The Jonas Brothers Suck

[Yavin4]

There I said it. The Jonas Brothers suck as well as all other Disney Corporate Rock and Roll music.

That is all.

[rcrush]

1. OMG Flame War

You sure you want to go there?

[Sultana]

29. It would be funny if this topic turns into a flame war

:D

JB sucks even though I've never heard their music :thumbsdown:

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. I shall stand at your side, armed against all High School Musical orcs.

Huzzah!

[Yavin4]

4. And We Shall Fight Together!

Huzzah!!!

[kay1864]

50. DO you hear the people SING....

Stand and fight!

[Initech]

6. Same Disney Channel horseshit either way.

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. We shall puncture them all, with higher standards and genuine creativity!

Huzzah!

[XemaSab]

41. We'll fight them on the beaches

We'll fight them in the trenches

We'll fight them in Orange County.

:patriot:

[AlCzervik]

3. i still haven't heard them, are they played on the radio or just on the disney channel?

[Initech]

5. To use a Bill Hicks quote - "They are demons set loose on the earth to lower the standards".

Kids music at least used to be somewhat tolerable but these dipshits set a new standard for mediocrity.

[Inchworm]

7. I'm very happy that I have yet to hear them

Well, I've yet to realize I've heard it.

They seem to stir a lot of publicity though.

:hi:

[alphafemale]

8. Marketing can sell anything.

They have been marketed like the BEATLES

But the Beatles actually had talent

[Yavin4]

19. In Their Day, The Beatles Were Revolutionary

Even their pop tunes shook up the world. The Beatles grew out of that phase and began to make real music.

[LynneSin]

33. In their day the Beatles weren't mass-marketed by a major corporation

I'm just saying.

[HuskerDU]

45. Maybe it wasn't a major corporation, but somebody turned

out a bunch of Beatles dolls and trinkets and they even made movies and had a cartoon.

[LynneSin]

46. Well that's true but it was nothing like the Disney juggernaut

I'm kinda glad that the Beatles weren't around today - god forbid what the corporate media would have done to them.

[NashVegas]

48. You Know What Capitol's Marketing Was For the Beatles? Release the Single

and get the fuck out of the way.

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. And then there's the things that really matter.

Like Twilight...and Edward.

[Midlodemocrat]

21. and Emmett and Jasper.

:swoon:

Not to mention Taylor Kitsch on Friday Night Lights.

[MrSlayer]

11. Yep, they're sucking all the way to the bank.

I am opposed to the Jonas Brothers on many levels and I am very familiar with their brand of suckiness as I have a teenaged daughter but they're never going to want for anything in their lives. I wouldn't mind sucking like that. Looking back, I should have sold out.

[Richard Steele]

12. Of course. They were bought as infants & raised by DisneyCo, just like Brittney Spears before them.

They suck, they blow, they self-destruct upon leaving the bubble.
But they make BILLION$ for their owners before they flare out,
and their owners have have a hundred more just like them, waiting
to take their place.

DisneyCo is just about the most calculating & manipulative
pit of PURE EVIL that you're likely to come across in this lifetime.
At least the worst pit that stands up in public with an oficial NAME.

Just like the infamous child-sex-brothels of Thailand,
DisneyCo "owns" several thousand cute and/or/talented children
whose impoverished parents sold them to DisneyCo...

DisneyCo avoids all our modern & inconvenient "anti-slavery" laws with
thousands of lawyers who spend their days making it look
legal to sign 8-year-olds to 30-year contracts with "inclusive image rights".

Legal definitions come and go, but SLAVERY is still
at the other end of the dumbwaiter.

[Sequoia]

52. I'm with you. I keep telling people how evil Disney really is

and they just roll their eyes. "What! You don't want to go to Disneyland?! Are you nuts!"

So I've been a few times. It is so expensive and there aren't any trees in ugly Anaheim. Have you ever noticed that those old Disney cartoon kids had no parents? Mickey, Daisy Duck, Donald, Huey, Luey, and Duey. Then they take classic stories like The Hunchback and twist it all around and then, God help us...Pocahantas with John as her love interest. She was 12 and he was like 25 or so...child molestor! That's Disney for you. Screw up kids for life.

[Tabasco_Dave]

13. They all wear chastity rings

how fucking lame is that. I had Chastity pimples and braces when i was their age but i didn't want them. I hope they never get laid. Their music sucks too.

[Sequoia]

53. Oh, you crack me up !!!

I hate going into stores and seeing them on t-shirts and other junk. Them and High School Musical...shudder.

[EastTennesseeDem]

14. Come ON!!! How can you not like ethereal, poetic lyrics such as these?

She was all I ever wanted
She was all I ever needed and more
She walked out my door
Then she went away
Left my heart in two
Left me standing here
Singing all these blues, yeah

You left without a single word
Not even sorry
It might've hurt worse to hear you say
I'm leaving, goodbye
But your smile still makes my heart sing
Another sad song
I can't forget it
I won't regret it
Cause I'm still in love with you

We had fun under the sun
And when winter came she'd be my angel
We were so in love
Then she went away
Left my heart in two
Left me standing here
Singing all these blues, yeah

You left without a single word
Not even sorry
It might've hurt worse to hear you say
I'm leaving, goodbye
But your smile still makes my heart sing
Another sad song
I can't forget it
I won't regret it
Cause I'm still in love with you
Still in love with you

I don't know what hurts worse baby
Seeing you with him or being alone
On my own
I know he doesn't love you baby
Not like I did
Oh, what's the point
You're not listening anyway

You left without a single word
Not even sorry
It might've hurt worse to hear you say
I'm leaving, goodbye
But your smile still makes my heart sing
Another sad song
I can't forget it
I won't regret it
Cause I'm still in love with

You left without a single word
Not even sorry
It might've hurt worse to hear you say
I'm leaving, goodbye
But your smile still makes my heart sing
Another sad song
I can't forget it
I won't regret it
Cause I'm still in love with you
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That's like John Lennon, Pete Townshend, Paul Simon, Radiohead, and Modest Mouse in one.

[MilesColtrane]

20. That reads like it was written by a computer.

Disney's Crap-o-Tron 3000™ no doubt.

[Initech]

22. Actually, it's more like Bruce Willis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHwjLS0Zz9E

[rcrush]

24. Hey are you reading lines from Anakin Skywalker from AOTC?

[XemaSab]

42. Fuckin' A bro

:patriot:

[Tabasco_Dave]

15. The Osmond's could kick their ass

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUo3qp7Y0Jg

[Fire Walk With Me]

16. Huzzah!

[Beaverhausen]

17. What music did you listen to when you were 12?

[Initech]

23. Kids music used to be at least somewhat tolerable.

These dipshits set a new standard of mediocrity.

[XemaSab]

43. The Doors

:shrug:

[Sheets of Easter]

18. They make Hanson look like Slayer.

[jakefrep]

25. Well, duh!

[KamaAina]

26. Locking. Not LBN.

:P

[tigereye]

27. this is news?

:rofl:

[Deja Q]

28. JUust wait until the yget into the rock and roll hall of fame...

Whether, by 2030, it's owned by rolling stone or velveeta is an issue for debate, however...

[NashVegas]

30. What Are You Offering As An Alternative?

Kids NEED to have their own music that's not necessarily in their parents' realm.

Why on earth should anyone's 11-year-old girl be expected to relate to Metallica or Jay-Z?

[mvd]

31. Sure, I don't get the dislike

Some Disney pop is just good pop and can appeal to anyone. Brie Larsen made a CD at 15 that I think is very good. I give the Jonas Brothers credit for maturing - I like their new CD more than the first one for sure.

[NashVegas]

34. To Be Honest

I haven't heard a note of their stuff. I'm great at avoiding Top 40.

I went to see Twilight, just for the heck of it, and was intrigued to notice that the soundtrack owed no more than three songs to anyone with a hit prior to 2000.

Still even the Beatles were a boy band, in spite of their later hip factor. There's another thread about them elsewhere. Sometime, look at the lyrics of a typical Beatles song & compare it to something like Cole Porter and you'll realize how juvenile they actually were.

[mvd]

36. The Beatles started with simple love lyrics

Well written, but simple. I wouldn't say many boy bands of today match up - but you would have to hear to decide.

[Yavin4]

37. Kids Should Listen to Music That THEY Create

Not an evil corporation hell-bent on destroying real creativity.

Rock and Rap got stared by kids doing their own thing.

[mvd]

38. When I was a kid, the Smurfs were my level

Not all kids are ready for every kind of music. When they get older, I agree - they can decide what they like. I will always maintain that mainstream does not equal bad. There's good and bad stuff, and future generations will always complain.

[mvd]

39. One final thing

Yes, there is plenty in the mainstream that I wouldn't buy. Exploration isn't exactly encouraged - but like in all times, there's stuff that I enjoy. It seems the bad can get magnified with copycats of the bad that sells.

[NashVegas]

44. I Agree 100%

But we must acknowledge that marketers are not going to simply leave them alone.

Rock (and rap) are, respectively, 30 and almost 60 years old. If a 12 year old prefers the Jonas Brothers to Sondre Lerche, they're missing out. But if you don't let them find the really good stuff on their own, it will never be their own.

[mvd]

49. But you'd have to listen to top 40, and you don't

I've listened to a lot of it, and there's some good pop - but I avoid the rap and nu-metal for the most part.

[NashVegas]

54. Every Now and Then, Something Good Leaks Through

I'm assuming M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" leaked through. Please tell me it did, k?

American music is in a hard place right now. The crowd (mostly older rockers who won't give up the ghost) who controls the promotional budgets are clinging desperately to keep their jobs, even though they don't have a clue or really care about getting good, soul-satisfying music to market for anyone under the age of 35. Every day they're a little more irrelevant.

In the meantime, we're swamped with artists off the UK charts (which isn't necessarily a bad thing) where people haven't been programmed by radio marketing to go out of their way to hate on anything that's not their favorite genre of music. As a result, people get to sell albums with less impedance, which encourages US record reps to work them over here.

[mvd]

55. Yes, I believe it did

Actually not my favorite top 40 song, though.

[Beaverhausen]

51. Do you know who writes their songs?

[LynneSin]

32. Jonas Brothers: Future doped out out of control sex addicts

Happened to Brittney, happened to Lindsey.

All those Disney kids end up going bonkers.

[MineralMan]

35. Is that the name of their new album?

How odd. You left out the quotation marks, though.

[KG]

40. why the hate? they're so bland and innocuous, it's like hating water.

[geardaddy]

47. This warrants a post?

I thought it was common knowledge.