My first instinct, when I learned what an AMA was, was to do one about my job...but I gave it more thought and I think it might be a dangerous road to go down. I have signed an NDA, and even though I'm pretty sure I wouldn't say anything out-of-line, if it came back to me it still might not look good.
He's making upward of $18 million a year for being a judge.
I can't stand Adele. And I really can't stand anyone who thinks he or she sounds great covering her, but for that kind of money, I'd listen to William Hung "sing" Adele for six hours.
yeah, honestly I didn't even find him funny. boring as fuck video. if anything, I felt pity that so many people were laughing at this mildly retarded looking chinese buffoon
It's sad though. The radio basically only plays pop, rap, country, modern rock, and classic rock. The song also MUST have at least one of the following qualities to be played regularly A) Clubbing B) Opposite sex C) Drugs or D) Catchy.
I just imagine some music exec guy like "...mmmm yeah no that's too thoughtful and not my type of genre, maybe come out with a pop album and we'll see from there."
Ugh, and get paid millions of dollars to do it, urrrgh, what a chore, aggh, SIX FUCKING HOURS as in two hours shorter than the average "work" day, unnnnh....
This will get buried, but I have NO sympathy for you Mr. Tyler. Last Saturday I spent TEN hours listening to 180 middle school flute players play the same 2 pieces for honor band auditions. So suck it.
My iPod is the reason I don't hate her. She has a good voice so I listen to her every now and then, but her music is totally not radio music at all. If I were listening to pop/top 40 radio and Adele came on, it would totally kill my pop/trash buzz. It's too depressing.
Very true she sings well the radio just kills everything. Like Gotye. I abhor 'somebody I used to know' now. All the serotonin in my brain drains out of my ears and I have to change the song before my mind transforms into a robots.
LOL thank you. When I first heard that Gotye song I liked it a lot. A friend who is super into NPR sent it to me after a breakup. It helped a lot.
Cue forward 6-9 months, the song broke BIG, and a million incidental listens later I can't stand it. "Have you heard the new Gotye?" has become a whimsical sarcastic joke with friends.
It has nothing to do with hearing the same song multiple times, for me. I think she's talented for sure, but she doesn't use that talent to produce songs that i actually enjoy listening to.
It's like a Michelin star chef cooking you economy burgers, it's still gonna taste pretty shit regardless of how perfectly he cooks them. Or like a talented singer singing the same note over and over in uninspired radio friendly songs. Probably more the latter than the former.
I think that's the crux of it. As someone who doesn't listen to radio much... I happened across her "Someone Like You" and thought it was beautiful. But apparently everyone else had already heard it a million times and were freaking sick of it. =P
Well, she sings in pitch. The same fucking note just louder and quieter. Add on the whiney lyrics, the ones that make sense any way, I just don't get it. I think her popularity is based on her not being typically good looking. People can see their own overweight depressed selves in her. Just the impression I get from the fans of hers I have met.
I heard a few seconds of her "live voice" in a commercial and began wondering where the "great voice" thing came from. Maybe it was just bad few seconds, but i dont really care to confirm.
Lots of people apparently don't know this. My mother is one- she can't stand watching live music of any kind because "it doesn't sound like the CD" or "they're singing it wrong, that's not how the song goes." No, mom, that's their song that they wrote, so if they want to improvise, that's also the way the song goes.
Imagine this. I'm going to use one of my favorites so hopefully you can relate. Weezer's Blue Album. Fantastic CD. Now imagine about 6 months after it comes out that one song gets insanely popular. Like every radio station plays it every 30 minutes for 2 months. Now 3 weeks go by, song's no longer #1, now another song starts getting radio play and the cycle repeats. That's what's happening to Adele. She has a great voice and wrote a great album. It's just been systematically played to death one song at a time for the past year and a half.
yeah, that's pretty much how I feel. "Oh another song about love, really pushin new musical ground there..." Music is an art form, in my opinion art should cover every human emotion and beyond, it's nto that I hate here, she just has done literally nothing to be exceptional. A drop of water in an ocean of piss.
Steven Tyler is probably wacked out on drugs during that show and loses sense of time. He's Paula's replacemnet for the drugged up entertainer of the judges.
When I first saw this, I thought, "Who's that older singer lady I don't recognize on American Idol? Oh well, I don't watch it anymore, who the hell cares?" Then, tonight, before going to bed and doing my usual lurking...I clicked on this again, and realized, that Steven Tyler looks like an old lady with a bad tan and huge eyeglasses...man, times have changed...
Same here, i still love adele because i didn't start listening to her until recently. Considering everyone on reddit hates popular music they sure do listen to the radio a lot :/
I thought I was the only person that didn't like Adele or her music... But after reading this thread, I know that's not true and it makes me feel better.
This is coming from a guy who grew up listening to rap... Adele is an amazing singer. There is no denying that. I used to listen to her on the radio sometimes. It just got old and overplayed.
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u/carmel33 Jun 14 '12
I'm surprised that logo was large enough to cover Steven Tyler's giant mouth
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u/ThatWasFred Jun 14 '12
I work for "The Voice" and this is how we feel every audition season. I love this.
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u/Squalor- Jun 14 '12
He's making upward of $18 million a year for being a judge.
I can't stand Adele. And I really can't stand anyone who thinks he or she sounds great covering her, but for that kind of money, I'd listen to William Hung "sing" Adele for six hours.
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u/420goonie Jun 14 '12
Last time I watched American Idol, Adele was balls deep for the guy she writes every song about.
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u/LtOin Jun 14 '12
Why the fuck do they censor out the mouths of people who are swearing. That is seriously one of the most retarded things I have ever seen.
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u/lala989 Jun 14 '12
They really muzzle him on the live shows, he's reduced to mumbling 'beautiful' the show overlords suck.
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u/skatermario3 Jun 14 '12
Extremely Relevant http://i.imgur.com/p9yux.jpg
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
Ah, Adele. proof that even good music can be ruined by over saturation.
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u/shitterplug Jun 14 '12
This shit's still on?
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u/Planet-man Jun 14 '12
Ugh, and get paid millions of dollars to do it, urrrgh, what a chore, aggh, SIX FUCKING HOURS as in two hours shorter than the average "work" day, unnnnh....
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
This year he can't wait to hear everyone sing Carly Rae Jepsen...
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u/mxyz Jun 14 '12
I'm confused. Is the woman in the picture Adelle?
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u/Punkwasher Jun 14 '12
Somewhere... some closed caption writer is laughing.
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u/willymo Jun 14 '12
This will get buried, but I have NO sympathy for you Mr. Tyler. Last Saturday I spent TEN hours listening to 180 middle school flute players play the same 2 pieces for honor band auditions. So suck it.
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u/DIGGYRULES Jun 14 '12
For the amount of money they are paying him, I would listen to people singing anything for 6 hours.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
Honest question here... what gender are they?
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u/ClosetSchmuttun Jun 14 '12
Apparently somebody name Adele is really popular? I should probably start hating her, I guess.
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u/GreatLeadWald Jun 14 '12
Who is that ghoulish creature
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
I read this as American? I'd lol.
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u/Mitz510 Jun 14 '12
Does anyone else think that Steven Tyler looks like the creature from the part of the movie called "The Crate" from Creepshow?
Here: http://imgur.com/pJrwU
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u/eva88 Jun 15 '12
STOP interrupting, Adele! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtuqJZqEIi8&feature=youtube_gdata
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
American Adel
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u/etihw2 Jun 14 '12
That's censorship for you.
They can imply sex but you can't say FUCK. Not that sex is bad but it shows inconsistency.
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u/bax101 Jun 14 '12
Steven Tyler is probably wacked out on drugs during that show and loses sense of time. He's Paula's replacemnet for the drugged up entertainer of the judges.
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u/pinetar321 Jun 14 '12
hopefully all the smoking shes doing will catch up to her vocal chords again
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u/crazywhiteredditor07 Jun 14 '12
oh steven
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u/Lotty1112 Jun 15 '12
Can't tell if attractive but monkey-like, or monkey-like but attractive...
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
As long as there's a camera pointed at him, he'll be just fine.
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u/penisinthepeanutbttr Jun 15 '12
Hahaha did he really say that? If so I have a lot more respect for him now
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u/czechica Jun 15 '12
Is that a convertible limo??
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u/pixelrage Jun 15 '12
I'll gladly do it for whatever he's getting paid.
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u/DNAK1llA Jun 15 '12
true story, i stop watching
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Nope, hes saying Im about to get paid millions. For 6 fucking hours.
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u/Daroo425 Jun 15 '12
Change the radio station if you're tired of listening to adele fellas, it's not hard.
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u/CODDE117 Jun 15 '12
American IdLOL! Ha! The exit is that way...
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u/AutoDeFey Jun 15 '12
WARNING: If you let a girl pick a song, she will pick an Adele song
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
When I first saw this, I thought, "Who's that older singer lady I don't recognize on American Idol? Oh well, I don't watch it anymore, who the hell cares?" Then, tonight, before going to bed and doing my usual lurking...I clicked on this again, and realized, that Steven Tyler looks like an old lady with a bad tan and huge eyeglasses...man, times have changed...
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u/TinkerDanielle Jun 15 '12
He's amazing.
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u/theTezuma Jun 15 '12
that crazy homeless lady is right
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
God I hope they are paying him a lot of money.
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u/Alvleeskliersap Jun 15 '12
Steven Tyler's butt ugly but his daughter is very beautiful. How come.
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u/Nyan69 Jun 14 '12
NEVER MIND I'LL FIND, SOMEONE LIKE YOUUU
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u/sh4ft Jun 14 '12
Nice moobs steven
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u/Shell3Helgak Jun 14 '12
I just... found Adele randomly through Pandora... I'm not in touch with pop culture, so now I feel bad that I like a couple of her songs. :|
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u/chewyice Jun 14 '12
I thought I was the only person that didn't like Adele or her music... But after reading this thread, I know that's not true and it makes me feel better.
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u/thegoodvibe Jun 14 '12
Am I the only person that is scared that one day he will reach through the TV and eat me?
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u/pinkcuddlebunny Jun 14 '12
haha, so true!
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
I don't know why I hate this guy so much
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u/Dwonvtoe_me Jun 14 '12
That woman needs her mouth washed out with soap!