Forum Overview :: No Stairway to Heaven :: Also bad: Counting Crows plus Vanessa Carlton plus Joni Mitchell

[quote name="Fussbett"][quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"]I don't see how pop music, beyond boy bands and the Spears/Aguilera segment, survives this song. Worse, I don't see how it *should* survive, or that it <i>deserves</i> to. If 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' killed off hair metal, then surely 'Blinded' here has done the same to pop -- and worse, it did it from within.[/quote] I think middle of the road "pop rock" was already well dead (Pop Rocks, however, remain live and LETHAL if combined with Pepsi) before Third Eye Blind's new song got to the party. If anything, Linkin Korn Biscuit and neo-grunge Nickel Creed already killed it. I asked Semisonic and Matthew Sweet if pop rock music was going to make a comeback. They're getting back to me on it. Anyway, I had a similar rock music meltdown the other day when I saw the video for Counting Crows with Vanessa Carlton doing Joni Mitchell's crusty whore of a folk song "Big Yellow Taxi". As if that wasn't offensive enough, the song was apparently for the soundtrack to the vapour movie "Two Weeks Notice", so interwoven between shots of musicians trying to kill music forever was scenes of Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant being cute and charming. It was as if somewhere my arch-nemesis had gathered together all the anti-Fussbett elements in the universe in a final attempt to kill me once and for all. And it's almost worked. I had to listen to Burnt By The Sun for 3 hours straight just to snap out of the daze. This brings up another concept I always find amusing. Remember bands like the Gin Blossoms? They were all over the goddamn place at one point. Was anyone a Gin Blossoms fan? No. You could never track one down! Who's buying that boring shit? I developed a theory that some of these company/radio-pushed bands had no actual fans but instead were successful because of birthday and Christmas presents. That 300,000 unit sales figure is all from well-meaning relatives buying safe gifts for receipients who say "thanks", and listen to the album's singles twice before leaving it in the bottom of their CD collection forever. Thus, once the record company stops their money-backed push of said band, they disappear off the face of the Earth. No fan base.[/quote]