Scott's MD-PhD Adventure

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Tell us how you really feel

I love Whitney Pastorek. Her writing makes me giggle, especially her piece about blogs. Even her biography is funny, which she clearly wrote herself.
This week, she did a chart review for the top10 songs from 2000.
Check it out.
Example:
9. Creed, ''Higher''
Okay, I think I'm ready to speak openly and honestly about Creed, in light of this, their first real pop-crossover hit. So. Set aside for a second that Scott Stapp is perhaps the biggest tool ever to walk the earth, with his Bono mullet and messiah complex and Eddie Vedder-lite vocals and addiction to painkillers or whatever it was that tanked his career. And forget for a minute that every video this band ever made involved them standing on a cliff or in a lake with wind sweeping through their thinning hair. Ignore the ''heavy''guitar riffs here that sound like someone's mommy didn't let him listen to enough Judas Priest when he was a kid so he's acting out now, except he's scared to really crank it to 11 lest his mommy tell him to keep it down. And finally, pretend that none of these lyrics are kind of about Jesus. What do you have left? A band that sold a bajillion records because of songs that you can probably sing by heart to this very day, despite your best efforts to block them out. Is that so bad? Unfortunately, yes. Yes, it is. I'm splitting this one into two grades: The song gets a C, because it is catchy and when taken alone it really is not as bad as I remember. But to make up for that, the entire existence of Creed gets a D-."

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