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What If You're the One with Really Terrible Taste?
You know, what if the Black Eyed Peas were a really good band? They are, after all, immensely popular! What if it's just you? What if you're just a stuck-up and joyless snob?
In any event, while you mull that, the recently canceled Black Eyed Peas concert in Central Park is back on, for September 30th, although the Times requests that you remember that delightful night in 1983, when "hundreds of concert goers were mauled" after Diana Ross' show. That was back in an odd little moment when Diana Ross was sort of… Lady Gaga meets a black Kreayshawn? Important archival video documentation above!
This requires me to fess up to my age – but I was at that show in 1983 and it was no fucking joke. The biggest darkest cloud blew in and that was terrifying, but then, getting out of the park – holy shit. Isn't that when the term "wilding" was coined ?
@Fishnetsand Ciggs@facebook Actually I bet it was really, really terrible!!!
@Fishnetsand Ciggs@facebook : I think "wilding" actually emerged from the Central Park jogger case. Same park, same era though.
What's a Kreayshawn?
@boyofdestiny: About $13 a day.
@boyofdestiny same as in town
@boyofdestiny – a clever way to spell "Creation."
I've had that nightmare. The nightmare where I'm delusional and Black Eyed Peas is actually genius. As are George W., Ed Koch, Katie Couric, and Kathy Griffin(th). Damn you for reminding me.
If there's anything to learn from Hot Tub Time Machine, it's that in twenty years we'll all wish we could go back in time and turn all the awful shit we're going through now to our own advantage.
There's an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer wherein the titular character (heh) awakes one day restrained in a mental institution. The doctors explain she has been committed due to her psychotic delusions of being some kind of supernatural avenger that…uh..slays vampires. At first Buffy thinks this is some kind of Demon Mind Control and tries to escape, kill the doctors, etc. She keeps having flashes of her "Slayer world" where all her friends are imperiled and fighting off some kind of big bad. She flashes back and forth between institution and fight to the death. Anyways, after a while she comes to realize this "new" reality may be preferable to her Slayer world: Her family is together, happy, and well adjusted. She is not constantly fighting the forces of evil, mediocre special effects, and sad eyed vampires with souls who totally cheat on her and kill her favorite math teacher (gypsy spells made him do it, but whatever). Ultimately, she chooses to save her friends and reject the seductive world of normalcy. But what if the whole series is jut the crazy delusion of a psychotic? BUM-BUM-BUMMMM.
Anywhoosers, all this is to say: If the real world involves BEP being a really good band, I'll stick to my delusion, thanks.
However, the audience at the Black Eyed Peas concert, in addition to apparently enjoying far shittier music, will be too busy snapping camera phone pictures of themselves doing so to maul anyone.
So, I guess the message is "It's a jungle out there?" OK, got it, thanks!
Why did Diana Ross maul people?
Under no circumstances should “Kreayshawn” and Ms. Ross be discussed in a comparative manner. Although I will admit this video is one glitter canon ball away from a Key-$-ha concert. So I’ve heard.
It's not that there are people who think that they have a good taste, and then some other people who think that their different taste is better. Those other people simply deny that there is such thing as "taste" in the first place. They just follow the mainstream like sheep and seriously, earnestly, and openly think that as long as you are in a big crowd, you are good. And then they trample each other.