Recently I was rummaging through the ever popular YouTube.com when I came across a video of Howard Sterns talk radio show. For those of you who have never heard of Howard Stern be glad... try and picture the world most unhappy person, give them a talk radio show, and let them speak their mind... and you have Howard Stern.
I normally would have just bypassed this Howard Stern video and gone on to other videos that are actually worth my time... but the title of the video caught my attention. Howard Stern Vs. The Jonas Brothers. Knowing Howard Stern and his ever so common negative remarks about... well just about everything... my curiosity drew me in. The video was pretty much Howard Stern critiquing The Jonas Brothers popular song "Love Bug." As the video started, I knew the critique could not be good.
Before I go into detail about what was said in the video I am going to show you the music video for Love Bug. "Why not show the actual Howard Stern video?" you might ask. The answer is simple. It has lots of profanity and things related so if you want to see it... look it up yourself.
Okay now that your memory is refreshed on the Love Bug song, we can go into detail about what Howard Stern's opinion on this song.
He first stated that he thought that The Jonas Brothers would be over by now and that he is surprised that this song is so successful. He goes on to say that he could write a song like this- that all he has to do is sing like a girl and write girly lyrics. Which he does about 20 seconds later with someone playing a horrible version of the song on guitar and his version of a "girly voice." Because I am not for profanity written in my blog I will help you to imagine Howard Sterns lyrics. Its simple, think about Howard Stern's opinion on one of Disney's heart throb icons, add his usual profanity, his "girly voice" imitation, and some poor guitar playing, and you have the song. I have to admit that after the first 15 or so seconds of his song I lost interest and moved on to other videos, but I feel that this video summed up Howard Stern pretty well thus proving that he is a hater.
By this whole post I am in no way saying that I like The Jonas Brothers, but more of saying that I don't like Howard Stern. I do admit though that the Love Bug song is cute, in the manliest way possible, and that I can see why so many people like it. In fact, just as I finished that sentence, the chorus of the song got stuck in my head. It's catchy, The Jonas Brothers know how to write a song that will appeal to their crowd- the elementary to teenage girl population. (and that population of guys who like catchy music they can someday sing to their girlfriends) I admit that if I could sing and play guitar better I would play this song to a special girl... and I am sure if Howard Stern could sing and play the guitar better (and wasnt a hater) that he would too... the song is perfect for something like that.
All in all after watching most of the video I have come to these simple conclusions.
-Howard Stern is a hater.
-Howard Stern is a talk radio show host- not a music critique.
-Howard Stern's music choice does not correlate to a teenage girl's music choice.
and lastly...
-Don't listen to Howard Stern.
4 years ago
4 comments:
Great conclusions! That song is one of my favorites! I agree that Stern is a bit vulgar, but then again, it is just his character. The vulgarity of his show is very often over the edge.
This blog made me realize that I shouldn't be a hater of the JoBros. I'll admit I bag on them a lot because my sister is madly in love with Nick. :) But I should be grateful for them and their innocence because they are about the only musicians who aren't corrupting the youth of our day! And I'll admit, their lyrics are cute. I'd melt if a guy played those songs for me.
Great blog! Those talk show hosts always seem to be more negative then Ebert and Roeper. I agree with the statement that talk show hosts' shouldn't have any say in music critique but then again they'll say anything to get people to watch their show.
I love playing their songs on the guitar and I agree with the girl above me; their lyrics are clean in content and just plain cute. =)
What this made me realize, is that i believe that i, despite the fact that i do not like Howard Stern and think that he is a very poor choice of radio to listen to, i do agree with him in this case. I do not like the Jonas Brothers. I don't think they are musically talented. They're stuff is exceedingly simplistic. The lyrics lack so much, but hey what ever satisfies teenage girls and what sells is ok right? However its not in my personal taste and leaves so much to be desired.
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