Comments on: Announcements

By: AnnieMcPhee

AnnieMcPhee — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:39:20 +0000

Rachel, I parodied the Skinny Jeans song from Skinny Songs back on kate’s post about it. Best I could do, but it wasn’t too bad. At least it was to good music (to the tune of Billie Jean) instead of that horrid skinny music on that CD. I can’t help but feel kind of sorry for the woman, though – seriously. The songs were just sad in several ways, as happy as she meant them to be. Only on the cusp of fresh weight loss could anyone write like that, and it’s…well sort of sad.

By: Meowser

Meowser — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:22:16 +0000

(Plus I’m a little bitter that this kind of bullshit gets on Oprah, when so many amazing musicians struggle in total obscurity. By which I don’t *necessarily* mean myself.)

Oh, but you SHOULD mean yourself, woman.

By: Shade

Shade — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:38:38 +0000

Hey, this is completely off topic, but I hope you wonderful, clever people can help me out. Several months ago I read an essay on the value of anger here on the fatosphere, but I can’t remember where. IIRC, it talked about how anger can help us get important shit done.

I’ve looked around, but there are a heck of a lot of blogs here now (yay!) Can anyone help me out?

By: La di Da

La di Da — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:41:09 +0000

Ms Harding?

http://xkcd.com/402/

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:46:43 +0000

We listened to some of the clips on the website. The lyrics aside, my husband, the jazz musician who has boxfulls of music honors and trophies and went to college on a full music scholarship, says the music itself is hideous.

By: Tari

Tari — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:04:37 +0000

haven’t brought myself to actually listen to the songs just yet

I went to the website and listened to the clips, because I feel personally affronted as a songwriter that this kind of schlockery is being paraded around a if it is actual Music, and not horrid high school poetry being sung along to over-produced karaoke tapes. (Plus I’m a little bitter that this kind of bullshit gets on Oprah, when so many amazing musicians struggle in total obscurity. By which I don’t *necessarily* mean myself.)

This is some of the worst alleged music I’ve ever endured. It has all the soul of a Coke Machine, and includes some of the most trite lyrics I’ve ever seen that weren’t intended to be a joke. And that’s not even getting to the part where I think the message of said lyrics is stupid and then some.

By: Lexy

Lexy — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:35:33 +0000

haha Rachel, that might teach them to spam people huh?

Probably not, but it will be funny, so yay.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:27:31 +0000

Haha, I was approached also to review the Skinny Songs CD on my “diet and fitness blog” and took them up on it. I haven’t brought myself to actually listen to the songs just yet, but I plan to. I don’t think mine will be the sort of review they intended.

By: meowser

meowser — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:57:54 +0000

I spent years in misery
‘Cause everyone who looked at me
Was thinking evil thoughts about my thighs

Didn’t Gilda Radner already parody this in back in 1977? (Remember “Goodbye Saccharin”?)

By: LilahMorgan

LilahMorgan — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:29:51 +0000

Oh God, Tori. The lyrics. They’re even worse than I could have imagined. Particularly “I’m a Hottie Now”:

I spent years in misery
‘Cause everyone who looked at me
Was thinking evil thoughts about my thighs

No, honey. That’s called paranoia. Nobody else is thinking that much about you.