to form and couldn't help them recover from the disaster Adore had been for them. |
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Post by Mozenrath on Oct 22, 2017 13:00:58 GMT -5
Todd really doesn't have anything in the way of in-between feelings, does he? I say that as a guy who generally likes him, and who thinks that his smugness is probably part of his appeal, but it still feels like he's coming down a little hard on Jewel here, given he like a minute or two ago mentioned her having been homeless at one point, then just kinda ripping her apart due to a perceived lack of life experience. Though, I may be misreading his point, and it may be more him saying that's how "Intuition" comes across, rather than an indictment on the writer.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Oct 22, 2017 15:58:03 GMT -5
Yeah, I can kinda see what was going on with this album. The "cute girl singing mediocre poetry on a guitar" thing was very 90's. By the early 2000's either Jewel or her handlers concluded the style was outdated and felt repackaging her into a sex bomb pop star type that were the popular thing at the time was the best way to extend her career. But it was just a very bad fit for Jewel.
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Post by wildojinx on Oct 22, 2017 16:57:20 GMT -5
I wonder if he could cover albums that while not killing carers, were pretty big speedbumps, like Eminem's Encore, Metallica's Lulu (or even St. Anger, though most of what could be said about that album has been done by others),or Big Generator by Yes.
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Post by brody on Oct 22, 2017 19:34:41 GMT -5
Big potential with this series. Looking forward to more.
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Post by agent817 on Oct 22, 2017 21:13:14 GMT -5
Yeah, I can kinda see what was going on with this album. The "cute girl singing mediocre poetry on a guitar" thing was very 90's. By the early 2000's either Jewel or her handlers concluded the style was outdated and felt repackaging her into a sex bomb pop star type that were the popular thing at the time was the best way to extend her career. But it was just a very bad fit for Jewel. At the time, I remember thinking it was kind of an odd change, but I think I had read somewhere how it was kind of an experiment for Jewel. Then she reverted back to her folk rock roots and then went totally country after that. It is really nothing new. Remember when Jessica Simpson started dancing when she put out her second album? Though I had read that she wasn't too fond of her "Irresistable" days. |
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