Sunday, April 29, 2007

THE ARCTIC MONKEYS - "THAT MAN JUST YAWNED!"


"THAT MAN JUST YAWNED!!"

First up -- we got Matt Dillon introducing the band on Saturday Night Live. I can't believe this guy is still around.... doing... much of anything... seriously. But anways.... ITs America, and we have an equal opportunity system in entertainment. We hawk them around back and forth to endorse products and crappy movies that in turn endorse more crappy products. There is NO SAVING GRACE when it comes to this shit... Its endless. Thats why I do not understand the snobbery that comes up in entertainment... whether you like Ellen, Oprah, WWF, or Nancy Grace.. These are all terrible crappy products...... SNL is a commercial to hawk Coke and Mc Donalds.

Bands have been snubbed on SNL countless times because the audience does not "GET IT". This happened to the B-52's, The Replacements and now..... THE ARCTIC MONKEYS.

I think its worth mentioning that the singer points out to the audience that someone in the audience yawned. Funny shit. They were obviously a bit turned off with America too. This is not an American song in the first place. Its a FRIGGEN LOCAL SONG about the Arctic Monkeys living environment in the streets where they come from. Its not a song about T & A, big trucks and or whiney Eddie Veddar garbage that our American radio system is used to.

This is different -- its unique. SO CONSEQUENTLY it will be jeered. WHO NEEDS SEX when you got this kind of sound. This stuff is powerful. These guys are powerful. I know these guys don't give a toss either way because they are big shots where they hail from.

Americans need a few key ingredients to stay "alive". Music isn't one of them. We even have to have our "entertainment scene" manufactured to us weekly and served on a cold frozen plate along with the other crappy pre-fab pre-packaged stuff one finds in the frozen aisle. We are a country of consuming filters who are homogenized and content, (or malcontent) with the unsavory choices that are put out in front of them. Pigs are the same way really. They just accept what they get. "Dancing With the Stars", and of course "American Idol" come to mind.

I have nothing against Kelly Clarkston as a person. But we strip out originality and rebellion for a pop MILF out of convenience. You know. there are OTHER things you can do with your money when it comes to music. There are other outlets besides Target, Walmart and Costco.

sad sad times. The Arctic Monkeys are brilliant. Honestly.

Too brilliant to be schlagging across the stage for mind numbingly boring Americans.
It hardly matters if you get snubbed on SNL by castmembers and audience alike. That is such a worthless way to measure true talent. SNL should have died 20 years ago.

Cantu 2007

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