in fairness, nobody ever thought the Cheeky Girls were actually good, and Jedward and other reality show products are basically reviled by everyone who doesn't watch said shows
i think people who recognize nothing on this page either have superior tastes to the rest of us, or maybe have parents with superior tastes (Super Nanny and Wife Swap were both shows my mum liked).
To a degree, sure, though I dislike the "superior tastes to the rest of us" part (if the parents part less). Personally, I recognize a good number of these, if only because my mother has always watched or listened to a lot of TV. So I watched or heard a lot of this, but that's different from enjoying or considering them good. Since it's not like tastes always line up with what you watch, let alone with what you enjoy or consider to be of actual quality.
my dad only puts the TV on for sport, and sometimes music programmes like Jools Holland
my mum watches a mixture of drama and reality TV . . . i think she prefers the drama, the reality TV is just a question of whatever's on. She's watched less reality stuff since she got into iPlayer.
To a degree, sure, though I dislike the "superior tastes to the rest of us" part (if the parents part less). Personally, I recognize a good number of these, if only because my mother has always watched or listened to a lot of TV. So I watched or heard a lot of this, but that's different from enjoying or considering them good. Since it's not like tastes always line up with what you watch, let alone with what you enjoy or consider to be of actual quality.
True, sorry.
What i meant was most of this stuff was probably not very good, and people who don't recognize it weren't watching TV or listening to music that wasn't very good.
At the risk of sounding slightly pretentious, i think what Crazy Frog, Cheeky Girls, Jedward and to a lesser extent Cher Lloyd have in common is that they all charted on the strength of "ironic" so-bad-it's-good kitsch appeal, which might not exert so much influence on the US charts?
Then again, #Selfie made it to number 16 in the US so perhaps not.
At the risk of sounding slightly pretentious, i think what Crazy Frog, Cheeky Girls, Jedward and to a lesser extent Cher Lloyd have in common is that they all charted on the strength of "ironic" so-bad-it's-good kitsch appeal, which might not exert so much influence on the US charts?
Then again, #Selfie made it to number 16 in the US so perhaps not.
That's because the chart rules were changed in the past year or two to account for the increasing popularity of viral videos. This is why that terrible fox song was in the Top 10 of the U.S. charts for several weeks a while back, for example.
At the risk of sounding slightly pretentious, i think what Crazy Frog, Cheeky Girls, Jedward and to a lesser extent Cher Lloyd have in common is that they all charted on the strength of "ironic" so-bad-it's-good kitsch appeal, which might not exert so much influence on the US charts?
Then again, #Selfie made it to number 16 in the US so perhaps not.
That's because the chart rules were changed in the past year or two to account for the increasing popularity of viral videos. This is why that terrible fox song was in the Top 10 of the U.S. charts for several weeks a while back, for example.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Probably because I grew up in Britain and watched completely different stuff.
and Wife Swap, vaguely, but it probably had a different logo over here. or maybe it didn't, i don't remember.
And only recent pop music is shit.
At least we didn't produce Miley Cyrus or any other tween pop artist.
I surrender
i was going to get defensive on behalf of our pop music but Odradek has convinced me it's actually crap
and no our TV isn't any better
(The other Jane)
It took me until about 2012 to really get out of the habit of watching too much TV.
i think people who recognize nothing on this page either have superior tastes to the rest of us, or maybe have parents with superior tastes (Super Nanny and Wife Swap were both shows my mum liked).
my mum watches a mixture of drama and reality TV . . . i think she prefers the drama, the reality TV is just a question of whatever's on. She's watched less reality stuff since she got into iPlayer.
What i meant was most of this stuff was probably not very good, and people who don't recognize it weren't watching TV or listening to music that wasn't very good.
i think the production quality of American media tends to be slicker and shinier
At the risk of sounding slightly pretentious, i think what Crazy Frog, Cheeky Girls, Jedward and to a lesser extent Cher Lloyd have in common is that they all charted on the strength of "ironic" so-bad-it's-good kitsch appeal, which might not exert so much influence on the US charts?
Then again, #Selfie made it to number 16 in the US so perhaps not.
the line break sabotaged me i think