Vanilla Ice apologizes

It's all apparently part of a campaign (rightmusicwrongs.org, launched by Virgin) to further vilify one hit wonders and manufactured pop, and to promote "real" music. I can't go into the website cause my old browser won't allow me (apparently there is a list of the top 10 worst offenders), but the whole thing reeks of of rockism and condescendence.

haha Rob trying to act there.

still a great song, of course.

In a world awash with silicone and botox, where stars are prefabricated on 'reality' TV, where lip-syncing is normal and real singing is a special event, something has gone dangerously and desperately wrong with music. It's time to take a stand. It's time to right music. To make it real again.

Some music festivals showcase the latest reality pop sensations. Not the V Festival.

To make it real again.

By believing an advertising campaign by a huge corporation?

He needs to apologize for apologizing.

"reality pop" is my favorite genre, whatever it is

ethan's not here so i'll post the obligatory:

Roll through the ghetto pumpin Ice Ice Baby
Think I give a fuck it's better than the shit I heard lately

ethan's ghost otm

why is he apologizing for the music? IIB is a great song!

his ex-stylist need to apologize for his haircuts/outfits etc.

Oh come on guys it's obviously a gag.

"Even though Ice Ice Baby sold over 40 million copies worldwide, I have no excuses"

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We the public can forgive almost anything........ But appearing in that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie....UNACCEPTABLE!

it's cute, but i'm more sad just that these dudes would shit on their own legacy for a buck, even if it's obv. that everyone is in on the joke

The only language these cunts understand is ignoring their shitty marketing campaign so I'm afraid I'm out.

I can't believe an artist like Vanilla Ice would compromise his legacy just for filthy lucre, Whiney. No way.

Hahahaha.

I mean there's being able to have fun and ironic about it it...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Return_of_the_1_Hit_Wonder.jpg

And then there's "doing anything to capitalize on one moment that happened 20 years ago."

this image was supposed to come after

I mean there's being able to have fun and ironic about it it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Return_of_the_1_Hit_Wonder.jpg

thanks for clarifying

It's all pretty sad really. Terrible ill thought out campaign and the festival looks pretty much rubbish too: http://www.vfestival.com.au/

I think by now we all know 'Nilla will do or say anything for attention. He's a sad, deluded man with very little talent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_of_the_1_Hit_Wonder.jpg

Oh come on guys it's obviously a gag.

Gag, and patheeeetic self-promotion. This is why

He needs to apologize for apologizing.

― meta pro lols (libcrypt)

Yeah, I think apoligizing for selling millions of records while sitting with the spoils on full display = full sarcasm nelson

no Vanilla!

This is all because Vanilla Ice saw that Asher Roth video, you know rite?

oh yeah, I can totally see that as a "look what I hath wrought" moment

You know it's funny, you can listen to "Ice Ice Baby" and hear how Vanilla is kind of a stiff rapper with not the best flow in the world, and doesn't always hit the beat.

Like how the "light up the stage/wax a chump like a candle" double time stuff is all over the fucking place. Or "naw... I rolled by" is just this hurried out of breath line that's like in another tempo.

And I wonder if this actually HELPED him gain success with the song because it sounded so weird. and people who didn't know a lot of rap took "shitty" for "unique."

i mean, i dunno, then again i had been listening to rap for two years at that point and LOVED "Ice Ice Baby"

supposedly Ice was pretty well-respected as a battle rapper in Dallas pre-fame

Like "Ice Ice Baby" is a dope song and all, but seriously like third tier dudes that didn't even make to MTV had better flow

yeah, I agree w/ that

this is slowly turning into "lol remember when there was a music industry to have arguments about?" :-/

lawl

Roll through the ghetto pumpin Ice Ice Baby
Think I give a fuck it's better than the shit I heard lately

^^awesome who is that?

wrt to Ice, like i clowned him at the time like everyone else, and yeah he wasn't fucking with Rakim, but I hold that almost all the hate on him was jealousy that they didn't think of flipping that Queen bassline sample first.

you clowned him like everyone else who bought 10 million of his records?

because you can't do both!

He wasn;t William Hung, dogg

What's that you're saying 'bout William Hung? Dude was on Arrested Development, and never got dangled by his ankles out a window by Suge Knight. RESPECT.

you clowned him like everyone else who bought 10 million of his records?

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like everyone else that was a serious hip hop fan

like i listened to PE and NWA and Kool G and shit so i wasn't going to admit to liking Ice Ice Baby even though I actually did like it.

Like how the "light up the stage/wax a chump like a candle" double time stuff is all over the fucking place. Or "naw... I rolled by" is just this hurried out of breath line that's like in another tempo

how was vanilla ice portrayed by the media?

i mean, i was a serious hip hop fan into Rakim, Eazy, Sir Mix, Run DMC, De La, whatever... but I was also 10, which probably had something to do with it.

Vanilla Ice was more a Wrong Time Right Place kinda guy.

The crime against Ice wasn't lip-syncing per Milli Vanilli, but riff stealing, but discriminating hip-hop/R&B fans didn't give a shit. Milli Vanilli fell hard, and that was still fresh on everyone's minds. Vanilla Ice was not only a white rapper, but a white rapper with a weak argument for borrowing a popular bass riff (and he coincidentally had "Vanill" in his name somewhere, which probably didn't help lol.) He's the fall guy for the rediscovery of "Under Pressure" as far as major canonical contributions go.

If MilliVanillaGate hadn't happened, Vanilla Ice would have been lashed with faint disses, not sold nearly as much (because there wouldn't have been all that publicity), and hence be completely forgotten as part of a long forgotten line of late 80s rappers.

"MilliVanilliGate". Hmm, maybe the word "Vanilla" had a lot more to do with it than I previously thought, in addition to accenting the "I'm a white guy" thing.

Mackro so far OffTM that he's switched currencies on us.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Iceland_Krona_Coins.jpg

FYI current vote totals:

• Innocent: 75.62%
• Guilty: 24.38%

Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but I remember people hating him more after IIB because he was cheesy, not because he stole the riff. The attitude (at least at my elementary school) was, "Why didn't he just admit he sampled the bassline? That's dumb" instead of "I hate him, he stole Queen's music." He had a huge hit then fell off, but it was more a Chumbawumba situation than a Milli Vanilli scandal, though Vanilla Ice and Milli Vanilli both made me think "WTF ok let's move on from these guys."

"Why didn't he just admit he sampled the bassline? That's dumb" instead of "I hate him, he stole Queen's music."

Well, there definitely was both happening, but I was stating the former, primarily.

Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but I remember people hating him more after IIB because he was cheesy, not because he stole the riff.

Exactly. At the time he was being made fun of by the skit comedy shows for being so cheesy. I can't remember if it was SNL or In Living Color, but one of them had a crack about "yeah you're from the street... Sesame Street". I don't think clowning him about the stolen riff became the focal point until way later when he incriminated himself on VH1 with that stupid "there's goes.. ding-ding-ding, mine goes... ding-ding-ding-TING" bit he did.

Bacon, ur probably right

Bacon, ur probably right

mesmerizing

speaking of bacon...

xpost oh shit someone linked to it right above me hours ago

remember when he was on that jon stewart/denis leary (?)/chris kattan/janeane garafolo MTV special and busted up the set? that was awesome.

does van winkle still have his real estate money?

Vanilla Ice's worst crime towards music is not his music nor the fact that he ripped off Queen and David Bowie.
His biggest crime towards music is that he got millions of 12 year-olds into rap.

wakka wakka wakka

one of them had a crack about "yeah you're from the street... Sesame Street"

I have this in my head as an Ice-T quote, izzat wrong?

He might need to do some more apologizing.

http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/vanilla-ice-arrested-burglary-the-vanilla-ice-project-florida-1201436281/

finally he is real

police on the scene, you know what I mean

the local NBC reporter keeps repeating, "Police say he's being extremely cooperative."

Cooperative to the extreme

check out the crook

swipe a bike like a vandal

Anything less than the best is a felony, apparently.

apparently no burglary lols to be found in the Ninja Turtles lyrics