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Though she's always made that clear, it seems.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, so she'll kiss a Canadian but not another woman - WTF?!!!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahah

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

a quick check of God's 'to do' list reveals the following:

1. Continue to allow suffering
2. Plan worst ever hurricane
3. Listen in on Radio 4 debate as to whether or not i exist
4. Give permission for Beyonce to wear micropants and spangly bra

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

5. Tell Deion Sanders all automotive repairs are on the house

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

6. Fuck with the Red Sox and Cubs

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

"It's entertainment and I believe God is OK with that."

What was the Madonna-Britney-Xina kiss thing if not entertainment? Or maybe they're all really in love?

Beyonce's a hick.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

7. cancel exploited show in montreal, cause riot

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh so it's ok for her boyfriend to be gay but not Britney, wtf is that nonsense?

― Ally-zay, Wednesday, 15 October 2003 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Jay-Z is gay?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

i guess he got permision

― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

God: "Be gay if you like."
Jay-Z: "But I AM God! Shut up, I already decided."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

jay-z's little richard now?

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

As with J-Lo, I'm getting a little bit over Beyonce...

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Britney's Angie Dickinson impression on the Esquire cover this month stomps all over Beyoncé's booty.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, Beyonce has got She-Ra ass worse than I do anyway, I gotta defend her on that one.

― Ally-zay, Wednesday, 15 October 2003 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

do i want to know what "she-ra ass" is¿

― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Belated follow-up single for Foreigner?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh now, you know I gotta stick up for her ghetto ass - hell, I have it worse than she does... I think it's just oversaturation

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

dyson, I defined it in the Fall Fashion thread but here you go:

http://members.aol.com/abishort/she-ra/pictures/Angella.gif
(that's actually She-Ra's mother but it's all the same)

― Ally-zay, Wednesday, 15 October 2003 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

nice ass

― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

It's like you have a bustle on, but it's your ass. Plus huge, muscular, man-killing thighs. This is in comparison to Sailor Moon ass, which is willowy spindly legs, like those on for example Gwyneth Paltrow. She does NOT have She-Ra ass.

Confusion ended. I wonder if I have permission from god to discuss this?

― Ally-zay, Wednesday, 15 October 2003 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Barbarella was on TV last night. I honest-to-God had no idea how many bands are named after things in that movie!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't you fucking LOVE they way they pronounce "Duran Duran" in that movie?

― Ally-zay, Wednesday, 15 October 2003 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

the character's name is actually "durand durand".

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

But it's not the pronounciation of the end 'd' that I find funny!

― Ally-zay, Wednesday, 15 October 2003 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Barbarella is not supposed to be funny. It's serious. Serious, I tells ya.

― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

DOOOOO-ran DOOOOOO-ran. HAHAHAHA!

― Ally-zay, Wednesday, 15 October 2003 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

re: those britney esquire pics - oh jesus christ

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually I thought they pronounced it joo-rahn joo-rahn in the movie, but I might have alvy singer ears.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

but she DID say 'wife'!

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard "Joo-ronde Joo-ronde"

NB: I haven't seen since this in like 15 years, shame on me, I know.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

what's even more fucked up? does anybody remember the Tiny Toons ep where they ripped on Barbarella? They even had Babs doing the voice? How many kids got THOSE jokes?

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 16 October 2003 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

still, Beyonce don't know nothin'
'till she's down on the muff n'
then she's sure to be changin' ways...

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 16 October 2003 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

*snort* I like how this thread has suddenly turned from something I'm terribly disinterested in to something that hits especially close to home. Oh dear God, the mere fact that I actually sat through Barbarella even one time because "a real fan would, you know"... dear God, I think I needed an aspirin or five to combat that headache.

"Princess of my dreams"? Pshyeah, sure. ;)

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 16 October 2003 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

re: those britney esquire pics - oh jesus christ

Are they that bad or that good? All I've seen is the cover, and you can't go wrong jocking Angie Dickinson.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 16 October 2003 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

that good!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 16 October 2003 07:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i think there's a couple of pics here.

hmm. yep. Britney will be doing Maxim/Playboy stuff w/in 3 years. you can count on that.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 16 October 2003 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Eww, by then she'll be all old, like 23 or something. Gross.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 16 October 2003 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Macho Man Randy Savage wrestles his way through a new rap album
By Pauline M. Millard
NEW YORK (AP) — This may be the first time a pro wrestler has insisted that he’s keeping it real.
But now that Randy (Macho Man) Savage is a rapper, it’s only fitting that he’s got a real beef.
On the title track of his new CD, Be a Man, Savage goes at longtime foil Hulk Hogan — questioning why Hogan won’t step up to him one last time, talking trash about his acting skills and challenging him to a match:
“Ya hidin’ man but when I find you it’s on, And when I slam ya to the dirt you’ll wish you’s never born, I smell a coward mmmm is that you Hogan, Macho’s gonna kick ya butt is the slogan.”
Savage insists that he’s serious.
It’s just the latest career move for the 51-year-old muscleman, who “won” five world titles in a long wrestling career, performed for 93,000 fans in 1987’s Wrestlemania III, acted in the movies Spider Man and Tarzan II and served an arduous tour of duty as the spokesman for Slim Jim beef jerky.
The album, on the independent Big 3 Records, is mostly rap with rock influences, plus one love song for good measure. It was written mostly by Big 3’s in-house team of writers, Da Raskulls. DJ Kool of Let Me Clear My Throat fame offers his help on one track, Hit the Floor.
Savage talked about his project in his trademark low, gravelly voice via phone from Los Angeles.
AP: Are you a rap fan?
Savage: I grew up on rock ’n’ roll but recently I got into Eminem and Run DMC and other rap and hip-hop acts.
AP: Why record an album? Why now?
Savage: I’ve always been a fan of music so when I met the chairman from Big 3 records (Bill Edwards) I realized I should take the opportunity. At first it was hard, getting into rapping and all, but I had a great writing team, Da Raskulls, and they wrote me some great stuff.
AP: What are your goals as a musician?
Savage: I’m just trying to have fun, but I can’t stress enough that this isn’t a novelty act. I’m in this for the long haul. I’m not writing a book about my life like most people do. Instead, I’m making music.
AP: What about your beefs with Hulk Hogan?
Savage: Hulk Hogan and I have many beefs, mainly because he has been spreading a lot of untruths about me and my family in the media. I asked him a while ago to face me in the ring one more time and settle it. The proceeds for the fight were supposed to go a children’s hospital in Florida and he wouldn’t do it.
AP: Didn’t you guys used to be friends?
Savage: We were acquaintances at best, even when we were a tag team. But in wrestling there is a lot of backstabbing and basically that’s what happened with Hogan and I.
AP: Is this a real fight or just a fake wrestling fight for publicity?
Savage: This is a very real fight. All I want is to face Hogan one more time and then we can be at peace. I think it’s the best way. After all, if a man gets called out, you have to answer to that, but Hogan won’t face me.
AP: I read that there was some lip-syncing at one of your concerts.
Savage: That’s not true at all. Hulk Hogan sent his people out to the show wearing T-shirts that read “Macho Man Sucks.” Luckily, the security guys didn’t let them in and they had to stay across the street. It was just Hulk Hogan trying to start with me again. Then he had some fans write on some web site that I was lip-syncing at the concert. But sometimes perception is reality and people believe what they read in the media.
Savage: I think that it has gotten to a point where everything is so over the top and they just keep pushing the envelope. Some of these recent story lines I’ve heard are just so bizarre. Luckily, there are some good leaders in the WWE like the Rock and The Undertaker who are positive role models. However, I still say that Hogan and I need to go face to face one more time and then we can move on and pass the torch to the next generation.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 16 October 2003 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

oh God Bless America

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 16 October 2003 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, now that Jay-Z is no longer the baddest dude in rap (cuz Savage is--I mean, he calls his album Be A Man!!!) anybody wanna place odds on how soon good little Beyonce and her blessed booty shack up with the Macho Man?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 16 October 2003 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

yup, cuz we all know how successful his last shack-up with a much younger ingenue went.

(hint for those who didn't watch WCW in 99/00 -- not very).

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 16 October 2003 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Or how well his original Macho Queen is doing at the moment...

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 16 October 2003 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Leapin Lenny Poffo guest stars

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 16 October 2003 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you think Randy bit some of Lenny's rhymes from his Genius period for the album?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 16 October 2003 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

and a couple of frisbees to throw out to the crowd. "The Genius"

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 16 October 2003 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

TS: The Genius vs Jameson

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 16 October 2003 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Wasn't there another Poffo brother in wrestling?

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 16 October 2003 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.canadianbacon.org/~oww/pic/l/lannypoffo/04.jpg

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 16 October 2003 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

greatest moment of Saturday Night's Main Event evah was when the Macho Man was getting his ass handed to him by the Hart Foundation, and Miss Elizabeth ran the locker room to get Hulk Hogan to come in for the save. Man, the years before the run-in--what a different time.

this shit was DYNAMITE when you're 11-12 and watching it transpire on TV in 1987-88.

Of course, they later divorced, Elizabeth got surgery, started hanging around with Lex Luger, and now she's dead.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 16 October 2003 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Good god. I've just wasted the rest of my day.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 16 October 2003 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

That webpage is stalkerrific Chris! However, it loses points for not pointing out that Wendi Richter was victim of the first ever WWF double-cross, 12 years before Montreal.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 16 October 2003 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

The red background of that site REALLY hurts my eyes though.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 16 October 2003 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

POV: Villianos

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 16 October 2003 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

see also, Wrestlecrap, coming to a bookstore near you:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1550225847.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 16 October 2003 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

(cough cough) Back to topic! Cause it is VERY important!

Beyonce said "I want to be respected and remembered for my talent in the first place, not for my booty."
B-but what about that song? You know, the one called Bootylicious? WTF?

Also, she says that one famous photographer tried to preasure her into getting naked and pouring honey all over herself for a shoot. How could she refuse that? Doesn't god like honey?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 16 October 2003 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

do you think God wanted her to be so mean to all the ex-Destiny's Children?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 16 October 2003 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I know God, and if there's one thing She likes it's smearing honey all over nekkid bodies.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 16 October 2003 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

God also likes smiting people.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Thursday, 16 October 2003 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Imagine if God got mad at you for putting honey on your naked body and smote you with a plague of locusts and the locusts got stuck in the honey on your naked body.
Ew.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 16 October 2003 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Who's God's favourite wrestler then? Revered Slick? Friar Ferguson? Sisters of Love? The Messiah? Jesus Castillo?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 16 October 2003 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

imagine, tho, if all the stuck locusts starting flaping their wings in unison, and you were able to fly? You'd be the Magical Flying Skank Ass Ho! Able to bring delight to children and horny guys the world over!

and when the locusts started to leave, you could just dip into your honeypot, schmear some more on yourself, and the fun could continue! hooray!

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 16 October 2003 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

just dip into your "honeypot"

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 16 October 2003 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Who's God's favourite wrestler then?

Why, Dusty Rhodes, of course, cuz even the Good Lord loves Him some sweeeeet Sapphire!

http://www.accelerator3359.com/Wrestling/pictures/Dustyspots.jpg
"All happenin' tonight, heeeere onna Muthaship!"

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 16 October 2003 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Beyonce Knowles has hit out at one of pop's latest fads - the lesbian kiss.The devout Christian says she has permission from God to wear sexy clothes and strip on stage but not to have a girl-on-girl snog.

(arched brow) God apparently has a front seat and binoculars when she's rolling round on a velvet couch, wrapped in chains---as long as she's solo? Screw whatever else might be happenin' elsewhere in the universe that very minute.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 16 October 2003 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, I'm sure all the lesbians and bisexual women out there are happy to hear about this "fad."

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 16 October 2003 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Leapin Lenny Poffo guest stars

-- Chris V. (formerlypoopsmcge...) (webmail), October 16th, 2003. (Chris V)

That guy almost, almost, got me into watching wrestling.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 16 October 2003 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

five years pass...

lol

― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 15:10 (sixteen years ago)

omg

― goole, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 15:27 (sixteen years ago)

looooooooooooool

I love how it bounces in and out of tune!

― I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 15:29 (sixteen years ago)

there is a dude in stern's crew halfway defending her, tho: no time to prep, outdoor singing, unforgiving tv mixing, etc. i mean, who cares, really

― goole, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 15:31 (sixteen years ago)

quite frankly, it doesn't matter what she's doing if she's lip-syncing but this is hilarious anyway

― I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 15:32 (sixteen years ago)

that's what one of those ppl says but i don't know if that's true. is autotuning powerful enough these days to work in real time? she's really belting the shit out of that song just to lip-sync.

― goole, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 15:48 (sixteen years ago)

The sound is turned up so much that no one would be able to hear it. The output from her mic goes into one channel on the board and vanishes while another one with a completely different vocal track goes out to the crowd; she's belting so that it looks like she's actually singing but her actual notes don't matter, so she's screwing around and trying to find some weird alternate harmonies, not all of which actually are there.

― I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 16:02 (sixteen years ago)

is autotuning powerful enough these days to work in real time?

yes.

― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 16:05 (sixteen years ago)

that too

― I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 16:08 (sixteen years ago)

lol that is great. still seems like a weird thing to do even if it's all just lipsynching

― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 16:15 (sixteen years ago)

this is amzing - someone needs to lay it over the original instrumental

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 16:30 (sixteen years ago)

alternately: http://music.metafilter.com/2943/Runnin-With-The-Songsmith

― I'm the head soul brother in the US. Where to now? (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 16:36 (sixteen years ago)

the same thing occurred to me for a second re: her belting it out but she's obviously belting it out because she is performing but why bother to plug her mic in at all if her vocal goes nowhere?

― conrad, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 16:37 (sixteen years ago)

because it's a funny soundboard guy

― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 16:38 (sixteen years ago)

^^^

― I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 17:37 (sixteen years ago)

OK so she thought her mic was dead and she was safe to do whatever but funny soundboard guy plugged it in without her knowledge

― conrad, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 17:39 (sixteen years ago)

No, you're missing the point. The mic is plugged in regardless and she probably knew it; she's singing whatever because it doesn't matter what notes she's hitting and it's more important that she gets the physical contortions to sync up with the broadcast vocal. She probably even knew it was being recorded. It's just funny to listen to.

― I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 17:45 (sixteen years ago)

the point I'm missing is that it's funny to listen to? the point I'm trying not to miss is that it's now embarrassing and could easily have been avoided. she probably even knew it was being recorded but trusted any number of people incl. a funny soundboard guy not to open her up to this embarrassment

― conrad, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 18:18 (sixteen years ago)

This is only "embarrassing" if people thinks this means she can't actually sing in tune, which is demonstrably false (see any number of other performances she's done, particularly the era when Destiny's Child was doing a lot of awards show introductions and the three of them would sing "Say My Name" a capella).

It's completely meaningless but it's also hilarious.

― I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 18:21 (sixteen years ago)

I don't think it's only embarrassing if people think that she can't sing and I don't think anyone will actually think that she can't sing. they might say it and keep saying it and laugh and say it but I don't think anyone will sit down and think it or make anyone else sit down and think it. it still makes her look a bit silly today and is embarrassing

― conrad, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 18:26 (sixteen years ago)

anyway, from the same session: http://www.shabooty.com/2009/04/21/beyonce-on-today-show-live-bad-singing.php

I saw this performance and this is not what it sounded like (except for the extended sessions where she's not singing). lolololololol

― I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 18:38 (sixteen years ago)

the bridge is possibly my favorite thing of all time for the next three days

― I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 18:41 (sixteen years ago)

v embarrassing. more bits appearing and w/ a video so you can also see her face as she sounds bad and silly

― conrad, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 18:43 (sixteen years ago)

every day must be a rainy one on Planet Po-Face

― I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 18:45 (sixteen years ago)

I have laughed

― conrad, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 18:47 (sixteen years ago)

I thought it sounded quite good, except for maybe the high notes.

― Orin Boyd (jel --), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 18:48 (sixteen years ago)

this is fake she dont sing like that i want to go see her lived she did not song like that why is y’all playing her out thats wrong

― fuck you chelios (jeff), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 18:49 (sixteen years ago)

many people will def think she cant sing

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 19:05 (sixteen years ago)

wish i had voted 4 radio head :/

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 19:05 (sixteen years ago)

was hoping this thread would be about this

I'm with Dan, for some reason it seems clear that she knows it's another lipsync gig of a song she's sung ten million times already, so she's decided to have fun with it. and she actually sounds great hitting those wrong notes, a record full of these live feeds would be marissa-tastic

one thing to keep in mind with 'lip-syncing' is that these performances aren't always 100% canned -- they often have the original studio vocal on a fader next to the live mic, start with the live vocal until the audience hears enough differences to accept it as a live performance, and then they artfully crossfade the live & studio tracks for the high notes. or as one mixer said to me about a country tour he was on, 'audiences expect that high note, but there's no way that note is going to happen on cue after somersaulting across the stage for 30-90 minutes in front of fireworks -- but it's ok, we got her high notes covered'

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 19:18 (sixteen years ago)

nsfw

Beyond has limtits http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/foto/f97c53e4_beyonce.gif

― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 19:26 (sixteen years ago)

beyonce even, jesus.

― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 19:26 (sixteen years ago)

A++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

― I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 19:28 (sixteen years ago)

embarrassing

― conrad, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 19:29 (sixteen years ago)

― domma sonner (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 20:05 (sixteen years ago)

― I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 20:06 (sixteen years ago)

OOTM

― domma sonner (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 20:07 (sixteen years ago)

BOOUNCE

― defensive of decent LOLs (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 20:15 (sixteen years ago)

O_O

― ice cr?m, Thursday, 23 April 2009 00:45 (sixteen years ago)

that was awesome

― Kringelbert Fishtybuns of Steel (ENBB), Thursday, 23 April 2009 00:56 (sixteen years ago)

shattering all my illusions about live performances.

― James Morrison, Thursday, 23 April 2009 01:23 (sixteen years ago)

that was awesome

― Kringelbert Fishtybuns of Steel (ENBB), Wednesday, April 22, 2009 8:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

― sleep, Thursday, 23 April 2009 04:33 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.tmz.com/2009/04/22/beyonces-dad-was-right-hoax-hoax-hoax/

― just sayin, Thursday, 23 April 2009 07:48 (sixteen years ago)

"Apparently, the dude never went to an Ashlee Simpson concert..."

TMZING

― buttslam is a pretty good move (circa1916), Thursday, 23 April 2009 08:06 (sixteen years ago)

12. ummmm hello this is a true singer were not talking about britney spears lets see that whore try 2 sing a note she is a mother and her fat nasty ass needs to be locked up somewhere ha he ha ho

― naturally unfunny, though mechanically sound (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 23 April 2009 12:21 (sixteen years ago)

nsfw

Beyond has limtits http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/foto/f97c53e4_beyonce.gif

OK, her face at the end approaches tyra.gif levels of absolute awesomeness.

― naturally unfunny, though mechanically sound (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 23 April 2009 12:22 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.tmz.com/2009/04/22/beyonces-dad-was-right-hoax-hoax-hoax/

aw, I liked my theory better

― I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Thursday, 23 April 2009 14:03 (sixteen years ago)

v disappointed

― ice cr?m, Thursday, 23 April 2009 14:32 (sixteen years ago)

she sounds a lot like beyonce

― genei-jin & tonic (cozwn), Thursday, 23 April 2009 14:36 (sixteen years ago)

frankly dans explanation sounds a lot more plausible than the idea that some 'net prankster' put it all together

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Thursday, 23 April 2009 14:41 (sixteen years ago)

who ever heard of a prank on the net. who ever heard of "the net". think abt it.

― ice cr?m, Thursday, 23 April 2009 14:56 (sixteen years ago)

http://91.196.126.51/posters/3d5d19558fda5e82f7d7ed40024ba28917ad1233The%20Net.jpg

― I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Thursday, 23 April 2009 15:12 (sixteen years ago)

Every day in Dan's life, that shot.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 April 2009 15:13 (sixteen years ago)

computrs r chasing u

― ice cr?m, Thursday, 23 April 2009 15:16 (sixteen years ago)

frankly dans explanation sounds a lot more plausible than the idea that some 'net prankster' put it all together

I dunno, pitch shifting a singer's big notes is a pretty easy, cheap laugh.

― da croupier, Thursday, 23 April 2009 15:30 (sixteen years ago)

I think this drama was valid karmic punishment for continuing to perform "If I Was A Boy," though.

― da croupier, Thursday, 23 April 2009 15:32 (sixteen years ago)

haha OTM

― I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Thursday, 23 April 2009 15:35 (sixteen years ago)

well to be fair, the Today Show appearance the audio's from was 5 months ago, back when she was still stuffing the song down our threads...really I'm mad at this whole ordeal for reminding me "If I Were A Boy" ever existed.

― Excuse Me While I Pimp My Al Shipley (some dude), Thursday, 23 April 2009 15:41 (sixteen years ago)

psh, iiwab is a great song, h8rs

― domma sonner (k3vin k.), Thursday, 23 April 2009 15:49 (sixteen years ago)

the Today Show appearance the audio's from was 5 months ago

lol I just assumed this was still her ballad of choice, though that makes it all the more annoying that no one smelled a rat.

― da croupier, Thursday, 23 April 2009 16:12 (sixteen years ago)

psh, iiwab is a great song, h8rs

Yeah, when Ciara performs it.

― Nicodle Otago (Nicole), Thursday, 23 April 2009 17:37 (sixteen years ago)

I still liked it more than the real version!

― Orin Boyd (jel --), Thursday, 23 April 2009 17:55 (sixteen years ago)

psh, iiwab is a great song, h8rs

― domma sonner (k3vin k.), Thursday, April 23, 2009

negative. the melody is a freaking Five For Fighting lift ("Superman") and the track is Joan Osborne/Hooters ("One Of Us"). Lazy.

― butt-rock miyagi (rogermexico.), Thursday, 23 April 2009 17:59 (sixteen years ago)

i can't for the life of me hear any similarity to "Superman" in it. all those songs do suck pretty hard, though.

― some dude, Thursday, 23 April 2009 18:04 (sixteen years ago)

In fact, TMZ found the person behind the prank who was surprised it went as far as it did, saying, "It's a little bit crazy. No one in their right mind would sound like that, and no one would cheer for someone singing like that."

highly suspect

― fuck you chelios (jeff), Thursday, 23 April 2009 18:06 (sixteen years ago)

Howard came back and said that they were talking about that piece of equipment that makes you sound on key. Howard said that Richard pulled Gary into a studio and told him to sing and it kind of worked. Howard played the audio of Gary singing a song and it made him sound like he was in tune. Howard said it was actually working. Robin couldn't believe it was Gary. He was singing the Steve Miller Band's ''Fly Like an Eagle.'' Howard joked that Gary just got signed to a label based on that song.

― fuck you chelios (jeff), Thursday, 23 April 2009 18:47 (sixteen years ago)

blaytant

― genei-jin & tonic (cozwn), Thursday, 23 April 2009 18:51 (sixteen years ago)

I listened again to the howard stern mp3, which is fairly bit-reduced, which would mask the artifacts that extreme pitch-shifting would introduce into her voice. but listening again, the bad notes are so precise, I'm sort of leaning towards the idea that it was an engineer having fun changing to different scales in a pitch-shifter.

Does anyone have an mp3 of the original track without Howard Stern talking all over it?

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 23 April 2009 19:34 (sixteen years ago)

http://idolator.com/5220271/why-the-beyonce-pitch-shifter-did-it

― domma sonner (k3vin k.), Thursday, 23 April 2009 22:30 (sixteen years ago)

dude sounds like he's on a job interview.

― original bgm, Friday, 24 April 2009 19:11 (sixteen years ago)

Never trust anybody who'd wax their eyebrows that way.

― Nicodle Otago (Nicole), Friday, 24 April 2009 19:13 (sixteen years ago)

four years pass...

A fresh take on Dangerously in Love from the Maoist review site I discovered via another thread:

http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/bookstore/music/pop/beyonce.html

"There's no doubt that the photos are arousing for heterosexual men and probably many lesbians--which is not to say that men and lesbians will be the main customers."

― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 09:34 (twelve years ago)

eight months pass...

http://www.brucienyc.com/

― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 00:18 (eleven years ago)

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