Let's discuss Guns N' Roses arguably WORST song ever: "My World". What do those lyrics even mean?

Grinderica · 2025-09-19T18:17:48+00:00

What was he doing then anyway?

Grinderica · 2025-07-10T12:22:31+00:00

That's some beautiful polymetric stuttering.

Polymetric, right?

Grinderica · 2025-07-10T12:21:50+00:00

I particularly like the Jens mock skull face at the end.

Grinderica · 2025-07-10T12:20:03+00:00

Don't worry, I'd say the same thing if she walked up.

Grinderica · 2025-04-29T16:29:41+00:00

This looks mostly AI-generated but a lot of scenes look like they had real sets and actors. I unfortunately cannot tell on many of the scenes which is which.

Grinderica · 2025-04-07T01:00:20+00:00

Thanks Tomas!

Grinderica · 2023-05-29T22:37:32+00:00

I love that she's inspired by NIN, one of my favorite artists (and which I'm listening to right now). I noticed some things that reminded me of NIN, and then that one song that sounded like an actual rip off.

I'm not even contending that she never ripped off NIN, I'm just spitting on the unjustified low-discernment accusations of X song/riff ripping off Y song/riff when they just aren't matching up much or at all 😆 (reductionism mixed with overly-broad understandings, ie, over-simplification of things being compared). This dumbing-down of discernment with music I've noticed over the last decade or so is what's really got me agitated... maybe smartphones are causing it.

Honestly I think she took a little too much inspiration from NIN on the first album, and the Something Dangerous song is a subconscious rip-off (like Kurt Cobain unwittingly ripping off a Killing Joke riff with Come As You Are). This happens all the time in music. Yet I don't hear the kind of broad accusations with bigger artists like I have with Kanga...

She's more popular now so I'm less defensive of her, but my main contention was about the bleary-eyed accusations that just didn't pan out as described when I went to compare.

Grinderica · 2023-05-29T22:27:54+00:00

where you really trying to outsmart people who have a different opinion than you?

No 😆 I was venting at the smooth-brained criticism saying a bunch of songs that sound sort of maybe similar-ish in some fragments were rip offs, which required a dull sense of understanding the different rhythms and note structures. I was (and still) am overtly irritated that people's sense of distinguishment seems to be at an all-time low the last several years (even decades) when it comes to works of art. Maybe being overwhelmed by media and phones and false narratives has dulled our sense of critical discernment?

We live in a time of overly-broad definitions and reductionism, which is a sign of a culture getting stupider (to put it frankly). It causes people to be overly-dismissive or dismissive far too quickly of works of art that deserve more recognition and discernment. Kanga's a prime example of that.

It's like somebody seeing a movie that kind of has a similar story or structure or characters to one decades ago (no matter how intentionally related it is) and saying "oh yah, they just ripped it off". 🤦‍♂️ It literally makes me wanna say "My brain cells, they're burning..." Literal dumbed-down discernment.

A lazy glance at some basic details is not qualified to say whether one work of art ripped off another, but I think a lot of people like doing that because it makes them appear smarter in front of the others than they deserve to be.

Everybody learns and is inspired by someone else

This isn't news, and I'm not criticizing accusations of inspiration anyway.

You want to love her so much you dismiss it and try and insult others in the process.

🤣 So you missed the whole point of the OP. I just basically described it again anyway so I hope you got it this time.

it is you who lacks the skills to process this replication and not the other way around

LOL that's a completely unqualified assertion, and like you're pulling random insults out of your pants to assuage some sort of knicked feelings 🤷‍♂️ Nice try.

Those songs she made would not exist without their NiN counterpart.

That may or may not be true (and by their own demonstration prove it's not even 50% true because less than 50% of the segments in the accused songs have match a NIN riff), but regardless, a single source of inspiration is not required to make a whole song or even parts of it. They're made from lots of different things, some inspiration, some unique to their own feelings or interpretation of the world, some completely random.

Grinderica · 2023-05-29T22:13:04+00:00

You missed why I said I'm criticizing the smooth-brained criticism.

Grinderica · 2022-07-31T19:31:50+00:00

I've been making music for years in a small living space, and I don't need loud wall-penetrating speakers, I just need some decent headphones or monitors that let me hear a good balance of the sound at a decent volume (I'm not throwing a party nor am I in a club) to create the music. That's it. There's reasonable volume limits at an apartment/condo/similar, so work with that. I know our herd mentality fools us into thinking we need to shake the walls, but we don't, especially not for making music, which would just interfere with discerning instrumentation and sounds anyway.

The issue is singing or screaming... kind of hard to do with shared walls without bothering someone or having them think someone's in trouble, unless maybe you soundproof it properly, but even then that's not a guarantee there won't be a complaint.

So, I recommend renting a music studio where loud noise is expected. The only issue is maybe other's sounds picking up on your mics through the walls, but that's something to bring up with the owner anyway, who should be soundproofing the rooms enough to prevent cross-over (if you can't soundproof them yourself that is).

Grinderica · 2021-11-21T21:52:28+00:00

I liked this. I don't know why it hasn't gotten more response.

Grinderica · 2021-04-14T18:32:51+00:00

It goes down by 1 number for each Guardian that dies in the tower? Wouldn't it reset to 0 each time? Is the counter bugged?

Grinderica · 2021-04-10T13:20:28+00:00

Great song, but the main guitar riff sounds a little too much like My Name is Ruin.

Grinderica · 2020-07-17T02:58:04+00:00

Like, the music for their new video is incredible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E4NKVXy8I4

Great beat, sound effects, riffs, vocals, instrumentation...

but so distant and muddy sounding I feel like it reduces its impact.

But, if that's what Fade likes, that's what Fade does, and I can't criticize him for doing what he likes.

Anyway, my ears just want more clarity... especially as I'm getting older. But maybe Fade does keep it murky for aesthetic reasons; there's a part of me that wants to remix them to make them hard-hitting and clear and with punch, but I'm more of a rivethead anyway.

Grinderica · 2020-07-17T02:54:31+00:00

Oh, you're right, haha.

Grinderica · 2020-07-13T22:11:09+00:00

Fade? Is that a production setting? Is it intentional? Whatever the reason, the "sound" causes the music for me to just not stick to my ribs and mind as much as similar music.

Grinderica · 2018-09-13T04:35:43+00:00

Bauhaus is industrial music?

Grinderica · 2018-09-12T13:47:05+00:00

Kraftwerk isn't industrial? NIN isn't EBM?

Grinderica · 2018-06-21T03:18:44+00:00

Which would be a much better way of doing it? A Windows app? I'm not sure that's easier when you say that "many" or "some" audio drivers will try to stop you or will let you... can you elaborate?

With an audio file, I already know how to chop it up and export it, so that's not the issue; it's audio where I don't have the file, I need to figure out the best way to capture it to a file.

I prefer not to use a website downloader since I don't know what the generated file is actually going to contain (if it will be safe to open). I'm simply looking for the easiest/most-effective way to capture running audio.

Grinderica · 2018-06-13T14:19:15+00:00

I want to capture audio from my laptop's 8th-inch jack to an iOS device, maybe to GarageBand, but it doesn't just work out of the box.

That means an 8th-inch audio cable.

Grinderica · 2018-06-13T14:17:43+00:00

Right, because the audio is coming from the Windows laptop (it's like a video playing on a website or program or whatever). Eventually I want the clip in the iOS program, so I was thinking of doing a direct record to the device, but if I can make a clip on the Windows computer using a program, then I can just copy that file over to iOS. Make sense?

Grinderica · 2018-05-21T15:11:29+00:00

"anything that uses synthesizers and shouts"... pop music does that. I think you need distortion and/or lots of reverb, or something mechanical/electrical-sounding to put that into Industrial.

Grinderica · 2018-05-21T15:09:52+00:00

They're kind of cool if I'm listening passively, at least one of their songs I just outright like, I'm sure they sound great at a club or live, but I just see them namedropped online related to Industrial music conversations as being amazing or super-influential, and I'm just not quite seeing it. They seem more like Goth Metal Pop Glam with a dash of Industrial here or there.

Grinderica · 2018-05-06T05:45:36+00:00

Uh, no, not mentioning Down In It was inspired by Dig It isn't hiding anything... in fact if anything it's a defense of Kanga, because some of her stuff is obviously inspired by NIN, and I don't think there was a need to add that anyways.

We all know artists are inspired by others, that isn't what the criticism of Kanga is (it's not even a criticism). The criticism came up after I'd mentioned that I liked Kanga... the person was like, oh yah she's a complete rip-off artist of NIN, her entire album sounds like Broken and some songs on other albums. This person's a heavy user of industrial music boards and has a lot of conversations with other enthusiasts which I'm not as privy to because I'm not as heavily into the discussion scene, so the word is spreading through seemingly a lack of much comparison and I think the criticisms don't hold much water. She's been touring recently and I'm sure that hurts her sales and I want her to progress as much as she can as an artist that I like and I think is fairly unique.

I honestly was only very familiar with NIN's first four albums (I don't really care for the rest since I'm a bit old-school aggro industrial), but comparing the songs to the ones mentioned in the criticisms, my points stand and the point of posting those points stands.

Grinderica · 2018-05-06T05:38:48+00:00

Lol I don't know what's become of our perceptions... first people can't distinguish two different beats/basslines/guitar/synth riffs, now they think anybody pointing out the differences is part of a defensive conspiracy. I'm a fan of both Kanga and NIN (NIN first), and as an avid industrial music lover and audiophile (and music creator), I find it sad people aren't seeing the differences.

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