Hawthorne Heights & Nickelback

Here are a couple extremely negative reviews from RYM that Kim wanted me to post over hereabouts.

First up, Hawthorne Heights: If Only You Were Lonely

Are you angsty? In junior high? Do your parents/peers not, like, get you? Are you a cutter? Do you cry while masturbating? Do you write sad poetry about yourself and how misunderstood you are? Have you dyed your hair black and does it sweep down over one of your eyes? Is American Idiot a brilliant, intellectual concept album? Aren’t My Chemical Romance great? Are these questions totally unfair and the person writing them a total jerk? Do you love songs where the background singers echo every second fucking line and once in a while some guy screams like he’s about to burst into tears? Do you like all of your songs to sound like pretty much the same song?

Well, if yes to any or all of those, maybe you’ll enjoy Hawthorne Heights. I sure didn’t.

Here is the video for the album’s lead single, “Saying Sorry” LAWLZ.

Nickelback: Silver Side Up

Nickelback is a fucking goddamn disgrace. Fuck you so much, Chad Kroeger. You ever see Salo? That’s what I want to happen to you. All of it.

note: If you have not seen Salo, it’s an adapation of the Marquis de Sade’s novel The 120 Days of Sodom, which is about the foulest thing ever. The book was written after the Marquis was released from prison and he was, so to say, a little down on humanity in general at that point. The movie was made by Pier Paolo Pasolini, an Italian director who had lived through the reign of Mussolini, which he adapted the story to be about, and he was murdered shortly after the film’s release. Watching the film pretty much made me lose all faith in humanity for a while. So in conclusion, if you haven’t seen Salo, I wouldn’t really recommend it, unless you really need some encouragement to kill yourself. Don’t get me wrong. It is a movie that absolutely achieves its goals but it is ceaselessly horrific, the most nihilistic film ever made.

~ by jshopa on April 24, 2008.