http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/give-up/Content?oid=2398242 Comments On: Give Up by Eric Grandy en-us Copyright 2013 Portland Mercury. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Portland Mercury readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Portland Mercury. webmaster@portlandmercury.com (Portland Mercury Webmaster) Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by hihihihihi]]> Thu, 06 May 2010 17:49:18 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by bp baggins]]> Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:11:25 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by ado]]> Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:04:31 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Mr. Freedom]]> Mon, 05 Apr 2010 22:30:57 -0700 Portland Mercury
I am not a music snob. Owl City is shit and this review is dead on. The only good that can come out of this is if it wakes Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello up enough to make a new Postal Service record to show everyone how awful Owl City is.
Posted by BlackedOut]]> Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:44:20 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by scout374269]]> Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:01:04 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by scout374269]]> Sat, 03 Apr 2010 15:59:59 -0700 Portland Mercury
proof:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9woqyxU-LlA
Posted by tudikas wayne hunnicutt]]> Sat, 03 Apr 2010 13:33:23 -0700 Portland Mercury
While it may not be the most original music in the world, it's still good music. Yeah, it was made with a synthesizer, in a basement, by one person. I didn't even read the whole review, I read the 'wwhhiiiiiinnneee!!!' line at the beginning of each paragraph, scanned through the rest of the whhhhhaaaaaa!, and I still didn't see anything in here of any worth other than you being upset that one very successful artist sounds like another successful artist. What it sounds like the most is... and I hate to say it.... jealousy. Yeah, jealous that it wasn't you making crap music on what is basically a toy, and tittilating millions with it.


Music snobs have no place reviewing music, because they don't understand music. They just understand that a lot of people like something, and those people must be stupid if they disagree with you since it's just not your thing. Believe it or not, just because something isn't 'your thing' doesn't mean it's bad music. If you hate rap, you can't say that all rap is bad, you simply don't have the capacity to appreciate it (even though most rap anymore is mostly samples of other songs). And if you're just upset that it's like another artist, then you should probably quit your job (is this a job?), because almost EVERYTHING is a rip off of something else anymore, even if someone isn't trying. As far as sound goes, the Postal Service sound would have been discovered and overplayed at some point by someone else. You can go back to tunelessly strumming your guitar, while reciting the emo poetry in your moleskine journal down on Hawthorne.

I'm not a huge fan, but damn, have some objectivity.
Posted by mollymaverick]]> Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:42:50 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Mr. Freedom]]> Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:59:49 -0700 Portland Mercury BTW, you might want to look up what mixed metaphors actually means.
Posted by Mr. Freedom]]> Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:45:44 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by fuck you smile bitch]]> Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:31:41 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Blanders]]> Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:46:11 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by ssullivan]]> Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:25:57 -0700 Portland Mercury
The line "why do i tire of counting sheep, while I'm too tired to fall asleep" is also particularly awful
Posted by cbatson]]> Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:24:52 -0700 Portland Mercury