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Third Eye Blind's charming new single! by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/16/2003, 2:46pm PDT
Seriously, this has to be an intentional effort to kill pop music out of spite. I don't know what else the fuck is going on. I caught the last thirty seconds of it on the way home from work yesterday. It was just that idiot singing "WHEN I SEE YOU... WHEN I SEE YOU" for the entire time. The song ended, and the DJ made fun of it. 30 seconds isn't that long, so I thought nothing of how repetitive it was.

However, I just went to the mall for lunch. It takes me two minutes to get out of my parking lot and to where I turn to get to the mall. This song was playing and for the entire two minutes it was nothing but that guy chanting "WHEN I SEE YOU." I didn't have any real opinion of these assholes before this song -- the uncut version of 'Semi-Charmed Life I thought was OK, but everything else they've done (and I'm reluctantly admitting that I do otherwise pretty much dig what is called "pop punk" or emo) was unremarkable. I know their second CD sold worse than their first one, but the tactic they have employed to get back to where they were selling is apparently sko Scorched Earth "annoy the entire fucking country" plan.

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 deserves 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.


the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey!



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Third Eye Blind's charming new single! by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/16/2003, 2:46pm PDT NEW
    pop is the soy of music by foogla 04/16/2003, 3:36pm PDT NEW
    Also bad: Counting Crows plus Vanessa Carlton plus Joni Mitchell by Fussbett 04/16/2003, 6:26pm PDT NEW
        OMG Vanessa Carlton BONER by Bill Dungsroman 04/16/2003, 6:35pm PDT NEW
        All the albums I've bought, in order. The horror . . . the horror. by Senor Barborito 04/16/2003, 10:43pm PDT NEW
            Also an ex-Gin Blossoms fan (also SB's MUST-HEAR list) by FoK 04/17/2003, 9:53am PDT NEW
                Re: Also an ex-Gin Blossoms fan (also SB's MUST-HEAR list) by Senor Barborito 04/17/2003, 10:50am PDT NEW
                    Re: Also an ex-Gin Blossoms fan (also SB's MUST-HEAR list) by FoK 04/17/2003, 11:49am PDT NEW
                        Re: Also an ex-Gin Blossoms fan (also SB's MUST-HEAR list) by RoryleeLuloff 04/17/2003, 12:25pm PDT NEW
                            uroboros? How effete of you. NT by jeep 04/17/2003, 1:57pm PDT NEW
                        Not an ex-Gin Blossoms fan. Some new-ish records are good, too. by jeep 04/17/2003, 2:17pm PDT NEW
                            D-d-dismemberment Plan did WHAT? by Fullofkittens 04/17/2003, 2:25pm PDT NEW
                                The made one more record, "Change," and then they broke up. NT by jeep 04/17/2003, 2:29pm PDT NEW
                                Death Cab has effectively stopped playing together, too, chief. NT by Senor Barborito 04/17/2003, 2:38pm PDT NEW
                                    Damn! Well, at least Burning Airlines is still together! NT by Fullofkittens 04/17/2003, 3:16pm PDT NEW
                                    Wait, Death Cab for Cutie broke up?! Or are they on sko gay 'hiatus?' Motherfuck NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/17/2003, 3:21pm PDT NEW
                                        There's nothing official, they're just not doing anything together at the moment NT by Senor Barborito 04/17/2003, 9:06pm PDT NEW
                Re: Also an ex-Gin Blossoms fan (also SB's MUST-HEAR list) by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/17/2003, 2:07pm PDT NEW
                    That was the name of the single, yeah. Fuck now I can't get it out of my head. NT by Senor Barborito 04/17/2003, 2:11pm PDT NEW
                    Re: Also an ex-Gin Blossoms fan (also SB's MUST-HEAR list) by FullofSemen 04/17/2003, 2:16pm PDT NEW
                        My theory, revised. by Fussbett 04/17/2003, 8:31pm PDT NEW
                            All the cars with rear-wheel drive, I've bought, in order . . . by Senor Barborito 04/17/2003, 9:13pm PDT NEW
                                My favourite SB post ever. Funny. NT by Fussbett 04/18/2003, 3:37am PDT NEW
                                I DIDN'T -nt- by Entropy Stew 04/19/2003, 5:36pm PDT NEW
                                    FUCKDAMN THREADS NT by Entropy Stew 04/19/2003, 5:36pm PDT NEW
                                        MAYBE YOU SHOULD HAVE PROGRAMMED A FILTER THAT MAKES POSTS GO WHERE THEY BELONG NT by creativepig 04/21/2003, 2:17pm PDT NEW
                                            MAYBE I'LL FILTER MY COFFEE THROUGH YOUR MUCOUS FUCKING MEMBRANES, LOVEY NT by Entropy Stew 04/21/2003, 7:59pm PDT NEW
                I HAVE LISTENED TO THE VELVET TEEN, GOD FUCK IT by Alternate789 04/17/2003, 10:03pm PDT NEW
                    ...*blink* by Fullofkittens 04/18/2003, 12:01am PDT NEW
                        A Reply; and also A Special Message to Barbie and GYBE! Fans by creativepig 04/21/2003, 2:31pm PDT NEW
                            Re: A Reply; and also A Special Message to Barbie and GYBE! Fans by Alternate789 04/21/2003, 8:30pm PDT NEW
                                The True Face by Fullofrenes 04/21/2003, 10:46pm PDT NEW
                                    Holy fucking GAY, sir. by Senor Barborito 04/22/2003, 3:20am PDT NEW
                                        Re: Holy fucking GAY, sir. by FoK 04/22/2003, 7:30am PDT NEW
                                            Fag NT by MOAB 04/22/2003, 8:01am PDT NEW
                                            "Men" like you built the atom bomb. by Senor Barborito 04/22/2003, 11:14am PDT NEW
                                            So, what you're saying is that you sucked intentionally in order to be edgy? NT by Entropy Stew 04/22/2003, 1:10pm PDT NEW
                                                That's what my brother's band did. by Chairman Mao 04/22/2003, 1:14pm PDT NEW
                                                    That's also what the sex pistols did. by MOAB 04/22/2003, 1:31pm PDT NEW
                                                        and Steely Dan by veronica 04/22/2003, 7:28pm PDT NEW
                                                            HAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAAHAHAHHAAHAHAAAAAAAAHAhahahahaHHAHAHASHAHHAHAHAAHA NT by Entropy Stew 04/22/2003, 9:08pm PDT NEW
                                                                Poor ES, not a Dan fan by veronica 04/22/2003, 10:06pm PDT NEW
                                                                    George Carlin also. by Jhoh Creexul 04/23/2003, 12:49am PDT NEW
                                                No. by Fullofkittens 04/24/2003, 4:53pm PDT NEW
                                        On the contrary, by creativepig 04/23/2003, 9:15pm PDT NEW
    Re: Third Eye Blind's charming new single! by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/23/2021, 9:27pm PDT NEW
        We were all so much darker and grittier in 2003 by Roop 05/24/2021, 7:23pm PDT NEW
 
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