Given that the states are celebrating Thanksgiving today and I do enjoy dinners with friends and strangers while making comments that will give pause at the dinner table, I'll keep this brief. But something has come to my attention that reminds me how grateful I am for human nature. Yes, for it is always important to find purpose in one's existence. The role of Krampus is to expose the less than positive natures of others, to bring them to light, and never to reward the foolish, ignorant or overall naughty.
If you have a television, I have little doubt that you've seen the ad for the game Band Hero, allowing groups to live out their rock and roll, or other musical dreams in the confines of your own homes. This particular commercial features young country crossover poplet Taylor Swift. You might remember Taylor, the young girl resembling an anorexic Goldilocks who was interrupted at the MTV VMA's. Oh yes, Kanye in a Hennessey fueled haze leapt onto the stage when the poor girl started to accept her award, took the mic and went into a tirade on how he'd let her finish, but Beyonce made one of the best videos of all time. Now, at the time, I'd have to agree with Kanye's detractors. His ego has gone too far, please shut him up and remove him from the stage! Fortunately Beyonce was gracious enough that during her own acceptance of an award later that evening, she brought Taylor back up to finish her statement. Wonderful.
But now ladies and gentlemen, something has come to light that paints Taylor in a less than becoming light. Remember that Band Hero game I mentioned at the beginning of this post? It would appear that Miss Swift has put her cowboy boot into her mouth in an act that rivals, if not surpasses the ego of Mr. Kanye West. You see, someone must have told Taylor that Band Hero is like karaoke, only without going to a bar to embarrass oneself. Because now, realizing that she is being paid handsomely for her songs in Band Hero, she isn't making a cent from any karaoke performance using her music. And she wants that to stop. So now, little miss Taylor Swift, the 'innocent' girl from country roots believes that if you're in a smoky bar late at night, the DJ puts on her song and you're butchering it or even singing it well, you're breaking the law. At least as she perceives it. She wants a cut. But if she comes into a karaoke bar and her songs are being played or performed, she will threaten legal action against the karaoke DJ, the establishment and possibly the singers as well!
This level of stupidity seems to be born from country crossover acts every decade. Several years ago, Garth Brooks made the statement that given the durability of CD's, barring unusual physical damage, compact discs with his music would last forever. And given that realization, he wanted a larger cut. Not more money immediately for recordings mind you, but he wanted to be compensated for secondary sales revenue. Let me break this down for you. If Garth Brooks had his way, every time you sold your used CD to a friend, had a garage sale or sold it on Ebay, he wants a cut of that sale! Unless Taylor has somehow uncovered some long standing karaoke conspiracy theory, every lounge singer or karaoke performing fan with their own dreams of stardom are about to be legally cornholed. Sure, go ahead and enjoy her music! But if you sing along in any way other than with Band Hero for which she has been compensated, she will SUE your ass!
I'm starting to theorize that Kanye 'I'm a gay fish' West may have been, in his own way, acting like an early warning system. I dare say at the VMA's while his brain was addled with alcohol, Kanye's Ego Sense was tingling! I believe suddenly he was aware of another massive ego in the room that rivaled his own. Like a predatory beast establishing dominance in his territory, the rant we saw at the VMA's was simply the best he could muster while sober. Kanye was trying to warn us! Now in hindsight, perhaps we were all acting too harshly on Kanye. HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA I'm sorry, I can't say that with a straight face. OF COURSE the public acted accordingly! But if my theory is correct, then it shows that perhaps Kanye's ego is good for something: rooting out other explosive egos like pigs searching for karaoke suing truffles.
Taylor Swift: Putting the cunt in Country.
Happy Thanksgiving, you little twang tang!
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