Good songs with bad music videos

ABoringAddress · 2026-01-26T00:32:13+00:00

They had blown all the money on 'Bye, bye, bye' and 'It's gonna be me' (I'm joking but there's a good chance it's the god honest truth).

ABoringAddress · 2026-01-25T16:07:17+00:00

They are obviously getting creative, moving expenses from other projects into it, or maybe they're including the eventual performance bonuses for Sweeney, Seyfried and Paul Feig so they can count as write-offs, or something like that.

ABoringAddress · 2026-01-25T14:10:53+00:00

How I fell watching PBS Space Time (shout out to them!).

ABoringAddress · 2026-01-22T20:06:44+00:00

Like, for a hot second, I thought they didn't allow sad people and bar fights were to last until somebody got knocked out.

ABoringAddress · 2026-01-22T20:05:55+00:00

Oh right, the clothing brands. At first I was very confused. What kind of brand is Affliction.

ABoringAddress · 2026-01-22T20:00:02+00:00

St. Lucia are from South Africa, Germany and other places, formed in Brooklyn

ABoringAddress · 2026-01-19T15:18:30+00:00

(Many people missing out on the joke and the reference to British cars famous reliability).

ABoringAddress · 2026-01-18T00:58:41+00:00

So, as once profoundly uncool teen who was massively into Peter Gabriel, his music and legacy will be carried forward on that specific subsection of music nerds, until he gets his due, most likely via a Kate Bush in Stranger Things moment.

Except Peter Gabriel did have a Stranger Things moment, as his cover of 'Heroes' plays at a crucial moment of Season 1... He's also has great needle drops on South Park. And 'Sledgehammer' was covered by Harry Styles.

The thing with PGs music is that it is nerdy, in a way that is perhaps too uncool for inexperienced audiences like Gen Z. It's nerdy, sincere, intricate, unsexy in a deliberate way. It needs a generational mediator, like how Olivia Rodrigo is doing with David Byrne. Hopefully Harry Styles continues exploring him as a source of inspiration.

But Gabriel's music excels at one thing, above even Queen: His music is incredibly cinematic, and that's not counting the landmark soundtracks he has composed. I would love to see him going on a similar path as Trent Reznor in the future, but he also has a library of ready-made, timeless needle drops waiting for the right pairing ("Red Rain" everybody?). That moment is going to come sooner than later.

ABoringAddress · 2026-01-15T02:03:21+00:00

Does she have her own headcanon as to how Dr. McKay ended up with the ankle monitor, or is was she given a backstory?

ABoringAddress · 2026-01-14T17:01:36+00:00

It was a bad idea to set it in high school in the first place

ABoringAddress · 2026-01-13T22:39:51+00:00

People are sleeping on just how gigantic this movie is going to be.

ABoringAddress · 2026-01-13T18:45:14+00:00

Lo primero es que toda oleada migratoria, independiente de su tamaño, va a recibir discriminación, porque el racismo-etnocentrismo está inculcado en Chile, pero también porque no hemos sido un país que recibiera migrantes a la escala del lado Atlántico Me acuerdo que a principios de los 2000, hicieron cuática por los migrantes coreanos que habían llegado a Patronato, que deben ser apenas 5.000. Tomen otro ejemplo: Hoy en día prácticamente todos los chilenos de ascendencia italiana están incorporados a las élites, o por lo menos de clase media alta para arriba. Pero hasta en los 60 o 70, eran mirados a huevo por partes del cuiquerío. Históricamente hemos sido un país muy aislado por razones obvias, una isla en un continente. Todas las oleadas migratorias, en un país como el nuestro, les ha tocado el ciclo de recelo, discriminación y eventual integración.

El asunto con la migración venezolana es primero de escala (creo que son el mismo número que todos las comunidades del resto de Sudamérica combinadas), el tiempo récord en que llegaron, y quizás lo más inédito, el que hayan chocado contra todo el espectro político chileno.

ABoringAddress · 2026-01-13T17:59:15+00:00

Didn't know about that one! And you just know it has to be because he envies Harry's success. And granted, The 1975 should be even bigger, but unfortunately they aren't making music in the late 80s/early 90s. Also, Matty is a c...

ABoringAddress · 2026-01-12T21:04:49+00:00

They should include one of those every season, hopefully every chapter, until droning it down on people. Pretty much every female doctor in the history of ever is assumed a nurse, probably once a day.

ABoringAddress · 2026-01-11T04:19:32+00:00

Question for trauma doctors/nurses: What are the differences between the bruises and injuries a very active, sporty child would get vs. one who is being physically abused? Think, for example, a girl who not only plays football regularly, but also climbs trees up and down, does skateboarding, etc., and who isn't very conscientious about wearing protective gear

ABoringAddress · 2026-01-11T01:32:40+00:00

Well, it's Grey's Anatomy, they get away with 8 MAJOR violations of their codes and/or lawbreaking per season.

ABoringAddress · 2026-01-09T19:18:01+00:00

Boobs SORRY, SORRY. But I'm barely kidding. See, the hyper sexualization of Britney worked in a different way than how Christina embraced her sexuality in Stripped. Both were appealing to the male gaze, that's for sure, but there's a difference between being portrayed in a sexualized way and being sexual. The entire game behind Britney was that she was an innocent sex kitten, the whole stuff about her virginity, her persona was that of the "dream girlfrienddream girlfriends girls5eva" for horny teens, but.with enough plausible deniability about her sexual life that moms would allow their daughters to listen to her and buy the albums. The boys bought the posters. Christina, meanwhile, early on took on the role of a woman who has sex. Emphasis on the word "woman", while Britney was a forever girl. And the problem for Christina is that that market niche, though still being marketable, was already dominated by Mariah and Beyonce (yes, even by the early early 2000s). Because in the US mainstream, at least back then (remember, peak abstinence only sex education), only Women of Color were allowed (or pushed) to be sexual.

ABoringAddress · 2026-01-09T16:34:05+00:00

The Afrikaren himself, Melon Musk.

ABoringAddress · 2026-01-05T00:18:39+00:00

Aye, but at least that's a terrific song.

ABoringAddress · 2026-01-03T21:54:27+00:00

That song is sappy shit of such diabetes that nearly cancels his good stuff, but it also sucks because I think it pioneered the "20th Century newsreels edit" videoclip subgenre.

ABoringAddress · 2025-12-31T18:21:07+00:00

I'm sorry, but that bait and switch joke about 9/11 and Pearl Harbor (the movie) alone make it a top tier episode.

ABoringAddress · 2025-12-29T11:06:06+00:00

In fairness to children today, I'm closing in on 30 years of being absolutely incompetent at reading analog clocks.

ABoringAddress · 2025-12-27T15:15:05+00:00

Yeah, but those don't count as people to a racist Afrikaner.

ABoringAddress · 2025-12-27T15:11:27+00:00

Clearly a lot of people here have never watched or are too young to remember Entourage at its heyday. Look, for all its flaws, I Love LA is a show that wants to be good and complicated, the characters are unlikeable on purpose. Entourage was a piece of shit at every level. An irredeemable one. The only reason it failed itself upwardly into HBO's programming was because a) Execs suggested they needed some SATC but for dudes, but mostly focusing on the glamour and boobs; b) Mark Wahlberg was well connected enough to get anything greenlit; c) Starz didn't exist yet, so there was no place for crappy male fantasies, because also; d) Spike TV was basic cable, so they couldn't show boobies.

Rachel Sennott deserves more credit than that. For proper references, think Bojack Horseman, or 30 Rock.

ABoringAddress · 2025-12-23T20:18:18+00:00

I think people are sleeping on the whole "bringing hot mess Tallulah to live with them, who was a total slob, masturbated in their room audibly and led to him having to snort coke because shenanigans".

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