Cheeky Girls

I saw them on "Top of the Pops" on BBC America the other day and almost pissed myself laughing.

"Cheesy Girls" is more like it. The "music" is hilariously bad but they are worth a chuckle for the five minutes they'll be almost famous.

 

This type of act always reminds me of what my jazz history professor said in college:

"People, be careful of what you buy, because buying a record is like casting a vote with record companies. The cute or stupid or funny thing you buy for the moment does two things. First in ensures that bad music will continue to be released by record companies and secondly, we are turning idiots into millionaires."

 

Apparently, they were on Pop Stars (the one Hear'say came from), and Model behaviour, a similar show trying to find catwalk models. But it's nice to see that they have that stereotypical East European dyed hair that looks like straw.

P.S. Jazz history professor ???!!. What a wank job.

 

He also taught theory and piano. He also played with Ella Fitzgerald, so he's not too much of a wank.

I took the class as my last course in college. I had an elective left and wanted an easy one.

 

But Jazz is awful. Well, free form skppy-de-boo-bop Jazz is anyway. Did he ever have a polo neck, smoke those black cigarettes that look like liquice all-sorts, and have a goatie beard years before everyone else did ?.

 

Regardless of what your opinion of jazz is, the quote is correct. There is some serious shite being cranked out primarily because people think a song is funny. I don't think "The Ketchup Song" will stand up next to anything Coltrane or Miles Davis ever put out. I don't even like jazz that much, I just took the course for an easy grade.

 

Don't think I'd buy the record, but I could give 'em a little Nosferatu.

 

I wasn't disputing the phrase at all, just Jazz music.

 

Let's have fun with stereotypes!

Jazz is OK, even if I'm not a big fan of any jazz made after, say, 1970 unless it sounds like it could have been made before then. Armstrong, Goodman, Ellington, Fitzgerald, Holiday and even Parker, Gillespie and early Davis are listenable in my book.

Anyway, as for "polo neck, smoke those black cigarettes that look like liquice all-sorts, and have a goatie beard years before everyone else did", I can stereotype fans of anything from classical jazz to metal to punk to hip hop to cheesy synthopop girl acts. I can take your favorite music and make all its fans look like a bunch of stereotypical lemminglike wankers. So list your favorite music if you think you're hard enough to take the thrashing I'll give it and its fans.

 

Oh dear, I've touched a raw nerve. I was only have a joke with the stereotype there. Never watched the Fast Show have you ?.

 

Well, you're no fun.

I was looking forward to a good rant, too, especially if you liked indie rock. I haven't had a good rant here in a while, you know. I guess I'll just shuffle off quietly now. Carry on. Never mind me. Maybe I'll go find a Sun Ra or Radiohead CD to listen to.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/fastshow/characters/louis_balfour.shtml

When you say indie rock, do you mean stuff like Oasis ?. I quite like that stuff, although I like Super urry Animals, Divine Comedy and early Radiohead more.

 

No good trying to make up now that I've settled into a comfortable wounded sullenness. I'm not a trained dancing bear, here to rant just for your amusement! I shan't rant. Shan't shan't shan't. And it's no good you trying to make me.

*stomps foot*

 

I wasn't.

 

OK. But I don't think most people would consider Oasis "indie rock".

 

How "indie" can you be filling up Manchester City's stadium?

 

So, you're saying that U2, Madonna and Kylie Minogue probably aren't "indie" either? Another cherished belief shattered on the cruel rocks of reality...