Thursday, March 31, 2011

Embarassment - O - Meter

What song is more embarassing to be caught listening to:  metal version of Miley Cyrus or metal version of Phantom of the Opera?





Kudos to you if you thought, for a second, that Nightwish would cover the classic Iron Maiden song.  Andrew Lloyd Weber?  Oh my fucking God.

Answer:  Nightwish is definitely higher on the Embarrass - O - Meter.

4 comments:

  1. Nightwish is good. Musicals are good. Nightwish singing show tunes is surprisingly bad. I would blame the song for being a keyboard relic of the 80s that should be played by synthesizers while goofballs in pajamas wander around stage singing. Theres just no way to make it rock.

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  2. I think most of the blame is on the dude singing. He is really terrible. He also plays bass, and the bass in the breakdown does nothing for me.

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  3. Wow, I love it; have read two of your posts, seems like you go directly to your point. I had to go look up the Miley thing; I don't get it. Someone fused her vocals with a metal instrumental? I'm impressed considering I have no idea how that is done.

    Seeing as the Miley Metal was uploaded to Youtube in 2009, I'm glad you brought it to our attention; otherwise, I might never have seen it.

    I actually accidentally found your blog while image searching for Doogie dressed up as his StarShip Troopers character. SST happens to be one of my favorite movies, thinking maybe I rate high on your embarrassment meter but learned long ago that... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-Q3gd6S1as

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  4. Allison,

    This Miley video was produced by fusing the isolated vocal tracks from "Party in the USA" with completely original music designed to fit the vocals. The creator, Andy, has a youtube channel dedicated to doing this in various forms.

    Fellow Starship Trooper fans are hard to find!

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