her high notes are better than i've seen them in the past...
when this is the best you can say about somebody maybe they're not ready for television
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 15 January 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
well snl's cast is known as the "not-ready-for-primetime players"!
― choucrüt (get bent), Sunday, 15 January 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
that wasn't as bad as I was expecting but it wasn't good at all either
― akm, Sunday, 15 January 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
i couldn't get thru the youtube, but tuning doesn't just sound like her problem
mainly had to stop cos of the guitar guy's "into it" head nodding. which screams "holy god we are crashing and burning up here"
― goole, Sunday, 15 January 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
I really enjoy watching unintentionally terrible performances (Shannen Doherty in "Friends til the End", for example) and this did not disappoint! In fact the fake opulence of the whole look/sound reminded me a lot of Valley of the Dolls.
It was like Neely and Tony singing "Come Live with Me" in the sanitarium only instead it was Jennifer's talentless dopey little sister playing dress up in a wig and singing about video games to the mirror. I won't say that I like her music because I surely do not, but I love the seriously campy (unintended?) awfulness of this performance.
Without the chutzpah of Nancy Sinatra, she could be a 21st c. Twinkle?
― La Lechera, Sunday, 15 January 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
to john's point above, 'video games' has already been on gossip girl. she has lots of pros working with her.
― maura, Sunday, 15 January 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
node to LDR: when you mention a word or action you don't have to demonstrate that with your hand.
― goole, Sunday, 15 January 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
You want to hear some bad singing, try this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQYbnzWuSvk&feature=related
― La Lechera, Sunday, 15 January 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
mostly bemused that people care about how stuff sounds live.
― pandemic, Sunday, 15 January 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
this reminds me of when you see someone doing karaoke and they're really "feeling it" but in a way that's humorless and just makes everyone uncomfortable
― tyga mother (J0rdan S.), Sunday, January 15, 2012 10:21 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
otm
― goole, Sunday, 15 January 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
SNL is not the place for feelings
― do you not like slouching? (Eazy), Sunday, 15 January 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
twinkle had loads of chutzpah! (because she was crazy, yes.)
― choucrüt (get bent), Sunday, 15 January 2012 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
it's this weird phenomenon of having ears instead of just eyes
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 15 January 2012 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
i generally don't care that much about how an act sounds live unless i'm paying upwards of $30 to see them play live, but that was also a terrible performance
― tyga mother (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 15 January 2012 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
well i listen to the album rather than looking at the record cover yesxp
― pandemic, Sunday, 15 January 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
I guess I always think of Twinkle as kind of blank, but honestly I'll take blank over Jessie J clown faces.
― La Lechera, Sunday, 15 January 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
she's loaded the clips to her own Facebook (which she has been looking after since day one) so she's obviously not that arsed about it sounding a bit weird. it DID sound weird though no doubt about that.
she sounded great live when i saw her, dead natural. she can cut it live when she wantshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIgSIz6oHzk&feature=related
― piscesx, Sunday, 15 January 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
:(
Jessie J can't catch a break on any thread today.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 January 2012 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
That's what SNL should start doing...digital shorts for the musical performances!
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 January 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
LDR SNL performance was like a real version of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdFJTbaFcZ0
― dayo, Sunday, 15 January 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
Nah, real version of that ishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjx_GjyXCs4
― do you not like slouching? (Eazy), Sunday, 15 January 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
LOL @ giant mic!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 15 January 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
i don't understand the tone of that whiney idolator post at all.
― Mordy, Sunday, 15 January 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
like it kinda seems like he actually believes there's an SNL conspiracy to make artists sound bad?
― Mordy, Sunday, 15 January 2012 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
yes
― dayo, Sunday, 15 January 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
never listened to her music but my ver of video games is me singing in a v deep husky voice
why do you plaaaaaaaaaaayvideo gaaaaaaaaaaaaaames
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 15 January 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
So have you been practicing all week for SNL?
Well, no, I haven’t because I’ve been working. I don’t even know what I’m singing! I know it’s “Video Games” and I think “Blue Jeans,” but I thought it was supposed to be “Born to Die,” so I have to go figure that out. I better fucking figure that out! There’s a lot going on so there’s a lot of catching up to do.
Are you excited?
Yeah … I’m excited if it goes well. If it doesn’t, I’m gonna kill myself! But yeah, what an honor. And who knows why, but it’s really nice for me.
Expecting a death notice any minute now.
― Nicole, Sunday, 15 January 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
facepalmsmiley.gif tbh
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 15 January 2012 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
twitter response...was fucking scathing
― NO NUTRITIONAL CONTENT (kelpolaris), Sunday, 15 January 2012 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
so i just watched "video games" performance on youtube, was expecting a trainwreck and it really wasn't THAT bad. Wasn't a great performance or anything, she was obviously a bit nervous, but it wasn't horrible...
i feel like everyone has it in for this girl for no good reason, it's kind of creept actually. and i'm not even into her music...
― I had to google gucci mane (The Brainwasher), Sunday, 15 January 2012 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
it wasn't a courtney love style trainwreck - which i could see someone anticipating after some of the comments on twitter - but it was still really terrible in an unfortunately amateur way. bc part of her narrative has already become about her inauthenticity (hard to believe in 2012 but there it is), this confirmed something a lot of ppl believed about her. there was also a lot of, i think, honest enthusiasm about her right after video games came out so there was maybe a feeling like she had a huge groundswell of support inexplicably pushing her to become this hot new artist. personally, i loved video games when i first heard it, played it a bunch, played it for a lot of ppl. the following tracks didn't really interest me at all and then i started seeing her live in various venues and she seems to be getting progressively worse with each performance. also, video games was partially really intriguing to me bc of how self-assured and self-possessed and even cocky it all feels, so these performances have been polar opposites of that. she isn't just nervous, but stammering, playacting, she seems like the confused, out of it persona that maybe seemed more ironic when i first heard video games. instead of uncomfortably sincere and frightening.
― Mordy, Sunday, 15 January 2012 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
^yeah, that coupled with the uber-dramatica lighting and the pseudo-wedding gown. i cringed, personally.
― NO NUTRITIONAL CONTENT (kelpolaris), Sunday, 15 January 2012 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
A lot of people sound bad on TV (and esp. SNL) so to me her voice was only a small part of the problem. It's her presence that is so difficult to watch. She's not a performer. She radiates discomfort. She's been playing live in public since at least 2008, so maybe it's just not her thing. There are a lot of musicians in this camp.
― Mark, Sunday, 15 January 2012 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
i think mordy has def pinpointed the problem there, and actually brainwasher bringing up courtney love is apt, because the thing with c-love trainwrecks is that even at her worst those trainwrecks were entirely in keeping with what you expected of courtney. these LDR performances aren't just missing a few notes, it's more fundamentally that she seems completely awkward about inhabiting/conveying her on-record persona. which reinforces what i grew to think after hearing her other songs - "video games" was a weird one-off piece of magic that i'm not expecting her to recapture any time soon.
― irina-camelia begu (lex pretend), Sunday, 15 January 2012 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
If you sell yourself as gangsta and you radiate ziggy, things aren't going to go well in the long run. http://joshreads.com/images/10/09/i100915ziggy.png
― La Lechera, Sunday, 15 January 2012 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
dayo i beat you to the "shreds" joke by 10 hours.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Sunday, 15 January 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
hmm, well I suppose since I was never invested in her in the first place and didn't really get into "video games" until well after she was "exposed" its kind of difficult for me to get that disconnect between her "on-record persona" and live performances that you guys are seeing. I guess from the outside of this situation it seems like she's being constantly lambasted and bullied because she doesn't live up to the image/idea people initially had of her as some sort of 'indie' siren or what have you. The performance was definitely amateurish, won't argue with that, maybe she just wasn't ready to be on such a huge platform - the hype around her really just started to build a few months ago, didn't it?
― I had to google gucci mane (The Brainwasher), Sunday, 15 January 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
Skipping 557 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.
― dayo, Sunday, 15 January 2012 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
at least half of them must be your attempts at metasnark dayo
― irina-camelia begu (lex pretend), Sunday, 15 January 2012 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
i wish snl/nbc weren't such jerks about youtube because i really want to watch weezy's guitar solo from 2008 right now
― ⚓ (gr8080), Sunday, 15 January 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
Starting this thread probably is the greatest achievement in my life. I don't know how to top this.
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 15 January 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
why would you ever care about a live performance, lex?
― dayo, Sunday, 15 January 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
you might be overstating the extent to which i "care" about this but why would i not care about a live performance?
― irina-camelia begu (lex pretend), Sunday, 15 January 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
you are like this board's #1 anti-rockist
unless you're a secret rockist (about things you like)
― dayo, Sunday, 15 January 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
Lol at "Skipping 557 messages"
― I Don't Believe You've Met M. Bébé (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 January 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
didn't we retire the rockism/anti-rockism binary years ago? what's rockist or not rockist about live shows?
― irina-camelia begu (lex pretend), Sunday, 15 January 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
I'd be happy to have occasional studio missives from a studio-bound, inauthentic LDR persona. I don't think "pop performer complete package" is really relevant when she's mostly selling atmospherics.
This is a lesser gaffe than that "Born to Die" video, which failed because it ruptured the suburban Dorothy Vallens schtick with the European castle setting etc.
― Plato’s The Cave In Claymation (Sanpaku), Sunday, 15 January 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
don't you know that watching a pop star play SNL is rockism lexdude? down with the machine, up with the music! xp
― Mordy, Sunday, 15 January 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
the idea of thinking that a singer's performance outside of a studio has any bearing on a popist's appreciation of said singer in 2012 seems very bizarre to me
― dayo, Sunday, 15 January 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
you're being pretty reductive and i'm too tired to argue basics right now, soz
― irina-camelia begu (lex pretend), Sunday, 15 January 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link