George Michael says pop is dead

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BERLIN - George Michael says he's closing a chapter in his two-decade pop music career with his new autobiographical film, "George Michael: A Different Story."
The reason?
"I think my own genre is dead," Michael said Wednesday as he presented the movie at the Berlin International Film Festival. "I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with."
Michael, 41, said he wants to "try to move my career into a different form — I don't know what that's going to be yet."

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ....

― Mr Deeds (Mr Deeds), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

Exploring Tea Rooms with George Michael
A Channel 4 documentary sure to expand your perceptions.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

Isn't this in retaliation for Pop saying GeorgeMichael is dead?

― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

He just made a fantastic pop album that no one heard...

I'd be, uh, morbidly curious to see how he tackles his bathroom arrest, though.

― john'n'chicago, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0006O0B8Q.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

He said exactly the same thing about five years ago.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

http://www.iggy-pop.com/intw/athens2.jpg

"No, I'm fine, really. It's just a fleshwound!"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

(lol)

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

How about a BBC travel series? Toilet Follies of the World: A Personal Journey

― thee music mole, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

Well, that was sorta my joke there, Mr. Mole. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

George should work with Lil' Jon. Or possibly Sizzla.

― Speedhump Bungle (noodle vague), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

Two or three weeks ago he was burning records.

http://www.teletronic.co.uk/arrested.jpg

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

I first read this as another RIP thread, and was surprisingly unsure how to feel.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

http://nbcdslb.console.net/images_show/TheGeorgeMichaelSportsMachine.jpg

― stockholm cindy's secret childhood (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

Well, that was sorta my joke there, Mr. Mole. ;-)
-- Ned Raggett

I don't know what goes on in American tea rooms, Mr Raggett, but I have already formed the suspicion that, in your country, dangling your teabag in the pot is not a precursor to cake and a little chat.

― thee music mole, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

"Dangling your teabag"

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

"this is a stupid game anyway"

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Actually, depending on which pot you're in you most certainly could get some cake (no chatting though, that's forbidden).

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

I'm surprised he didn't just record a jazz standards album.

As for Patience, there just weren't enough hooks to hang onto and his lyrics weren't nearly as intricate as, say, "Cowboys & Angels" or "Praying for Time." I sympathize with his commercial decline to an extent, but only an extent.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

LOOK JUST SHUT IT YOU FU******G IDIOT,IF U DONT LIKE GEORGES MUSIC THEN WHY DONT YOU TRY *AND* DO SOMTEHING INSTEAD OF SITTING AROUND ON THE INTRENET ALL DAY,BLOODY ARSEHOLE

― Sarah Jane Whiting, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

Fudurking?

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

Look, go *AND* settle down, Sarah Jane. No one has said that they don't like his music!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

Michaels should team up with Robert Downey, Jr.

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

Or team up on him.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

If George Michael asked you to wank him off in a private bathroom would you do it?

― Calzer W, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

Hell, I'd do it in a public bathroom just for "Everything She Wants" alone.

― Speedhump Bungle (noodle vague), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

As for Patience, there just weren't enough hooks to hang onto and his lyrics weren't nearly as intricate as, say, "Cowboys & Angels" or "Praying for Time."

I completely disagree. While Listen without Prejudice is an undeniable Classic with a Capital C, Patience "Cars and Trains" is a great lyric (and musically as good as any song he's written). "John and Elvis are Dead" seemed really bland to me at first, but with time that lyric has grown on me. The title song is almost a reprise of "Praying for Time". I'm biased, cuz I feel like I'm the only person here who gives a shit about the album, but at the very least it's not something to dismiss easily.

― john'n'chicago, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

George should work with Lil' Jon.

This is so OTM that I want to put my George Michael records and my Lil' Jon records on top of each other and try to make them hump.

― Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

It is odd that George Michael is only 41.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

LOOK JUST SHUT IT YOU FU******G IDIOT,IF U DONT LIKE GEORGES MUSIC THEN WHY DONT YOU TRY *AND* DO SOMTEHING INSTEAD OF SITTING AROUND ON THE INTRENET ALL DAY,BLOODY ARSEHOLE

Wow. where did this come from? Is this real?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

George sounds like he's really bored.

― buck van smack (Buck Van Smack), Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

You think George is Sarah Jane Whiting?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 17 February 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

I thought he didn't know his father?

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 17 February 2005 01:57 (twenty years ago)

George Michael says john lennon is dead
i have loved every GM song until "shoot the dog" ,"freek " was gr8 and "amazing "was brilliant but htey are the only 2 good songs on a bad lp,flawless was bad disco and there isn't nay other good songs.

― La Camilla Henemark, Thursday, 17 February 2005 03:08 (twenty years ago)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000027F8/ref=pd_bxgy_img_2/103-4681353-5538223?v=glance&s=music
from listen without prejudice - to no-one is listening...
if he does a good song people will buy it .

― La Camilla Henemark, Thursday, 17 February 2005 03:14 (twenty years ago)

there isn't nay other good songs.

I guess you didn't much listen to the album. For one thing, "Cars and Trains" was the best song on the album, which is saying a lot on an album with "Amazing". That makes three gr8 songs out of twelve. Lessee... "Precious Box" has a great hook and one of his better vocals. I could go on, but it'll be pointless. (The only possible complaint I can fathom is too many slow and moderate tempos and song length -- but then you'd actually had to have listened to the album to know that.)

I think the reflex reaction to someone like George Michael is to remember his pastel and feathered-hair days or his beverly hills blow job and immediately write him off. I will always give him a chance though since Listen with Prejudice is nigh on perfect. In this case, I'm glad I did, since, while this one isn't perfect, it's still better than 98% of what I heard last year (ie. it was in my top 5)

― john'n'chicago, Thursday, 17 February 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)

He said exactly the same thing about five years ago.

He was right.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 17 February 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

Or rather, he was right then, too.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 17 February 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

George Michael is dead.

― Pop (mike h.), Thursday, 17 February 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

there isn't nay other good songs.
I guess you didn't much listen to the album. For one thing, "Cars and Trains" was the best song on the album, which is saying a lot on an album with "Amazing". That makes three gr8 songs out of twelve. Lessee... "Precious Box" has a great hook and one of his better vocals. I could go on, but it'll be pointless. (The only possible complaint I can fathom is too many slow and moderate tempos and song length -- but then you'd actually had to have listened to the album to know that.)

I think the reflex reaction to someone like George Michael is to remember his pastel and feathered-hair days or his beverly hills blow job and immediately write him off. I will always give him a chance though since Listen with Prejudice is nigh on perfect. In this case, I'm glad I did, since, while this one isn't perfect, it's still better than 98% of what I heard last year (ie. it was in my top 5)

-- john'n'chicago (econjoh...), February 17th, 2005.
i have listened to the album a lot - "precious box" has a hook - great intro riff,decent chorus but nothing lese...i keep listening to the album because i can't beleive it is this bad ...but it is- i'm a big gm fan
faith 9/10
listen without prejudice 8.5/10
older 8/10
precious 3/10

― La Camilla Henemark, Thursday, 17 February 2005 05:35 (twenty years ago)

I've always felt George Michael thinks he's opinion is above everyone else's, like he had some unique perspective on things. He's just an idiot, of course. This is a vibrant time for pop. He's just not part of it.

― daavid (daavid), Thursday, 17 February 2005 06:25 (twenty years ago)

WHOR YOU SAYIN GORG MICHAEL GREEK POOFTAH, POP AINT DEAD ITS LOVERLY. AND YOU AINT 41 NEITHER.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 17 February 2005 06:39 (twenty years ago)

Patience would have been much better at half the length. As I have said previously, the album he should have made last year was Liars by Todd Rundgren.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 17 February 2005 08:10 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7627636.stm

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 20 September 2008 22:23 (seventeen years ago)

He's a terrible man for the being arrested in public toilets, sure he is.

― Tell me where the fuck you find a anorexic blapper (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 20 September 2008 22:29 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.ironbologna.com/serendipity/uploads/Color_Me_Badd1.jpg

― tony orlando and dawng (PappaWheelie V), Sunday, 21 September 2008 01:57 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

rip http://www.usatoday.com/sports/2009-12-24-george-michael-obit_N.htm

― ice cr?m, Thursday, 24 December 2009 19:39 (fifteen years ago)

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