Now you are the one ASSuming.

(Wow, sorry if my font is crazy, but I'm at work and can't edit it!)

To the corner, both of you.

Umm excuse me?????

** adding gas to the fire, but serious none the less**

:p I was going to say The Temptations but they were also founded in 1960. The Beatles beat them in terms of mainstream success but I love The Temptations more and listen to their greatest hits almost everyday.

There were boy bands before 1960 that I loved but none that received the mainstream critical acclaim and notoriety (even generations later) that The Beatles received.

I like watching films that make me think...sometimes. I occasionally flip to the Sundance channel when using my parent's house for their digital cable. But a lot of the time movies are escapism for me, and I LIKE watching stupid, pointless movies that make me laugh or feel good for two hours without much effort. Same with music. There's a place for "selling out"...it's entertainment and that doesn't make it less valid than "indie" music. My iPhone has music that is completely across the board and I listen to all of it, from local bands to Gaga. Art isn't just about angst and drama, it's also about effecting a reaction in the consumer and I never have and probably never will understand why just making people happy isn't as important as making them scream about their dark inner angst.

True. I was just starting something.

As for the Beatles v Temptations, it was pretty close. British invasion was in December 63, and Temps had their big hit in January 64.

BluPhire... if I missed another group, please inform me!

The Beatles are just that classic boy band that I'll always picture getting off of planes with screaming girls around them (and everything DrPhil said).

And they were so much cuter than the boy bands of today! :)

^^ Ok, that answers it! haha

Ringo Starr FTW.

Yeah don't mind me I was just starting something since some other people are fighting over trivial things.

LOL

I finally heard the stupid song that inspired this stupid thread. I don't think it has anything to do with Lady Gaga. :confused:

It is the copy of her style. Gaga copied the big cone boobs from Madonna and now Katy Perry is doing it because the industry thinks wild outfits make you more popular! Katy Perry described herself as a confident girl from next door and then she wears blue hair? Just a major sell out!!

lots of girls next door have blue hair these days. Get out of 1974 silly heffa.

So apparently someone, on the behalf of the Beach Boys, is talking about suing Katy Perry if she doesn't hand over royalties for her song "California Gurls."

Apparently because Snoop says "I wish they all could be California Girls" that they automatically stole their ideas from the Beach Boys.

Seriously? So whenever someone says that line, we have to pay royalties to the BB? Oh Lord. :rolleyes:

People just like finding a way to make some extra cash without actually working for it. Kind of like the lady that got over on McDonalds for serving her hot coffee.

Umm yes.

Yes I don't agree with it as well, but they should have re-recorded that line so they wouldn't pay.

There has already been precedence.

On American Idol, David Archuleta cost Idol money when while singing Stand By Me, he ad-libbed "To all you beautiful girls." Which is Sean Kingston's song. They had to pay royalties.

In Texas we do not say Daisy Dukes.

That is beyond stupid. I'm pretty sure the Beach Boys did not create that line, it was probably in existence long before they sang it.

Yes we do.....but YOU might not.

It was the Beach Boys' publishers, not them. They (or at least Mike Love) seem pretty cool with it:

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/385849...entertainment/

No kidding. I love me some Gaga, though I usually listen to things like Rage Against the Machine. Went to her concert last week and had a great time people watching. :D As for Katy Perry, her song irritates me. The "fine, fresh, fierce" line sounds like "Farm Fresh Eggs" to me.

Eh, i've never heard anyone say it. Perhaps it's regional, but I wouldn't consider it Texas slang the way people generally say "Coke" instead of "soda" or "pop".

I clearly know nothing of "Texas slang" because everyone here says 'soda.' The only time you hear someone say "coke" is if they are asking for a Coca-Cola/Pepsi.

Linguistically speaking, Texas falls squarely in the "Coke for soda" camp - perhaps El Paso excepted. :) I forget where I read a recent study, but yes, it is "Texas slang".

As to "Daisy Dukes" - I think it may be more of a generational thing than regional. "Short shorts" and "hiphuggers" were/are used by those of a certain age.

I know Texas is considered a "coke" state in the soda/coke/pop/other debate, but I very rarely hear someone use the word "coke" in that context either.

I'm going to assume it's the people outside of the major cities that say "coke."

Nope - I'm in Houston, and everyone I know says "coke"
Well, not my friend from Philadelphia . . .

Alrighty. Well maybe it's everywhere but Dallas and El Paso.. lol

I think k_slut mentioned the coke thing as well.

The big Texas cities are all full of transplants, so slang is all over the place. It's usually in the small and mid-sized cities that I've heard the "Hey, do you want a coke?" thing. When I'm in Dallas/Houston/Austin, it's "what do you want to drink?"

I personally switch between coke and soda (military brat). I think I only said "pop" when I lived in Indiana and visited family in Michigan.

Yes, everyone says Coke, and I've been/lived all over. (Though not El Paso...) Though it's more in the context of, "I'm going to go get a coke" and coming back with sprite or sunkist, etc. than "do you want a coke?" "yes?" "what flavor?"

And the shorts thing is very possible. I am a baby.

Okay...

STOP.

See the flaw in your argument?




BY THE WAY, I live in Texas and I say "pop."

Sure I'm from Michigan, but I still fall under "everybody."

Just saying. :)

I actually thought it was a new single by Ace of Base

;)

This is one of my pet peeves (and I know I'm probably guilty of doing it from time to time)....the whole fallacy of "everyone does/says/thinks/etc." But it only really bugs me (or makes me suuppper happy lol) when I'm having an argument with someone.


Generally speaking though, if even 1 person says they don't say Coke....then clearly not everyone says it. :p

I do know we've had convos about the coke/pop/soda thing, but I didn't know that you could be a "Coke" state or "pop" state. Ehh...i'll stick to soda.