Defend the Indefensible: Josh Groban

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All I know about him is two things:

- his music makes me want to never hear again

- a psychotic goth girl I once ran into claimed to be his girlfriend (and also claimed to have had sex with 3 of the 4 actors who played the hobbits in the Lord of the Rings trilogy...notably absent was Sean Astin, notably present was the fact that said girl lived 60 miles north of L.A. in a trailer and had a few "habits")

I have yet to meet someone who would defend him.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 00:36 (twenty years ago) link

'sex with 3 of the 4 actors who played the hobbits in the Lord of the Rings trilogy..'

Was this one of those 'bonding excercises we keep hearing about?

― pete s, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 00:41 (twenty years ago) link

she DID claim that she was never with "just one"

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 00:42 (twenty years ago) link

The fact that Sean Astin is happily married...proves nothing except that she did her research.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 00:50 (twenty years ago) link

You didn't specify if one is to defend the man or the music.

So I think he seems like a nice guy.

I could be wrong though. Yeah. Could be.

Maybe he indulges in off-campus orgies with his demograph (namely 40 and 50 something MILFS), does way too many drugs, hates Oprah, and injects subliminal neo-nazi context into the radio-friendly singles only - of course.

― JesusMaryChain, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 00:52 (twenty years ago) link

I guess the 50 somethings need some current music to love too. That's where Josh Groban comes in. (and 50 somethings don't use Kazaa, WinMX nor Soulseek, making Groban a potential goldmine for the record biz)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:09 (twenty years ago) link

This sounds like the best sitcom pitch I have ever heard: - "A psychotic goth girl comes of age in a trailer park 60 miles North of L.A., dealing with the trials and tribulations of 'habits' and hobbit-fucking."

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:11 (twenty years ago) link

Every time I see her, my aunt tells me I look like Josh Groban (who she loves). Ergo, he's HOTT!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:57 (twenty years ago) link

Ned being happily married has nothing do with whether or not you engage in hobbit orgies.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 02:00 (twenty years ago) link

That's quite true, whether or not I'm married SHOULD have nothing to do with your hobbit orgies, ILX.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 02:14 (twenty years ago) link

i must meet this goth girl!!

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 02:29 (twenty years ago) link

Chaki don't use her just to get to the hobbits.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 02:35 (twenty years ago) link

Can I PLEASE be in a hobbit orgy??

― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 02:38 (twenty years ago) link

Our birthday wish should be for Sean to get a hobbit orgy of his very own!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 02:52 (twenty years ago) link

It's just like the ending (or one of the endings) of ROTK, where they're all bouncing on the bed, except remove Sean and insert goth girl. She wasn't at all attractive btw.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 03:12 (twenty years ago) link

Please remove goth girl and reinsert me!

― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 03:39 (twenty years ago) link

What the fucking fuck is wrong with Josh Groban?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 03:56 (twenty years ago) link

What isn't?

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 04:08 (twenty years ago) link

I have no idea who Josh Groban is, but I want to hate him just cuz Snrub does.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 04:13 (twenty years ago) link

'nt.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 04:14 (twenty years ago) link

check keith harris's groban vs. air essays on useful noise

dude's on fire

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 04:25 (twenty years ago) link

Haha cute.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 04:35 (twenty years ago) link

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 04:39 (twenty years ago) link

http://useful-noise.blogspot.com

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 04:40 (twenty years ago) link

I read it. I was laughing appreciatively at it.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 04:41 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, that's great stuff.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 05:02 (twenty years ago) link

I hate Andrea Bocelli and this guy too.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 05:56 (twenty years ago) link

four years pass...

this man is downstairs

― Surmounter, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 21:11 (fifteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

I am considering buying a Josh Groban CD for my mother this Christmas. This is on the strength of his Never Mind The Buzzcocks performance a couple of weeks ago.

― mmmm, Sunday, 21 December 2008 10:05 (fifteen years ago) link

http://download.wbr.com/banners/JG_250x250-1.jpg

― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 21 December 2008 10:32 (fifteen years ago) link

I once elbowed him out of the way to get to a water fountain, that was pretty classic.

― ^likes black girls (HI DERE), Sunday, 21 December 2008 13:30 (fifteen years ago) link

I am considering buying a Josh Groban CD for my mother this Christmas. This is on the strength of his Never Mind The Buzzcocks performance a couple of weeks ago.

― mmmm, Sunday, December 21, 2008 10:05 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO
HE SPECIFICALLY INSTRUCTED YOU NOT TO DO THAT
OMG

― warmsherry, Sunday, 21 December 2008 15:08 (fifteen years ago) link

he also had a part in Jimmy Kimmel's "I'm fucking Ben Affleck" lovely videorama

― warmsherry, Sunday, 21 December 2008 15:11 (fifteen years ago) link

He comes across as pretty likeable on Buzzcocks.

― ecuador_with_a_c, Monday, 22 December 2008 09:42 (fifteen years ago) link

My boyfriend is an enthusiastic fan.

Sigh.

― Paul in Santa Cruz, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 04:43 (fifteen years ago) link

My mom likes him a lot, so he's cool by me.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 05:17 (fifteen years ago) link

He is maybe the worst ever.

― 2 5 (Z S), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 05:20 (fifteen years ago) link

his voice is so ugly, i started singing in my head to drown it out :/

my parents were all "he has a voice, he has a voice." PLEASE just cuz you can sing loud and operalike doesn't mean you have a voice.

eek

― Surmounter, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 07:38 (fifteen years ago) link

He's pretty good on drums:

― ichard Thompson (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 07:44 (fifteen years ago) link

he seems like a charming dude, and he's got a nice voice. so his music isn't all that great, it's not like he's celine dion or anything.

― Worthless as Hen Poo on a Pump Handle (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 08:04 (fifteen years ago) link

Um, was nice on "Never mind the buzzcocks" without being corny/lost.

I daresay his actual taste in music is nothing like what he actually produces.

Still,though, has that 'very rich' niceness (i.e. from birth)

― Mark G, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 08:18 (fifteen years ago) link

ok, just watched that youtube, and i went from indifferent to "will defend"

― Worthless as Hen Poo on a Pump Handle (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 08:21 (fifteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

http://alejis.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/josh1.jpg

OH MY FUCKING GOD

JOSH GROBAN

― PIN number at the ATM Machine (Z S), Thursday, 13 August 2009 01:30 (fourteen years ago) link

(click "view image" in order to get intimate)

― PIN number at the ATM Machine (Z S), Thursday, 13 August 2009 01:30 (fourteen years ago) link

his songs on tim and eric were hilare

― wilter, Thursday, 13 August 2009 01:32 (fourteen years ago) link

One of his tags on last.fm is "usa".

― deep olives (Euler), Thursday, 13 August 2009 09:44 (fourteen years ago) link

two years pass...

Josh Groban: "Nabisco OTM"

― jaymc, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 22:56 (twelve years ago) link

Good to see he recognizes this.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link

nine years pass...

Josh Groban has recorded a new theme song for beans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeRF6eE90N0

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 19:17 (three years ago) link

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