Comments on: The True American Idol, Corgan Speaks Out On Pumpkins Suit, and New Music.. http://www.kingsofar.com/2008/03/26/the-true-american-idol-corgan-speaks-out-on-pumpkins-suit-and-new-music/ Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:46:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jon Cole http://www.kingsofar.com/2008/03/26/the-true-american-idol-corgan-speaks-out-on-pumpkins-suit-and-new-music/#comment-127113 Jon Cole Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:32:31 +0000 http://www.kingsofar.com/2008/03/26/the-true-american-idol-corgan-speaks-out-on-pumpkins-suit-and-new-music/#comment-127113 I think she looked great in the swimsuit, personally. In most shots, at least. And I think the prank war between her & Mayer showed a lot of personality on both ends... you know he had come onstage during her set in a bear suit earlier in the tour. What I fear is that in this era of blogs and Best Week Ever, everyone will soon be afraid to do anything out of the ordinary. If you have one ounce of renown, if you find yourself to be a common point of reference to any group of people, large or small, all of the sudden every blogger, disc jockey, & VH1 "comedian" has you in their sights, hoping to showcase their brilliant whit at your expense. Could you imagine what would be said of Bonham riding through a hotel in a motorcycle? Or Rick Allen rejoining Def Leppard? Rock stars are supposed to be outrageous, but you can't be a rock star anymore because rock stars are no longer untouchable. Everyone wants to generate their own fame, they want to steal the renown of the rock star. That's a huge can of worms, of course, which we can entertain or not, but if Sheryl Crow is a fame whore, what does that make all of the pseudo-pundits who are raking in the cash at her expense? You know perezhilton.com is valued @ $48m according to 24/7 Wall Street. Personally, I think everyone's just trying to twist everything she does into the most humiliating thing possible. As for the Crash Moderns, can you develop emotion & soul? Do we take the artists who look good & maybe have a catchy hook & throw them in a room with a great producer & a Bob Dylan record & hope for the best? I think it's perfectly reasonable to take their song & compare it to not only Sheryl Crow's first record, but Bob Dylan's first record & the Beatles' first record & the Who's first record. And, in my personal subjective opinion, they don't compare. I think she looked great in the swimsuit, personally. In most shots, at least. And I think the prank war between her & Mayer showed a lot of personality on both ends… you know he had come onstage during her set in a bear suit earlier in the tour.

What I fear is that in this era of blogs and Best Week Ever, everyone will soon be afraid to do anything out of the ordinary. If you have one ounce of renown, if you find yourself to be a common point of reference to any group of people, large or small, all of the sudden every blogger, disc jockey, & VH1 “comedian” has you in their sights, hoping to showcase their brilliant whit at your expense. Could you imagine what would be said of Bonham riding through a hotel in a motorcycle? Or Rick Allen rejoining Def Leppard? Rock stars are supposed to be outrageous, but you can’t be a rock star anymore because rock stars are no longer untouchable. Everyone wants to generate their own fame, they want to steal the renown of the rock star.

That’s a huge can of worms, of course, which we can entertain or not, but if Sheryl Crow is a fame whore, what does that make all of the pseudo-pundits who are raking in the cash at her expense? You know perezhilton.com is valued @ $48m according to 24/7 Wall Street.

Personally, I think everyone’s just trying to twist everything she does into the most humiliating thing possible.

As for the Crash Moderns, can you develop emotion & soul? Do we take the artists who look good & maybe have a catchy hook & throw them in a room with a great producer & a Bob Dylan record & hope for the best? I think it’s perfectly reasonable to take their song & compare it to not only Sheryl Crow’s first record, but Bob Dylan’s first record & the Beatles’ first record & the Who’s first record. And, in my personal subjective opinion, they don’t compare.

]]> By: koar http://www.kingsofar.com/2008/03/26/the-true-american-idol-corgan-speaks-out-on-pumpkins-suit-and-new-music/#comment-127103 koar Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:34:55 +0000 http://www.kingsofar.com/2008/03/26/the-true-american-idol-corgan-speaks-out-on-pumpkins-suit-and-new-music/#comment-127103 Jon, like I always say, music is subjective. The taste in music is usually an extension of ones personality. I find Sheryl Crow music as bland as an insurance seminar. If you think her new single that works perfectly for an AT&T commercial exciting, then you are a sheltered child my friend. Nothing wrong with being sheltered though. As far as the crash moderns, they are a developing artist never meant to be compared with someone who had a break through album in the nineties. Sheryl Crow to me is a fame junkie. She is in her mid 40's going out on stage in a bikini praying someone snaps a shot of her. Like every other fame junkie, she hops on the global warming bandwagon linking toilet paper to ice caps melting. She bashes republican Karl Rove because he found her argument juvenile with no scientific backing and politely asked her to stop talking to him. Again, im not a crow fan, her music is as dull as the cold war kids. But hey, if your a fan, go buy her music... Jon, like I always say, music is subjective. The taste in music is usually an extension of ones personality. I find Sheryl Crow music as bland as an insurance seminar. If you think her new single that works perfectly for an AT&T commercial exciting, then you are a sheltered child my friend. Nothing wrong with being sheltered though. As far as the crash moderns, they are a developing artist never meant to be compared with someone who had a break through album in the nineties.

Sheryl Crow to me is a fame junkie. She is in her mid 40’s going out on stage in a bikini praying someone snaps a shot of her. Like every other fame junkie, she hops on the global warming bandwagon linking toilet paper to ice caps melting. She bashes republican Karl Rove because he found her argument juvenile with no scientific backing and politely asked her to stop talking to him.

Again, im not a crow fan, her music is as dull as the cold war kids. But hey, if your a fan, go buy her music…

]]> By: Mondogarage http://www.kingsofar.com/2008/03/26/the-true-american-idol-corgan-speaks-out-on-pumpkins-suit-and-new-music/#comment-127095 Mondogarage Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:23:49 +0000 http://www.kingsofar.com/2008/03/26/the-true-american-idol-corgan-speaks-out-on-pumpkins-suit-and-new-music/#comment-127095 Jeez. I just listened to The Crash Moderns (based on their claimed influences), and I must say I hear none of that whatsoever in the rather vapid and lame "Where'd All the Scene Girls Go". I'm pretty sure the "influences" are the work of a publicist. Jeez. I just listened to The Crash Moderns (based on their claimed influences), and I must say I hear none of that whatsoever in the rather vapid and lame “Where’d All the Scene Girls Go”.

I’m pretty sure the “influences” are the work of a publicist.

]]> By: Jon Cole http://www.kingsofar.com/2008/03/26/the-true-american-idol-corgan-speaks-out-on-pumpkins-suit-and-new-music/#comment-126970 Jon Cole Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:08:12 +0000 http://www.kingsofar.com/2008/03/26/the-true-american-idol-corgan-speaks-out-on-pumpkins-suit-and-new-music/#comment-126970 The rumor of her replacing Christine has been floating around for months... I heard it sometime last year. I get the impression that it was something she & Stevie had been talking about for a while now & that she genuinely understood and was excited that she'd be working with them. I, personally, wouldn't want to hear anyone I was already so familiar with singing those parts... it just seems really awkward to me. But I don't hold it against her. Maybe I'm just not looking hard enough for reasons to hate artists? Maybe she is a fame junkie, but what great rock star is perfectly well adjusted? What about Axl Rose? Iggy Pop? I'd rather her not be, honestly. I think she's put out some of the best sounding pop music of the last decade... I think If It Makes You Happy & My Favorite Mistake both sound incredible, & if not for that god-forsaken drum loop Soak Up the Sun would be up there, too. And I think the new single is great, it reminds me a lot of that first record, which was one of the few great records on the radio when I was growing up. I don't know how you can accuse her of having no emotion or soul & then you post "Where'd All the Scene Girls Go?" directly afterward. I mean... that's just ridiculous. The rumor of her replacing Christine has been floating around for months… I heard it sometime last year. I get the impression that it was something she & Stevie had been talking about for a while now & that she genuinely understood and was excited that she’d be working with them. I, personally, wouldn’t want to hear anyone I was already so familiar with singing those parts… it just seems really awkward to me. But I don’t hold it against her. Maybe I’m just not looking hard enough for reasons to hate artists?

Maybe she is a fame junkie, but what great rock star is perfectly well adjusted? What about Axl Rose? Iggy Pop? I’d rather her not be, honestly. I think she’s put out some of the best sounding pop music of the last decade… I think If It Makes You Happy & My Favorite Mistake both sound incredible, & if not for that god-forsaken drum loop Soak Up the Sun would be up there, too. And I think the new single is great, it reminds me a lot of that first record, which was one of the few great records on the radio when I was growing up.

I don’t know how you can accuse her of having no emotion or soul & then you post “Where’d All the Scene Girls Go?” directly afterward. I mean… that’s just ridiculous.

]]> By: Universal Indie Records http://www.kingsofar.com/2008/03/26/the-true-american-idol-corgan-speaks-out-on-pumpkins-suit-and-new-music/#comment-126962 Universal Indie Records Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:22:12 +0000 http://www.kingsofar.com/2008/03/26/the-true-american-idol-corgan-speaks-out-on-pumpkins-suit-and-new-music/#comment-126962 Sony article: "'It is even possible that clients could conserve some songs indefinitely, that they would own them even after the subscription expired,' he said." That would be great if it came about, but somehow I doubt it. Sony article:
“‘It is even possible that clients could conserve some songs indefinitely, that they would own them even after the subscription expired,’ he said.”

That would be great if it came about, but somehow I doubt it.

]]> By: Daniel Holter http://www.kingsofar.com/2008/03/26/the-true-american-idol-corgan-speaks-out-on-pumpkins-suit-and-new-music/#comment-126953 Daniel Holter Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:07:25 +0000 http://www.kingsofar.com/2008/03/26/the-true-american-idol-corgan-speaks-out-on-pumpkins-suit-and-new-music/#comment-126953 "Sheryl Crow *has* turned..." ???! Always been. Though I am curious to hear her new project with Bill Bottrell. Last thing I liked by her was when Kevin Gilbert rescued her from the bowels of her label's Artists-Whose-Debuts-Suck-So-Bad-The-Public-Shall-Never-Hear-Them bin by bringing her to the Tuesday Night Music Club he and Bottrell were part of. You may remember her gratitude being abundant. Not. “Sheryl Crow *has* turned…” ???!

Always been.

Though I am curious to hear her new project with Bill Bottrell.

Last thing I liked by her was when Kevin Gilbert rescued her from the bowels of her label’s Artists-Whose-Debuts-Suck-So-Bad-The-Public-Shall-Never-Hear-Them bin by bringing her to the Tuesday Night Music Club he and Bottrell were part of.

You may remember her gratitude being abundant. Not.

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