I Idolize Just You! December 5
One of the great things about the internet is that it gives crazy people a way to express their crazy opinions. What is even better is that it gives crazy people a way to over react to other people’s opinions. This is particularly awesome in regards to music. A few years ago my friend Jon had a blog, and he had a post with an animated gif he made where you could “punch” Ryan Cabrera. The graphic was funny, but not as funny as the Cabrera fans who came out to threaten Jon with physical harm. I could read that thread for hours.
A few months ago there was a review in the Washington Post, that I can’t seem to find, of the new Jonas Brother’s cd, that got a similar reaction.
Recently, Rob over at The Rockist Society ran into Josh and had the audacity to say “Nice guy, bad music.” This set the Grobanites off, and the comment section is filled with hate towards Rob. My favorite comments are always the ones where the author was clearly too enraged to think clearly, or use proper spelling or grammar. Take this one for example:
“How can you say that about Josh? His voice is beyond angelic and even when Josh would be tierd, after a concert, he came out, even when it was SNOWING, he came out and signed for everyone. I don’t know how anyone can crtisize anything about Josh Groban! His voice heals broken hearts and it’s scientificlly proven I might add! You may be entitled to your own opnion, mister, but you don’t have to tell the world negative things about Josh. Seems to me, you don’t think Josh is a “nice” guy if you can crtisize him where the whole of cyberspace can see what trash you write about the angel on earth.”
I picture the author with tears streaming down her face, typing as fast as she can, and it cracks me up because I am a bad person.
I understood where the comments came from on the Washington Post, a lot of people read that paper, but I imagine that the Rockist Society’s readership doesn’t overlap with many Grobanites. The only conclusion I can reach is that these people have Google Alerts set for “Josh Groban,” and that is awesome. They need to know whenever anything is written about Josh.
In case any Grobanites stumble over here, I also don’t like Josh’s music. I would rather fill my apartment with The Painter of Light’s catalog than let the treacly mess that is Josh Groban’s music onto my Ipod.
p.s. This post was brought to you by a paucity of content.
Bayes Dec 6
Charles is getting really funny. That Painter of Light is pretty sweet though. Aaron will be happy that Amy Winehouse and Kanye West are leading the grammy nods. Feist and Herbie Hancock, along with Bruce, Paul McCartney and John Fogerty are the only reputable and worthy contenders for any of the Grammeys this year. I’m trying to pinpoint the exact year the Grammeys turned into the Billboard Music Awards…and I’m pretty sure it coincided almost directly with the influx of rap and hip hop. Agree with me if I’m wrong.
Jon Dec 7
until someone hacks our 2002 installation of movable type and ends our long slow death:
head butt ryan cabrera (http://www.criticallyinsane.com/blog/archives/2005/03/head_butt_ryan_cabrera_com.html)
Jon Dec 7
aw man, i just realized all of the interesting comments got removed. what a bummer