It’s bad enough that Emopop exists, frankly, but I’ve tolerated worse bile-inducing dreck without setting proverbial quill to parchment. It’s when past heights of classic rock are unearthed, dressed in Boondock Saints hoodies, made to shamble about on TRL, and otherwise thoroughly perverted that I see fit to interject.
The offending tidbit of offal: My Chemical Romance & The Used covering “Under Pressure.”
Your low point comes at about 2:35. Their publicists still haven’t apologized.
As MySpace has supplanted LiveJournal, so have acts like these wrested the title of LiveJournal Music from Nu-Metal a decade down the line.
To you and your ilk, I issue a warning: just because your floppy-haired bassist can play John Deacon’s instantly identifiable bassline doesn’t mean your mall-scum band can cover fucking Queen.
Now fuck off until your fans outgrow you and history forgets you.
z
Auntie Rachel
9 responses so far ↓
Rachel // March 6, 2007 at 1:18 am
Some scary thoughts:
1. Some of the YouTube comments compare this favorably to the original.
2. How many people in that audience do you think were never alive at the same time as Freddie Mercury? How many had never heard of either of the Talented Mssrs. Mercury and Bowie? How many heard this song for the first time at that concert?
3. Only Freddie gets to Ki-day-oh. The Ki-day-oh is a sacred art. Even Annie Fucking Lennox couldn’t do it right. Freddie’s Ki-day-ohs were fraught with concern at the plight of our world, as if he were really saying “I would heal this crumbling world with my own loving hands if I could; ’tis profoundly torturous I can’t.” They’re saying it as if they mean “Why doesn’t my mom understand my hairstyle and the kids at school are all assholes.”
Tiffany // March 17, 2007 at 7:24 pm
It t’was gone when i got there :-/
z // March 18, 2007 at 1:17 am
The one linked from the picture of My Chemical Romance still works, for now! I was tricksy and found two.
Update of HORROR: this was committed to studio tape, and is getting airplay, at least on XM Radio. I’d figured since (if WikiPedia is to be believed) The Used and MCR had some manner of falling out, there’d be enough interpersonal teenage bullshit to prevent its being released. My optimism, it seems, has betrayed me again.
Tiffany // March 19, 2007 at 7:29 pm
Jeebus. I actually liked MCR before that… The Used i could do without. bah!
Let’s resurrect Freddy Mercury so that he can kick their collective asses and them how it’s done.
z // March 22, 2007 at 6:13 am
My concern is that a resurrected Freddie Mercury would have to spend 5 or so years dabbling in now horribly passé electronica-themed experimentation.
Though, who knows: “Body Language” is a hot track, and was the first video banned by MTV to boot. Also: a reclusive John Deacon may return to play with Zombie Mercury.
redatm // April 24, 2007 at 6:50 am
Wow, I mean…
What a bunch of homos. Hm.
z // April 26, 2007 at 5:41 am
And Muse is opening for them right in my backyard. Fucking MUSE!
Yes, friends, injustice prevails tonight.
NB: Azizsucks only accepts post-ironic usage of the word “homo.”
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Staedtler // April 27, 2008 at 7:31 pm
I watched that video and just about barfed in my mouth. I couldn’t even make it through the whole video. They were like two screaming apes throwing their talentless shit around.
Is this what tweens nowadays listen to? I’m ashamed to be identified with them.
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