Which Vaccuous Pop Irritant's "Influences" list is this?

http://homepages.nyu.edu/~alr237/void_split.jpg

Okay, so over the weekend, I spotted a picture of a current pop sensation (no, not Lady Gaga) wearing a t-shirt with the VOID insignia on it. I was deeply incredulous that a whistleheaded pop irritant like _____ dared sully Void's good name with her vileness. Upon sharing this revelation with a colleague this morning, he answered: "Dude, check out her MySpace page ... she likes good music." I find it imposible to believe that a child capable of making such awful pop would be fan of decent music, but check out her list of "influences" and see if you can guess who I'm talking about:

MIA, Beck, Rolling Stones, Devo, Flock of Seagulls, kraftwork, Daniel Johnson, talking Heads, David Bowie, Donovan, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Janet and Sir Michael Jackson, Avenue A, The Go! Team, Mika, Sonic Youth, Elton John, Willlie Nelson, Gwen Stefani, Madonna, Beastie Boys, Eagles of Death Metal, Black Keys, Black Eyed Peas, Daft Punk, Electric 6, Teenager, Tonite Only, Prince,Mirwais, Afrika Bambaata, Peaches, Rock&Roll, Richard X, Cornelius, ESG,6ths, ackron family, al green, andrew bird, anthrax, aphex twin, aphid ant constructions, arcade fire, archers of loaf, ataxia, badfinger, the bang up, beck, belle &; sebastian, ben lee, beulah, big star, black flag, the blow, boards of canada, bob dylan, brian eno, brian wilson, bright eyes, built to spill, butthole surfers, the cardigans, the carpenters, casiotone for the painfully alone, the clash, the clutters, daft punk, the damned, the dandy warhols, david bowie, the dead milkmen, devandra banhart, donovan, dresden dolls, the eels, elvis costello, eric's trip, the fall, the features, fischerspooner, frank black, frank sinatra, franz ferdinand, futurheads, gary glitter, generation x, ghostface killah, gogol bordello, gorillaz, guided by voices, her space holiday, how i became the bomb, human television, iggy pop, islands, jackson 5, jawbreaker, jenny lewis, jim o'rourke, joan jett, joe jack talcum, john frusciante, johnny thunders, the killers, kimya dawson, the kinks, kraftwerk, LCD soundsystem, le tigre, the lemonheads, leonard cohen, little ones, lou barlow, love, the lovely feathers, marshal crenshaw, matisyahu, matmos, miles davis, minor threat, modest mouse, mos def, mott the hoople, the mountain goats, moving units, my darling YOU!, neil diamond, neil young, neko case, neutral milk hotel, neva dinova, nico, of montreal, oh no! oh my!, optiganally yours, ornamental wigwam, otis redding, the pastels, peaches, pere ubu, peter bjorn and john, pink spiders, pixies, pj harvey, postal service, public enemy, pulp, queen, r.e.m., r.l. burnside, radiohead, the raincoats, rancid, the rapture, the rascals, ratatat, the ravonettes, regina spektor, replacements, roky erickson, rolling stones, ryan adams, screeching weasel, the shins, the small faces, the smiths, smoking popes, sparklehorse, spinto band, squarepusher, stellastarr*, stiff little fingers, the stranglers, the streets, the streets, the strokes, surfjan stevens, the sundays, sun ra, t rex, ted leo and the pharmacists, television, tilly and the wall, they might be giants, tom jones, tracy + the plastics, troubled hubble, tv on the radio, U2, the unicorns, the vaselines, the velvet underground, the ventures, verde, violent femmes, the walkmen, wilco, wire, X, yeah yeah yeahs, yo la tengo, the zebras, the zombies

Yes, I'm being incredibly imperious and snotty, but I still be you'll be surprised.

...and it should be Which Vaccuous Pop Irritant's "Influences" LISTis this?, obviously.

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio..."

P.S. Mandy Moore likes Jandek. And starred in Southland Tales.

It was who I thought it was. (First MySpace page I checked -- So not, not all that surprised.) But I won't give it away.

damn i cant believe a girl would like good music

I love her song when it comes on the radio. I definitely think that she could be into a shit-ton of these bands, but I'll admit that the list seems like it might be a little padded.

Double Donovans.

Double Peaches.

xp Well, to be fair, lots of that music isn't good.

damn i cant believe a girl would like good music

Fixed ha ha

ha ha I also got it in one. Don't really understand why this is so o_0 TBH

::checks the name of the original poster::

oh right

wtf is 'oh no! oh my!'?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Yl6uhyizYo/Rol-qwtltGI/AAAAAAAAA8o/Y4X9Vg25QjU/s400/oh%2Bno%2Boh%2Bmy.gif

^ dunno whether to laugh or barf

ha yeah, this is obvious

gotta say, my wife was really annoyed with this woman before seeing her perform on someone's show (I think Wendy Williams?) and now she's an unabashed fan

Guessed it as well.

Can we have a counterthread where one of Alex's favorites wears a 3OH!3 shirt and lists nothing but Hilary Duff and Hilary Duff remixes as influences?

...and it should be Which Vaccuous Pop Irritant's "Influences" LISTis this?, obviously.

Actually, it should be Which Vacuous Pop Irritant's "Influences" LIST is this?

:p

xp: I would like to make that happen so badly.

Is it DJ Martian?

having worked in entertainment and web 2.0 promotion, i can almost guarantee that she didn't write this list. it's probably more like someone said "make a list of 'influences' that will help [xx$xx] appeal to the indie audience."

fixed the title.

(no idea w/r/t the question though!)

Well, we are now a higher google search result for this list than her myspace is.

Queen, Beach Boys, Heart, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Alanis, Imogen Heap, Gwen S, your mom, Rufus Wainwright and anyone who is heavily influencable. Where's the spell check on here myspace?

Wuh? Any guesses as to whose this is?

"make a list of 'influences' that will help (xx$xx) appeal to the indie audience."

Now if that was really her name...

I smell a remix!

Yes! that would be funny (xpost to ned). I saw the person's myspace, I've never heard of her!

it's probably more like someone said "make a list of 'influences' that will help [xx$xx] appeal to the indie audience."

Kinda think you're overestimating how important 'appealing to the indie audience' is here, tbh

List is sort of weird but does read to me like one person's hypothetical taste in music - reminds me of quite a lot of ppl I know who are basically 'indie' but not by design so much as their tastes just... gravitated that way

Y'know what I think it is that's so upsetting about Shania wearing Ramones and AC/DC shirts? It's that she herself is nothing but a sparkless careerist. Based on her press, she's has nothing but contempt for her audience and positively LOATHES being a "public person." Beyond that, her music is completely inconsequential, banal and rife with the same amount of meaningless cliché that plagues, say, the Corrs! Meanwhile, whether you appreciate them or not, the Ramones and AC/DC are artists who have *INSPIRED* people. There are more bands that were spawned in the wake of these two giant names than Shania could ever hope to affect. The Ramones and AC/DC inspire *PASSION* in their fans, whereas Shania merely manufactures fucking PRODUCT and shifts units to consumers who clearly don't have very high musical standards (does this make them subhuman? No, just that music doesn't interest them). Therefore, it is offensive to folks who *DO* take music seriously (whether you think that's silly or not) that Shania is limply trying to imply some affinity/appreciation for individuals who actually make music of quality. I doubt Shania even enjoys music to begin with.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, January 21, 2003 9:44 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I googled the artist based on the list, never heard of her either.

SIMON: I'm told you had just about the perfect SAT scores.

Ms. SEBERT: It was close - 1500. I was, like, very studious. I was actually in the international baccalaureate program, in AP, I, like, loved physics and math and I was in the marching band. And then after that practice I would drive to Belmont - it's a college in Nashville - and just for fun listen in on Cold War history classes. Just 'cause I just think it's so interesting.

And I was so curious kind of about all that I ended up taking my first solo trip to Cuba. So point being: I was very studious and really curious about a lot of things that are much deeper than, you know, partying and dancing.

Also I suspect when lady pop stars wear t-shirts w/ logos of bands they probably don't care for, it's less an attempt at edginess than just because they have logos that look good

Interestingly, not many of these apparent influences make the list:

One of the benefits of the half-talk-half-rap delivery she uses for many of her verses is that it’s infinitely plastic; she can adopt any tone, apply any level of sarcasm or referentiality. At various times throughout the album I thought I heard Kim Gordon, Moon Unit Zappa, Johnnette Napolitano, Debora Iyall (Romeo Void), Deborah Evans-Stickland (Flying Lizards), Kathleen Hanna, and Laurie Anderson. Which if you’re trying to make a list of feminist forebears is about as good as you can hope for, and I hope I’m not just hallucinating the similarities. (Definitely not with Laurie Anderson.)

http://aceterrier.tumblr.com/post/439283435/we-are-in-the-second-week-of-the-third-month-of

P.S. Mandy Moore likes Jandek.

At various times throughout the album I thought I heard Kim Gordon, Moon Unit Zappa, Johnnette Napolitano, Debora Iyall (Romeo Void), Deborah Evans-Stickland (Flying Lizards), Kathleen Hanna, and Laurie Anderson.

I always hear L'Trimm.

(Guessed it in one too.)

xposts

Yeah, I was going to say -- suprised L'Trimm, Salt N Pepa, or Daphne and Celeste didn't make the list. (And it would be cool if she had Brownsville Station, the Dictators, and the Tubes up there; maybe she'll add them later.)

How many people in their early 20s are realistically gonna know L'Trimm at this point, rilly? Even when they sound a bit like them. I mean I love L'Trimm but

Who is AceTerrier, btw? I've seen his/her blog posted all over the place lately.

Um just in case anyone gives a rat's ass, it's Ke$ha. And the Queen, Beach Boys, heart, etc. one NickB posted above is Katy Perry (my first guess).

Can we have a counterthread where one of Alex's favorites wears a 3OH!3 shirt and lists nothing but Hilary Duff and Hilary Duff remixes as influences?

xhuxk, didn't you write that Stacey Q wore Motorhead t-shirts? Not sure if that fits or if it was a joke to begin with but...

Was it Motorhead, or was it Sex Pistols? But either way, she definitely worse shirts. (Sometimes, anyway -- in at least one photo published in I think Toronto's Eye Weekly in the '90s, she wore body paint instead.)

xp I'm told Ace Terrier is one Jonathan Bogart (who I'm pretty sure I'd never knowingly read a word by until last week.)

Sounds Like god having an orgasm

hope that doesn't give it away!

xp...definitely wore shirts....

last year Miley Cyrus made a big deal of wanting to meet Radiohead at the Grammys, and a few months later said that she's never heard a Jay-Z song and doesn't listen to pop music. I think general cynicism about pop music is so widespread that even the people that make it, especially the young singers, are just kind of dismissive of what they do and try to make sure everyone knows they like much cooler music than the stuff they get rich off of.

and I guess ostensibly having a bunch of pop stars with cool underground influences would make pop more interesting, but instead I think them being so divorced from what they do, taking songs they don't like from producers/songwriters and just kind of going through the motions with them (and maybe later doing a 'difficult' record once their career's already on the wane), is just a huge drag.

That anti-Shania rant above contains some literal lolz.

For the record, I'm subhuman. (Does Alex in NYC like The Subhumans?)

She might like all that stuff. Equally, whichever music writer is employed to maintain her MySpace might like all that stuff.

Some of that stuff may even have influenced her music, believe it or not (and not just the indie-style track she ends her album with.)

wikipedia says her mom is a singer / songwriter, so it may come from that.

i hope that doesn't give it away either

Other parts of the page are misspelled enough that I doubt they were made by the same author who included "Optiganally Yours" in the list.

Once again, I like her music and don't mean this as a diss. I think it's entirely possible, even likely, that she could have a fulfilling music collection.

sleepytime jayzanna muse

I hated the video version of the single but that live version is actually pretty damn good. Maybe it's just the production and the horrible autotune processing of the single that I didn't like. eep. When she sings it normally it's just fun bubblegum.

wow this is pretty otm - found the original all sorts of unlistenable but take the trebly autotune vomit away and the hooky bubblegum pop song is revealed - it's almost too nursery-rhymey and lite now. i said on the jukebox that i don't think her songs suck because she's incapable of better, but more because trebly autotune vomit is the common currency of the charts these days, and she seems intent on being more trebly, more autotuney and more vomity than anyone else.

talking of the uk funky thread, we are aware that for some inexplicable reason there are remixes of "tik tok" by cooly g and untold, right?

Vampire Newsom

I think her mom being a hardcore industry insider makes her getting seemingly random cred remixes somewhat more explicable.

Dreamboat Joanna

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezbyAQ9AOZg

(not lol enough that I'd listen to it all the way through, but it's cute)

hahahahahahahaha this is awesome

I tried searching for this thread but I couldn't find it because I forgot that vacuous was misspelled.

Oh that's right, none of you have EVER misspelled a word in your lives. Silly me.

cufk you alex

lern how to spel, it makes your arguments seems more coherent

oh right, they "upload" it to their "beards" and then "crawl" up the "red ladder" to listen to their "music"

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Que has been on some next-level shit lately.

found the original all sorts of unlistenable but take the trebly autotune vomit away and the hooky bubblegum pop song is revealed - it's almost too nursery-rhymey and lite now

ha, that is just about exactly the mental process that led to me throwing together this bit of cheap:

http://agrammar.tumblr.com/post/450150718/ke-ha-came-over-and-was-all-like-gray-skies-are

I "never" make a spelling error, but occasionally "mistype" something and either "don't notice" or "decide to let it stand".

Hey look what I found
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4008/4441352941_503cc11327.jpg

lolololol

Zzz

is that fugazi

she seems intent on being more trebly, more autotuney and more vomity than anyone else.

This is part of why: a) I like the single and b) I'd find it pretty interesting - not impossible to believe but just interesting - if Jim O'Rourke was a fan of hers. Her production aesthetic seems pretty antithetical to his.

"were a fan"

alex your schtick is becoming a little too self-aware. try to switch it up a bit more.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/who-are-kehas-influences,39338/

that performance is cassie-on-106 and park level bad

It reminds me of the T-1000 falling into a vat of molten steel, squealing and blurping and frantically trying to save itself as it cycles through all the different shapes it had adopted.

This is Avril Lavigne or Pink, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv6fDt7UkVI

Hi my name is Tim and I pay for my rent by wearing a giant TV on my head

so, to recap...

- terrible sloppy live performances
- 'charming' interview persona
- lyrics full of Jack Daniels name-dropping
- from Nashville

... maybe Ke$ha's just an alcoholic?

Makes me wonder if I was all that as a 23 year old alcoholic video store manager.

MIA, Beck, Rolling Stones, Devo, Flock of Seagulls, kraftwork, Daniel Johnson, talking Heads, David Bowie, Donovan, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Janet and Sir Michael Jackson, Avenue A, The Go! Team, Mika, Sonic Youth, Elton John, Willlie Nelson, Gwen Stefani, Madonna, Beastie Boys, Eagles of Death Metal, Black Keys, Black Eyed Peas, Daft Punk, Electric 6, Teenager, Tonite Only, Prince,Mirwais, Afrika Bambaata, Peaches, Rock&Roll, Richard X, Cornelius, ESG,6ths, ackron family, al green, andrew bird, anthrax, aphex twin, aphid ant constructions, arcade fire, archers of loaf, ataxia, badfinger, the bang up, beck, belle &; sebastian, ben lee, beulah, big star, black flag, the blow, boards of canada, bob dylan, brian eno, brian wilson, bright eyes, built to spill, butthole surfers, the cardigans, the carpenters, casiotone for the painfully alone, the clash, the clutters, daft punk, the damned, the dandy warhols, david bowie, the dead milkmen, devandra banhart, donovan, dresden dolls, the eels, elvis costello, eric's trip, the fall, the features, fischerspooner, frank black, frank sinatra, franz ferdinand, futurheads, gary glitter, generation x, ghostface killah, gogol bordello, gorillaz, guided by voices, her space holiday, how i became the bomb, human television, iggy pop, islands, jackson 5, jawbreaker, jenny lewis, jim o'rourke, joan jett, joe jack talcum, john frusciante, johnny thunders, the killers, kimya dawson, the kinks, kraftwerk, LCD soundsystem, le tigre, the lemonheads, leonard cohen, little ones, lou barlow, love, the lovely feathers, marshal crenshaw, matisyahu, matmos, miles davis, minor threat, modest mouse, mos def, mott the hoople, the mountain goats, moving units, my darling YOU!, neil diamond, neil young, neko case, neutral milk hotel, neva dinova, nico, of montreal, oh no! oh my!, optiganally yours, ornamental wigwam, otis redding, the pastels, peaches, pere ubu, peter bjorn and john, pink spiders, pixies, pj harvey, postal service, public enemy, pulp, queen, r.e.m., r.l. burnside, radiohead, the raincoats, rancid, the rapture, the rascals, ratatat, the ravonettes, regina spektor, replacements, roky erickson, rolling stones, ryan adams, screeching weasel, the shins, the small faces, the RACIST smiths, smoking popes, sparklehorse, spinto band, squarepusher, stellastarr*, stiff little fingers, the stranglers, the streets, the streets, the strokes, surfjan stevens, the sundays, sun ra, t rex, ted leo and the pharmacists, television, tilly and the wall, they might be giants, tom jones, tracy + the plastics, troubled hubble, tv on the radio, U2, the unicorns, the vaselines, the velvet underground, the ventures, verde, violent femmes, the walkmen, wilco, wire, X, yeah yeah yeahs, yo la tengo, the zebras, the zombies

list drunkenly adjusted to account only for good music

what is "kraftwork"?

what is "ackron family"??

daft punk is on the list twice

david bowie is on the list twice

how in the fucking fuck is the fall on a list of influences for ke$ha?????

kraftwerk is on the list TWICE

who in the fuck are the "ravonettes"????

"the streets, the streets"

im drunk

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6bw5m6fZShI/SxcgIDMZ4WI/AAAAAAAACt4/VLQyIizXxV8/s400/ed+lover+come+on+son.jpg

hahahaha A++ @ drunken ilxor

ha dude

fuck shit up

lol at

i mean

crossing out rancid is poor form dude, take a look in the mirror

crossing out bob dylan, leaving in mia/the yeah yeah yeahs/_____

that badfinger cross out means war

Bracket polls for Ke$ha's influences, please. Including double entries.

That definitely does not need to be a poll

This young people trying to be tough thing is a major turn off...even lady gaga is doing it.

i mean if you can't peep the joie de vivre of some spikey haired bros from the east bay who have nothing but a song in their hearts, well, i just don't know

Doesn't look like there's much rhyme or reason to what I crossed out, in retrospect.

lol

\o_O/

crossing out rock & roll is such a lame challop

lol just noticed she spelled it SURFJAN STEVENS like he's a surfer or something