Idk why but this reminded me of this 2001 article about a tabletop games creator who said pac-man was the peak of all video games https://www.logicmazes.com/s7g2k/video.html pretty boomer take
“Cancel culture” and it’s step-child “wokeness” is such a boogeyman. Undefined and misunderstood. I don’t live in fear of potential past faux pas being weaponised against me. You just live and you learn. Nothing more.
Hanging on the edge of tomorrow is case by case.
The last song I even remember from them was “Pinch Me” and I only remember it cause the music video had all the background dancers wearing the same green stripes shirts Steve wore on Blue’s Clues
I came here to say exactly this. Bro no one cares about you, you’re not edgy and dangerous you’re just a white man who believes the world who couldn’t care less is out to get him
the only part about this that actually is funny is the singer thinking that his job is to “show up on stage and be funny every night.” you are a singer in a band from 30 years ago — did you think people came to hear you do standup? lmao
twenty years ago they were loud NDP lefties and loved to talk shit about George Bush - i thought they had generally benign if cringe progressive politics. Did they have a heel turn at some point?
I suppose “wealthy gen X white guys wondering why they aren’t popular or relevant anymore” is the epitome of a demographic susceptible to reactionary drivel
"you don't scare me" but it's also a very scary time because I can't be creative anymore and also can't anyone take a joke anymore but also please don't joke about me being a whiny manchild
as the scholar lloyd christmas once put it "man, you are one pathetic loser"
Wow, umm... damn I need to maybe sit with that for a minute. So much of what they said was so wrong. But that land mines line hit true for sm... but I think maybe not the way he meant it. 🥴 On the bright side, I never listened to them and have no regrets about it. 🤷🏼♀️
dawg you don't get cancelled for 25 year old jokes unless you double down
everyone knows wacked out shit used to be normalized, if you dont want to be "cancelled" you just gotta be like
nah yeah that was dumb and I wouldn't say it today
1) These are wealthy men (Tyler Stewart's house, just up the road, is not palatial but it's grand).
2)They 'canceled' Steven Page for doing RnR things as they were about o release a kid's album. For profit (SP's in a better place now, IMO).
3)This song is shite. Irrelevancy's nigh.
I was surprised they brought up "The Old Apartment", since that's a Steven Page song, and Steven Page hasn't been in the band for over 15 years! He had the best singing voice in the band, too.
it's wild to compare it to The Old Apartment because that's a much more mature song with better production and smarter lyrics, like why make a comparison that showcases how much shallower the band has gotten
It's times like this you remember that they effectively kicked the guy out for being too cool.
Look he was one of the most high profile people in this country he can do a little bow as a treat sometimes god damn he's not all of Motley Crue get off Steve's dick, Ed, god damn
Funny how he says it's difficult to be creative, saying that's what he's trying to do every day, but doesn't see that the message of this song is essentially about not wanting to be creative.
Insensitive "cancelable" humor is so fucking lazy. It is lazy to be mean for laughs, instead of creative
"I don't want to be cancelled for something I might have said 25 years ago" is such an embarrassing stance too, like people haven't owned up to things they said back in times where that was the norm, speaking on growing out of that and apologizing for the hurt they might have caused.
The departed Steve Albini was like "yeah man actually it was fucked up of me to write a song accusing an entire town in Minnesota of running a child abuse ring and calling one of my bands Rapeman." And he died beloved and mourned. Kim Deal was impressed by his capacity for introspection.
"I don't wanna be held responsible for saying something fucked up because the times have changed and I've gotten quieter about my racism over the years."
25 years ago I was just on the verge of discovering 4chan, it's really not that hard to own up to past shitty things.
Whenever people take this stance it's not because they fear old opinions, it's because they know their current ones are the same as their shitty old ones because they haven't grown.
I was in my late teens 25 years ago, and I probably said some pretty cringe stuff. But also, the internet forums I used to hang out on are probably long gone by now.
I'm trying to think myself....but then I remember after a show in Spokane Washington, watching a road manager try convincing a female in my group to accept a drink and backstage pass.
Barenaked Manbabies. It sure does seem like satire. So does the interview. Haven't thought about these guys in decades...I guess their million dollars and supply of Kraft dinner ran out.
If you watch videos of them touring for Gordon they did a lot of cringe goofy white guy rapping at their shows. I would not be shocked if some of that crossed some lines.
Luckily, no one is going to end the Barenaked Ladies recording career. I literally didn't know they were still recording and the best thing they can say about this number is that the creative process behind it was reminiscent of an *actual* hit of theirs from three decades ago...
I mean imagine being a rich white dude where we are in history and going “Oh it’s SUCH a hard time right now to be creative and funny” with a straight face, on TV, in public
And you're so aFrAiD of being cAnCeLlEd that you... write a (frankly bad) song about how bad being cancelled is... which one imagines would draw the ire of the mythological Cancel Culture, no?
I think he might be overestimating a little the amount of people poring over the lore and past statements of the members of Barenaked Ladies these days.
Omg what a fucking loser. "I just want to not live in fear of one joke I made not comming back to bite me"
It's not hard for you to do that, just don't make stupid unfunny jokes based on edgy humor about minorities and things like that, and no one will "cancel you".
Also, cancel culture is not even a real thing, specially the way they describe it, if that was the case, most of these people wouldn't even have a job anymore, let alone get to have a massive audience listening to their crap and a platform to spread their bullshit.
"It's a difficult time to try and be funny."
Tells you all you need to know right there. This is some rich old fucks whining because time never stops changing things, and they hate having to change with it if they don't want to become even more irrelevant.
They have a good point with the song. Crap like that causes people to vote for orange shit stains. In a way you can say cancel culture is destroying our govt by getting Trump in office.
Really the more I think about it there’s two ways to interpret this image: either they’re Pac-man and getting themselves killed for no reason despite obvious warning signs
Or they’re the ghosts who will gladly gang up on the powerless but flee like cowards at the slightest hint of pushback
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Hanging on the edge of tomorrow is case by case.
sir you were never funny, im so sorry to have to tell you this, you have not been canceled you are just very unpopular because your music sucks
as the scholar lloyd christmas once put it "man, you are one pathetic loser"
- Idiot American that forgets not every white douche bag is from here
everyone knows wacked out shit used to be normalized, if you dont want to be "cancelled" you just gotta be like
nah yeah that was dumb and I wouldn't say it today
then 99% of people will leave it alone
2)They 'canceled' Steven Page for doing RnR things as they were about o release a kid's album. For profit (SP's in a better place now, IMO).
3)This song is shite. Irrelevancy's nigh.
Look he was one of the most high profile people in this country he can do a little bow as a treat sometimes god damn he's not all of Motley Crue get off Steve's dick, Ed, god damn
Insensitive "cancelable" humor is so fucking lazy. It is lazy to be mean for laughs, instead of creative
It's so sad really.
It's NOT HARD.
Whenever people take this stance it's not because they fear old opinions, it's because they know their current ones are the same as their shitty old ones because they haven't grown.
*has an existential crisis* 😱
The only one I've heard people complain about is chickety China the Chinese chicken, but I think people are over that?
Also LOL at thinking Tom Petty would record something this lifeless
'Cause that cartoon has got the boom anime babes
That make me think the wrong thing
Last time I heard anyone talk about them in anyway was an episode of Community
People used to get exiled, Ed.
Awful novelty act.
“Trying to be funny.”
They’ve always been about as funny as a sackful of dead kittens.
another casualty alongside Billy Joel, Alec Baldwin, etc
It's not hard for you to do that, just don't make stupid unfunny jokes based on edgy humor about minorities and things like that, and no one will "cancel you".
Lou Reed trusted him with a lot.
Tells you all you need to know right there. This is some rich old fucks whining because time never stops changing things, and they hate having to change with it if they don't want to become even more irrelevant.
Cocked your head to side and said "What tha?"
...
Or they’re the ghosts who will gladly gang up on the powerless but flee like cowards at the slightest hint of pushback
Curious
SJW's: "pronouns..."
"NO! PLEASE STOP! I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!!!"
(procedes to melt away)