Fads You Don't Like

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I eleventh my hatred for Ugg boots. I've never met a guy that thought a girl looked good in those. In fact I've never met another guy who didn't think Ugg boots are anyhting less than hideous. Whoever posted a while back that women dress for women was so correct.

As for my hated fads:

Every single pro sports team thinking that they need to have some sort of Sea of _____ or White Out or Black out.

Give it up already. The Jets did it, the Flames do it and the KC Chiefs invented it. Everyone else (cept maybe the Orange army etc) stop trying to coordinate color similarities for your sports team. It's been done to death.

And that goes for having a ONE time tradition of throwing something on the field/ice. It happened like once and it was cool now give it up. Same with having a specified party street/area after the game.

Luckily this one has died out but the crazy belt buckle fad of a year or two ago when everyone had to have a LED belt that said their name or some lame ass crap, or have a Cadillac belt buckle so uncool.

[ShaolinFlame]

Originally Posted by Cowboy89

Hey I'm one too. I was being sarcastically politically correct there.

I used to love the hip-hop back in high school. After higher levels of education, and a move up in Maslow's hierarchy of needs triangle, I started seeing it for what it is: A bunch of duffusses prancing around with a faux image of over the top masculinity to appeal to a vulnerable middle class white male demographic in desperate need of reinforcing and portraying a masculine identity. It's such blatant marketing that they even make songs and music videos depicting how much wealth they've amassed duping their audiences. Once I got over the identity crisis that in normally developed people ends with adolensence, I stopped listening.

I guess I should throw my degree out the window because I must be ######ed. Maybe I needed more Psych so I could have properly developed according to Maslow's definitions of a person. Then again I find farts hilarious so maybe I'm really stuck on Freud's anal stage?

In all seriousness, while it is true that most rap you hear if you don't listen to rap (radio, tv, etc) is exactly as you have characterized it (negatively), there is a infinite amount of artists making real tracks about topics just as mature as you will hear in any genre. Making these stupid stereotypes about any music is just slippery slope logic.

I remember when rap was beginning, rock was incredibly glamorized - arguably more so than most rap is today. Stadium tours, name up lights, fancy bus, hordes of floozies, lavish mansions, sportscars, etc.

Plenty of country stars portray an over the top masculine image, I guess that means "mature" people can't like that either then?

If you see the music beyond the forefront that is being "aggressively marketed in your face", you can find rap artists that tackle pretty much any issue you feel is worthy of your musical maturity; from religious issues, politics, racism, sexism, anthropology, all the way to love, partying, sports, cars, whatever.

Every topic that has been covered in rock has been covered in rap, RnB, country, and vice versa. Just because you choose to expose (your definition of) less mature topics in a certain genre doesn't stop those topics from existing across the genre spectrum, and more importantly it doesn't qualify any music as more legitimate or mature than any other.

Out

PS- Watch my videos on top of page 4 for HIPSTER OLYMPICS and MY NEW HAIRCUT!

[Muta]

1) The word 'beauty'.

2) Girls using the word 'buddy' (not necessarily bad, just out-of-place).

3) Oversized ho-shades on self-important glamour chicks.

4) The word 'hot'.

5) Hollister (flippin' HATE that company). I went into a Hollister store in Toronto in November, and walked out not knowing what the **** just happened. TV's dedicated to live shots of the beaches in California and Florida? Why???? Stupid as ****, that's what that is. Life isn't the freakin' O.C. 24 hours a day; I don't need crappy, unoriginal clothes to remind me what I might be missing by not routinely gracing the sands of Long Beach or West Palm everyday.

6) Abercrombie and Finch (sp?) - DO NOT WANT. I already know my skin color is white; I don't need a shirt justifying that everywhere I go.

7) Skate / snowboard lingo - when did it become cool to talk like you have an IQ of 50? Speak correctly, Spanky. You might actually understand yourself one day.

8) Crotch rockets - Nothing screams 'D-Bag' like driving your crotch rocket up and down 17th on a Friday night... okay, maybe if you're driving your crotch rocket up and down 17th in an up-collar, which might be the case.

9) Indy music - apparently it's cool to listen to bands that no one has heard of before. It makes you unique. Even when everyone else does it.

10) The Vancouver Canucks.

11) G-Unit / Shawn John clothing - Ride on, gangsta g-unit thug HARCORE 4EVA gangsta thug 4LIFE DAWG.... ride on.

12) Big neck chains.

[Cowboy89]

Originally Posted by fotze

Saw Gene Simmons interesting take on rap and rock stars yesterday on the Henry Rollins show. Saying how at least rappers are honest with their love of money. They are what rock stars used to be driving fast cars surrounding themselves with hot chicks with huge knockers.

The new rock stars pretending to be not about the money still sell t-shirts at their concerts and the only difference between selling t-shirts and having a marketing deal with Visa is that one makes more money than the other but they are still done to make money. He says to be weary of any musical artist who is 'not doing it for money' because they are 'fataing liars'. Of course there are many holes in his arguments, but they were interesting REGARDLESS.

Heck even Radiohead who profess to be very anti-establishment, anti-corporate did all the latest stuff to allow them to increase their take on their latest album.

I fully agree with Simmons. Today's Rap fan would have been 25 years ago's Heavy Metal fan as they both exploit the adolescent need for masculinity in young males. Next time people go to a hip-hop club and look at a white suburban youth dressed to the nines in hip-hop appeal, picture him with long-hair, skin-tight ripped jeans, and a sleaveless whitesnake shirt and that's how cool he's going to look in a couple of decades.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by Cowboy89

I fully agree with Simmons. Today's Rap fan would have been 25 years ago's Heavy Metal fan as they both exploit the adolescent need for masculinity in young males. Next time people go to a hip-hop club and look at a white suburban youth dressed to the nines in hip-hop appeal, picture him with long-hair, skin-tight ripped jeans, and a sleaveless whitesnake shirt and that's how cool he's going to look in a couple of decades.

It might just be me, but that's how cool I think these tools look right now. I'll also go out on a limb and say today's top 40 (hip-hop) is the new disco.

[jammies]

Hummers. If you must buy a vehicle to show how cool you are, buy something I can see around when I'm behind you. Also, stop driving it like your brain has been surgically replaced with that of a crack-addled macaque.

EDIT - unless, of course, you've bought the authentic military model and outfitted it with a heavy machine-gun with which to mow down poor drivers, bicycle couriers and Sven. Damn you, Sven!

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by Muta

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8) Crotch rockets - Nothing screams 'D-Bag' like driving your crotch rocket up and down 17th on a Friday night... okay, maybe if you're driving your crotch rocket up and down 17th in an up-collar, which might be the case.

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I mostly agree.
Motorbikes in general are AWESOME and entirely not a fad, IF USED PROPERLY.
How do I define used properly?
Well it sure as hell isn't crusing up and down a crowded traffic filled street.
I bought a bike to ride it, not to crawl along between lights.

And using it properly sure as hell doesn't mean standing around with the "Shell's Angels" (anyone who's been to the Ship in the summer knows what I'm talking about) standing next to my bike that is exactly the same as everyone elses.

"So you got the red one eh? Yeah, I got the blue one...no big deal".

What a bunch of tools.

[Cowboy89]

Originally Posted by ShaolinFlame

Every topic that has been covered in rock has been covered in rap, RnB, country, and vice versa. Just because you choose to expose (your definition of) less mature topics in a certain genre doesn't stop those topics from existing across the genre spectrum, and more importantly it doesn't qualify any music as more legitimate or mature than any other.

Out

PS- Watch my videos on top of page 4 for HIPSTER OLYMPICS and MY NEW HAIRCUT!

Stop calling it a 'genre' when it contains samples mostly from the other genres of music mentioned.

I saw that New Haircut video a long time ago, very funny! I don't think I've seen the Hipster Olympics one yet (youtube for whatever reason isn't working for me right now).

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by Dion

The noisy exhaust pipes drivers put on their rice rockets and all.

Nose and tounge piercing. Stop mutilating yourself

That's one I don't get either. What does making your vehicle louder signify in the redneck culture anyway?

The one I can't stand is guys wearing pink.

I also hate it when guys spike up their hair towards the middle like a pseudo-mohawk. It's like they want to look hardcore, but they're chicken to go all the way.

[burn_this_city]

99% of what has been listed here already..

I'll add:
- Import Tuners
- Hip Hop Culture
- Hybrids
- IKEA
- $1000 handbags (my ex has 3)
- Reality TV of any variety
- Starbucks/Tim Hortons
- Environmentalists who get all high and mighty when I state I work in Oil & Gas
- Wiggers and Wasians

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

I also hate it guys spike up their hair towards the middle like a pseudo-mohawk. It's like they want to look hardcore, but they're chicken to go all the way.

Heh, I do that one on occasion when I'm going for something different. I did it once as a joke and a bunch of chicks complimented me on it so I do it once every few months now.

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

People Who Are Different Than Me!

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Whippersnappers!

[Shnabdabber]

1 - The horribly overused word and lifestyle... Extreme. Even worse if spelled Xtreme.
2 - Those stinky croc shoes.
3 - The ski goggles that some girls wear and pass off as shades.
4 - The poker scene. I enjoy the game, but the media is overdoing it. Too much, too fast.
5 - Emo's.
6 - The Live Strong bracelets.
7 - Guys who wear their hats sideways.
8 - Guys who wear hats backwards. It's cool if your 16, not so much when your 40.
9 - Chicks who swear like drunken sailors.
10 - Drums with stripes.
11 - ProTools.
12 - Flags on cars.

[Shnabdabber]

Forgot to add guys who cover their trucks back window with Fox stickers, and chicks who cover their cars in Roxy stickers.

[4X4]

Originally Posted by Shnabdabber

Forgot to add guys who cover their trucks back window with Fox stickers, and chicks who cover their cars in Roxy stickers.

What the hell do those stickers mean, anyway? Are they clothing lines or what?

[RougeUnderoos]

Well since we are hacking on certain music/fashion...

"Country" music sung by dimwitted macho men wannabe cowboys...

Big&Rich, Toby Keith... you know the type.

People badmouth hip hop for the bling and the big houses and tough guy lyrics... that's what Toby Keith does. I don't know if it's a fad, but the desk jockeys who gear up in Wranglers and big belt buckles and listen to this crappy music need to figure out they live in Tuscany and not on some ranch.

These tools are the Nickelback of country music and their fans are probably the same people.

[Aeneas]

Originally Posted by burn_this_city

99% of what has been listed here already..

I'll add:
- Import Tuners
- Hip Hop Culture
- Hybrids
- IKEA
- $1000 handbags (my ex has 3)
- Reality TV of any variety
- Starbucks/Tim Hortons
- Environmentalists who get all high and mighty when I state I work in Oil & Gas
- Wiggers and Wasians

None of my business, but I confess curiousity as to what came first? The "ex" part or the $3000 in purses?

[fatso]

it's funny how "wiggers" and hip-hop culture are getting blasted pretty good here. While I definitely find 'those people' annoying, I find the redneck / cowboy culture much more annoying. The city raised guys who drive trucks and buy their clothes at Lammle's. Or the redneck-wannabes that party at Cowboy's and sing along to Toby Keith...

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ha ha... RougeUnderoos beat me to it. We are clearly kindred spirits.

[Traditional_Ale]

Originally Posted by Cowboy89

Stop calling it a 'genre' when it contains samples mostly from the other genres of music mentioned.

If you had read his post, he has a music degree.

Rap/Hip-Hop is a genre.

The technique of sampling is an integral part of the asthetics of said genre.

If you don't like things with "sampling" then you best throw out everything written after Sgt Pepper and Dark Side of the Moon. Almost everything made since then (and certainly since the rise of the Digital Audio Workstation) has a HUGE "sampling" component to it.

Come to think about it, SGT Pepper has MORE sampling than the average hip-hop album!