MUSIC PET PEEVES (Videos Too)
 

I was just driving home listening to Kelly Price's first CD and it reminded me of some things that I STRONGLY DISLIKE about music.

1. "Interludes": Especially those "dramatic ones, i.e. Total's first CD -- the take a dump one. :mad: Also Ashanti's CD, who in the hell told that cow to have 5 "skits" on her CD. If I want SKITS, I will turn on SNL, MAD TV, Living Color, etc. The only Interlude that I liked of Kelly Price's is her Star Spangled Banner one on Mirror Mirror

2. "VOICE MAIL INTERLUDES": Remember Mary's on her first CD, well Ashanti has one too. BOOOOOOOOOOO, I have my own voice mail messages to listen to.

3. CDs that do not contain the lyrics. Some artists NEED the lyrics because they sound like they have a mouth full of crap or they talk too fast for me to understand.

This is all I have for now, but why don't you share to jog my memory? :p

Oooo, you know what I hate? When I'm making a mix cd, say of love songs (which I looooooove to do) and right at the end of the song is an up-beat interlude to that completely breaks the whole mood :mad: !!!!! Ginuwine does this alllllll the time. I love G, but when I'm trying to be serenaded to sleep, I don't want to wake up to a party, right after I'm out.

Videos
 

I can't stand to see a guy in a video take his shirt off and then have a "bird" chest.:rolleyes: Or seeing Fat Joe on MTV with his shirt off.:eek: That's ridiculous.

For all of the men reading this post, when you do that Puleeeeeze be in shape. If not "TANK TOPS"!!!

I just though of another one: ugly people who have no higher goal than to be AAAALLLLLL UP IN THE CAMERA. In the words of Juvenile, back that thing up!!!

Songs that cut off with no warning. Musiq's has one or two like this. I prefer the fade out.

I agree about all CD's needing lyrics.

Also, every R&B song does not need a rap or talking part in it. Not every one.

Songs that are the epitome of what they are singing about. Only example I can think of (lol) is Toni Braxton's Another Sad Love Song. I mean, how you gone write a sad love song about another sad love song???

That's all I can think of right now.

Oh like this one
 

**Fictional example**

shoo be dooooo shoo be giiiiiiiirl shoo la la la la

**RAP: GIRL YOU MY NIZZLE fa shizzle and i wanna be with you all dizzle**

shooooo be doooooo la la la

DA ISHT works me something fierce.

Re: Oh like this one
 

I hate Snoop Doggy Dogg! That sh*t sounds wack! What happen to his talent. He went from being #1 to dead last. His music is crap. Oh, He is the worst. he is horrible.

People talking or shouting in a song....DJ Clue is guilty of this.It's gets so bad I just turn the song off because I'm tired of him screaming Clue throughout the song.

Interludes that are better than the majority of the songs on the CD.112 is guilty.

Videos

P Diddy trying to revive his career by appearing in every video released.

Damon Dash dancing in everything.

Also, every R&B song does not need a rap or talking part in it. Not every one.
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But if they did that, then what would Jah Rule do??!!! Since he is the new rappers delight for every damn singer these days . Did I mention that he irritates me to no end!!!!!!!!!! :mad:

Ooops!
 

I almost forgot Sisqo, all of that twirling and jumping has got to stop! Your name is not Tinker Bell...leave that for the cheerleaders and tumblers to do. You give me a headache.:rolleyes:

One thing I can't stand is how record label owners must appear in all their artist's videos. Here is a list of people who exemplify that:

1. P. Diddy

2. Jermaine Dupri

3. Irv Gotti

4. Damon Dash (although I did like his stupid dancing at first)

The video is not about you so stay out! I mean you don't see Clive Davis all up in Alicia Keys videos!

Ooh, Onyx is GOOOOOOD for hollerin in a song... I can't STAND it!!! :mad:

Girl, Sean BEEN all up in the videos from day one. I have always been annoyed by that mess.

And another thing (remember Mary Lou Retton (sp)? lol)... Hidden tracks on CD's. Don't get me wrong, I like a bonus cut as much as the next person. Jill, I love you girl, I do, but the end of that first CD... DON'T DO THAT NO MORE!!! Why have track 44? That mess got on my NERVES, because when you shuffle the CD, you end up with some of those bogus tracks (20-43). Mess gets on my nerves.

Also, inside the CD cover... if a song is sampled, don't just tell us who wrote the song. Tell us what song the hook comes from. What if we can't think of it?? Tellin' us who wrote it won't do us a bit of good.

:mad: :mad: Yeah a hidden track is one thing but she has 14 tracks X 5 seconds each of my life gone forever. 44 must be her favorite number. Next time call the song 44 but do not do that isht again.

Pet Peeves
 

Videos-- All that scattered azz and boobies. My husband likes it, but I ain't gotta look at it.

Also, I am so tired of looking at the jeans pulled down to these rappers knees. PULL YOUR DAMN PANTS UP!! I DO NOT WANNA SEE YOUR DRAWS....

Music Peeve
 

My music pet peeve is when performers (esp. rappers) have to tell everyone what label they are from. I could care less if you are from Def Jam, Murder Inc., Bad Boy, etc. You don't hear Alicia Keys sing "This cut is from the J Records crew." or Lauryn Hill singing about "Columbia Records in the house, make some noise!" If I want to know what label you are from, I will look on your CD or wait for the credits on your video to show!!

MY music video pet peeves are:

1. Everyone TRYING to sport BRAIDS. What ever happened to a regular, clean-cut fade?

2. Dre (from OUTKAST) and his ABSOLUTELY STUPID outfits. Some of those get-ups make me kinda wonder about him.

3. Lil' Bow Wow (with is GROWN a**). Why does he have those grown women in his video? I don't care HOW much money he makes, he's STILL a KID!

4. Oh yeah, I can't stand those girls in the videos with all their stuff hanging out either. I thought that the world was WAY past that by now. But I guess not, right?

Let me sit back and think of a few more....

I, too, hate interludes...I would rather have a 10 song album with no interludes than a 17 track piece of litter with only half of them songs.

Everybody and their mother being featured on every song. Hello, can we get either a group effort or a solo one?

When artists adlib more than they sing actual verses. Sometimes this is cool, like Jag's "Self Love," but when it is mindless droning over the never-ending chorus for like 3 minutes to end the song, it is a bit much.

I hate when artists come on the beginning of the song and talk. "Yo, check this out, feel me, I'm about to hip y'all, I'm saying though, this is a true story, where my dawgs at, no doubt, one time, y'all ready? Verse one..." JUST GO!

There must be more, I am sure I will be back...

Re: Pet Peeves
 

If those rappers only knew the origin of the pants hanging down, most of them would stop.

Re: Re: Pet Peeves
 

Perhaps not. Quite a few of them have already been there (or are on the way there).

What's irritating me so is...

these new female artists/groups who still can't sing. Their appearance and performance skills are making them, not their vocals. There are only a few REAL talented female singers out there.

the little teeny bopper groups are taking over. I like older performers.

JA RULE - :mad: - who told his a** that he can sing. Now the first two songs he did that mixed Rap and R&B were cool because it was something different but D***:mad: he mad a whole album!

ASHANTI - who the h*** told her she was the princess of R&B - I guess JA RULE huh?:mad:

PUFFY/JA RULE/JERMAINE DUPRI - If either one of them mentions their record label one more time and if I see either one of them in another video :mad: I swear.....

AWARD SHOWS - Why in the h*** did it take India Arie so long to get a d*** award?:confused:

P. Ditty- And his remix of a remix of a remix (I Need a Girl Part 1, 2, and 3) I mean get over it.

Ashanti and her little wiggle shake, grab my hair dance.

New artist Khia her video is so stank, she need to have somebody show her how to wear a bra.

I can go on and on!

Toni Braxton's newest CD is NOTHING like her debut CD and sophomore effort. Those 2 CDs were the bomb.

Speaking of her CD, finally listened to it last night and quite frankly, I was soooooooo unimpressed. It was ho hum. Toni also is on the newest kick of an R&B singer having a rapper rap on her song. It works for some songs NOT ALL. Toni Braxton in my eyes is a high caliber music act along the lines of Anita Baker and Patti LaBelle, but the aforementioned songs suck. I need her to go back to Babyface and sad ballads.

Anyway I hope that Patti, Anita, The Temptations, etc. do not follow this new "trend." To insure that they do not, let me e-mail them.

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From: CT4@SpeakingHerMind.com
To: PattiLaBelle@GeechiGeechiYaYa.com
CC: AnitaBaker@CaughtUpInTheRapture.com, TheTemptations@AintTooProudToBeg.com, LutherVandross@IfThisWorldWereMine.com

Subject: Rappers Singing With You

Greetings Pioneers of the R&B Industry!! I just wanted to send you an e-mail asking you please do not get caught up in the R&B artist featuring a rapper on a single madness. Contrary to popular, uninformed belief it does not always make a hit record.

I never want to hear Patti singing "You Are My Friend" like this:

**musical background*
You aaaare my friend
I never knew it til now
My friend
My friend
You are my friend
You might not say a word. .. .

NELLY: YEAH you are my friend when it gets HOT IN HERRRRE and I need a pur of Air Force Ones while I am out E I E I Oing. . .

Patti if you EVER EVER EVER do anything like the above, I might have to revoke your CLASS ACT award.

Also before I go let me offer another piece of free advice: Just say no to Rodney Jerkins. He means well and he has some talent but that mofo should stop saying Darkchild and having those computerized beats that sound like they belong on Star Wars' Trek in the 2001 Odyssey.

Oh and on your next CD, can I have a shout out? :p

I can't stand when a CD has 12 track on it! Let alone that you can pay the same price for a CD that has 20 tracks on it (of course, this includes those damned interludes). But the DISGUSTING part about it is when 6 of those 12 tracks are the real songs and the other six are remixes to the songs.

For example, even though it is a double CD, that Whitney greatest hits CD that came out a few years back had hits on the first disc, but the second had the Motown remix, the Smitty Smith Crazy Mix, the DJ Psycho Sick Mix, the Crackhead Crunk remix, etc. Keep that isht to yourself! :mad:

Ok...Here It Go!
 

I have been seeing some things lately that have really got on my nerves as far as the music industry goes. Wrote a list about....wanna hear it, here it go (member dude on In Living Color??..heehee)

1. EVERYTHING THAT HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH JA RULE
AND ASHANTI!! :mad: enough is enough..damn...go
home!
2. P Diddy puttin all those WOMEN in them lil boyz video, they aint
have no grown women in their video till then.
3. HALF NAKED WOMEN ON THESE VIDEOS..and not enough half
naked men.....heehee;)
4. The lack of real talent in the singers of today
5. When I am burning a CD and when I finish it....half the songs
have that ANNOYING DJ in the beginning..giving shout outs
:mad:
6. When J-Lo and P Diddy kept having conversations about their
relationship through their songs. He did one then she did
one..back and forth..stop!
7. The number of young No Limit rappers with "lil" in their
names......that is soooo over.
8. I am mad that No Limit, Baby, Lil Wayne, and Manie Fresh are
some of the UGLIEST guys on earth.
9. Do they know that by bringing TQ in there.....he makes them
look uglier than they are..and that's NOT good at all
10. Where are the singers?? Where are Maxwell, Lauryn Hill,
De'Angelo, Mint Condition, COME BACK SOON!!!!
11. Why is EVERY video have the same concept?? Is Missy the
only one that can be original?? seems that way....
12. OH YEAH...DID I MENTION...EVERYTHING THAT HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH JA RULE AND ASHANTI:mad: