Hundred Dollar Bill

What just happened. O____O
 
You're both bonkers. That cat made a one-time appearance, and for good reason; it sucked. The Loon has been around for many-a-song, and has shit its beautiful shit all over the Paradise Edition. Besides, the Loon has its own awesome accomplice that dominates the cat anyway, and that would be the Random Screaming Chick in Gods & Monsters.
 
Suck it.

OKAY, AS OF RIGHT NOW, MYRIIIAM IS AHEAD BY ONE VOTE. THIS HAS BEEN TAKING TOO LONG SO THE POLL IS CLOSED NOW. MYRIIIAM IS THE WINNER. CAPS LOCK.

No that's Miley Cyrus her and Hannah Montana are like completely different people that doesn't even count.

My Elvis costume idea kind of went down the drain..
 
I volunteered to work at a Fairytale Festival that my town's main library was hosting, and I was going to just make my costume for that, but my mom wouldn't help me so we ended up buying a costume the morning of the Festival. I got a Peter Pan costume. Unfortunately, and kind of obviously, my mom isn't going to buy me another Halloween costume since she got me the Peter Pan one, so Elvis is going to have to wait until next year. I know Peter Pan isn't directly related to all things Lana, but I am a stan like no other, so just hear me out while I explain how Peter Pan can still be relevant to Lana/this competition.
 
Lana always goes on about being young forever, getting into trouble, flying driving fast, true love, living in Paradise (Neverland, duh), all that jazz. Well, Peter Pan does all of those things!! So in a sense, Lana = Peter Pan..

I can't believe no one's taken the idea of dressing up as Heavy Hitler. After marching into Paris, I'd drink Veuve Clicquot and eat Ho Hos until I was fat enough to look like this:

 
Then I'd send the SS (Summertime Sadness) guard to look for that "king Jewish maven" and perpetuate the Lanaexposed Leak Holocaust while simultaneously denying it, saying "Is that true?"

I guess i wasn't invited to the ball, so i'll just set the building alight from the outside and watch you all burn to death as i slowly twirl in a circle to the sounds of your screams.

Delicious is gone already? Fuck, you're all stale, aren't you.

I did the same thing a few months ago but with swag
1. Born to Swag
2. Swag to the Races
3. Swag Jeans
4. Swag Games
5. Diet Mountain Swag
6. National Swagthem
7. Swag Paradise
8. Radio (swag)
9. Swagmen
10. Million Dollar Swag
11. Summertime Swagness
12. This Is What Makes Us Swag
 
Swag doesn't even feel like a real word to me anymore.

FIFY

Birthday. The last minute pls.
 
WYR cut yourself while listening to Miley Cyrus or Ashley Tisdale?

The bizarre middle-8 in "Match Made In Heaven," where she sings the part about "I am your Queen, AHHHahhhAHHH!"

FIFY

Is it weird that I'm a straight male and I knew what this was from?
 
 

WHAT. DID YOU JUST USE A DAYS OF OUR LIVES GIF?!!!??[!?|!]!?1?!!! MARRY ME.

You did! You'll be happy to know she's still a bitch and bouncing between three different men.

WHAT. DID YOU JUST USE A DAYS OF OUR LIVES GIF?!!!??[!?|!]!?1?!!! MARRY ME.

HOEMAHGAHD.
 

 
You know Days!?

Ha, i suppose you're fucked then (not a bad thing to be, right?) It's some type of Chorus effect with the depth and rate turned up really high (and it might also have tremolo?) Auto-Tune makes the vocal vacillate quickly between notes, it's a very distinct effect and sound, nothing else really does that. Call me crazy, but the effect in BoaF sounds nothing like A-T. I also happen to really like it, whereas i have no tolerance for A-T. I think people need to stop calling any vocal effect Auto-Tune. Where's the loon when you need him? Her? It?
 
Guys, i've never heard a single Jonas Bros or Hannah Montana song, for serious. I can't believe all the pop music revolutionizing that i am missing out on.

WHAT. DID YOU JUST USE A DAYS OF OUR LIVES GIF?!!!??[!?|!]!?1?!!! MARRY ME.

Woo. Glad to see I'm not alone in my hatred for The Beetles...
 
 
...this, however, is pure slander.
 

 
Edit: Oh Christ I've missed a Monicker rant. *paces*
 
Edit #2:
 
 
Yes. I always say this. I feel like I'm back in high school.

I always feel smarter after reading one of Monicker's posts.

I'd like to, but i can't, really. It'd be too long, and i don't have the time. It's something i've been mulling over for many years and i have material collected in my mind for an essay of sorts! I don't think this forum is the avenue for that nor is it the time right now.
 
 
I definitely agree that The Beatles are a better band, but the level of acclaim that they receive in proportion to their merits is much more skewed than anyone in music history. The Beatles can be a GREAT band if one so wishes to call them that, but that doesn't have to exclude how overrated they are. Given where they have been and continue to be placed in music history (and beyond, because their stature extends into many aspects of culture, not just music) there's nothing left for them to be other than overrated--no one can be that good. How can they not be overrated when you consider how cult-like the view of them is? One of the more frustrating things about Beatles idolatry is how it diminishes the efforts of everyone else--people who made significant contributions to popular music and innovated just as much if not more, people who either pushed popular music forward, or just plain wrote better songs. The Beatles, as they've existed since their demise, are a global enterprise, it’s marketing, very effective marketing. It’s scary. I think people just repeat the baby boomer rhetoric--that started developing when rock criticism was starting to be a more serious thing, when it became an industry--because it's so culturally ingrained and, year after year, only solidifies itself more and more. Repetition is a very strong force. Capitalism continues to do wonders for The Beatles, so it works out. There is longevity there. What do i really think of The Beatles? I think they're all right, they have good songs, but they mostly bore me. I think they had, and continue to have, mass appeal because their music is easy and very digestible while having the advantage of being seen as Art. It challenges the general public enough to engage them, but it's still safe. There's also so much nostalgia built into this machine. Consider also timing, luck, looks, style, attitude, personality, etc., wrap it up in a nice package and have it spit out to the public via ceaseless aggrandizement from every corner of the media, and you get the worldwide cult of The Beatles. It's a weird, successful formula that allows them to stay right where they have been for the past four decades. It's a weird thing to listen to their music--it's not really like listening to music, but more like listening to a cultural phenomenon or a sermon. Who the hell wants that?
 
 
On to something else: Hipster culture. It's not one defined thing, but rather multifaceted (Nabakov is undoubtedly revered by certain sects of contemporary hipsterdom). When you consider just how much its meaning has changed since 1950s beatnik culture, you realize that, ultimately, the term is pretty useless. It's too open-ended to have any real value. It means different (generally derogatory) things to different people and different generations. It's a catch-all term for easily censuring a group of people whose tastes, interests, and "identity" rub us the wrong way, usually because of their insincerity. That, to me, is what hipster culture is--a culture of insincerity, a culture of cool. I've noticed it comes up around here a lot and how, from person to person, it means totally different things. I myself would never consider Nirvana to be part of hipster culture as we know it today. What's odd about hipster culture is that ANYTHING can be hip, nothing is off limits, anything can appropriated and made "cool" or so uncool that it's cool, or ironic. Let's look at the person for whom we are all here right now. Depending on who you ask, LDR is almost emblematic of hipster culture (probably because, what, she likes "old" things?). But i get the feeling that "real" hipsters scoff at the idea of Lana Del Rey. Yet others probably embrace her only ironically. How do we establish a common meaning? Does it even matter? How about forgetting all that shit and not wasting thoughts and energy on it?

I GIVE UP ON THIS BULLSHIT, Y'ALL DON'T KNOW WHAT GOOD MUSIC IS!!!!!!!!!!!

WHO IN THE FUCK DOESN'T LIKE PAWN SHOP BLUES?!