… is what millions of preteens and teenyboppers are asking themselves as the poor Backstreet Boys seem to be having some problems according to Salon.
As far as I can tell as an innocent bystander, boybands (unlike the Moffats) are still all that and a bag of chips among hip young people and I know that genres don’t just vanish, but, could this indicate the beginning of the end of the boyband era? Or are the Backstreet boys getting too old and ugly?
all that and a bag of chips…
“backstreet boys…betcha can’t beat just one”
beginning of the end of the boyband era? ….
Oh. Please God. Make it so. Make it so.
Bit off topic but, where the fuck has Dorrell been?
Rumor has it that he lives in a posh neighborhood on the waterfront and writes poetry in cafes all day. Sounds believable to me.
Let him know how much you miss his posts.
when will the writers at aov start a boy band?
c’mon, you already have a catchy acronym, what more do you need?
rip backdoor boys…i will miss you not.
You didn’t know that Rob and I are in a band called MJF (Michael J. Fox)?
We are huge in Japan and an Atlantic top-50 CEO plays drums for us.
Maybe FWP will return to the limelight.
Steve speaks the truth.
Our last hit single “When I come around, MJF Cover” went quintuple platinum, I still get crates of self-addressed stamped Japanese underthings to sign and send back to the masses.
Well, Vince, funny you should mention FWP. MC Cinephile is working on a solo project as we speak.
Here’s a sample from his follow-up to “Cinephilennium”:
But now I’m all grown up and my tastes are more discernin’,
I like thought provoking films like Mississippi Burnin’
Starring Willem Dafoe and old Gene Hackman.
It’s kind of like X-Mennot with mutants but with black men.
Peace out.
Word to your mother!
what the hell are you doing, cinephile?
who do you think you are? ice cube??
you can try and break up fwp with your little solo projects, if you want. but you’ll never seperate the dynamic duo of dj scooby dawg and coolbreeze.
we never liked you anyway.
The Cinephile was stifled in FWP, Coolbreeze.
We hadn’t done a song since you lost my masterpiece, “Tarantino.” You and Scooby Dawg were doing stuff without the group, so why not the Cinephile?
Don’t you even act like you don’t know what I’m talking about either. Doing all your “rap songs” for everyone to hear.
It’s time for the Cinephile to get his. Attention must be paid.
So fuck you LL Coolbreeze.
so you goin’ out like that, huh?
aight then. you’re out of the band!
let the dis songs begin.
Are you kicking me out?
Not a chance, pal. I quit!!!
Y’all have stupid names anyway. Ladies never loved Coolbreeze and Scooby Dawg is an MC, not a DJ.
This is all Vince’s fucking fault. He is to FWP as Yoko was to The Stones.
Me and Jeff are getting married, we having a bed-in for gangster violence.
Bitch.
Wait a minute, the stones?
That’s what I thought Vince, but, I elected to sidestep the issue because I assumed it was a silly inside joke that I wouldn’t understand until I turn 19.
the barenaked ladies should write a song about vince.
You will now listen to:
Clem Snide – Loneliness Finds Her Own Way
Wire – 12XU
X-Ray Spex – Warrior in Woolworths
Sage Francis – Mullet
Hypertrophy – Pull Over (Orbital Remix)
I am so sick of your shit Stephan.
Play with fire and you get burned.
And to continue with Dorrell’s post:
Pedro the Lion – Simple Economics
Ben Folds Five – Julianne
Screeching Weasel – Cool Club
James Brown – For goodness sakes, just look at those cakes
Loverboy – Working for the weekend.
Pedro the Lion rocks… I was listening to “Big Trucks” on my way to work this morning… Just sayin is all..
And is there a better email address than, “jeffiweff@hotmail.com” cause if there is I’d be surprised.
My first two songs are done.
The first is an instrumental called “Cinetro”. The second is called “Cinephile #1”. I don’t have anywhere to put them, though, so none of y’all can hear them.
Next up is a Coolbreeze/Scooby Dawg dis song and a cover of the rap song that the kid does in Magnolia.
And no, there is no better e-mail address than jeffiweff@hotmail.com. That’s why I have it.
What I meant to say, of course, is “y’all can’t hear them.” The songs.
But then again, it was fine the first time around. The sentence.
my next song will be called “jeff is a bitch”
“jeff is a bitch” has been completed in all it’s sloppy punk rock glory.
it is currently awaiting approval from mp3.com before it is made available to the public on the FWP human ear portal.
sneak preview of “jeff is a bitch”: hi fi | lo fi.
those links may not work when the song gets approved, so check it now.
Some kid tryed to ambush nsync and kill them all because they “get all the chicks” but his mom found the drawing he made showing how he was going to do it and turned her own kid in to the police… stupid mother…
Can’t talk now. Off to see Radiohead. Suckers.
Kent, I expect a full review (on your own website, how ’bout).
Also, if it’s not too late, might I suggest screaming “Creep! Creep!”. It would remind Radiohead of the old days and you’d all have a good laugh.
actually, kent, if you really want to have fun, yell “i’m a stupid dummy and my name is kent.”
that’s right. you’re next in my list of people to write dis songs about.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
So last night at about 1AM Atlantic Time the phone rings at AOV’s HindQuarters.
I answer, slighlty ill and delirious (more on that later). Kent (KJB) yells into his cellphone: “I’m at the radiohead concert!”
Sure enough, I could hear Thom warbling in the background. Very cute Kent.
I’ll tell you what’s cute:
“All I want to do is crawl into a big soft bed with lots of fluffy blankets, have sex with Chasey Lane, spoon, then nap the afternoon away.”
Guess who.
And I wanted to say that I feel exactly the same way.
And Radiohead was very mellow. It is, however, amazing how much Matthew Dorrell (the so-called poet who, when he heard of my good fortune to be attending the show, sent me a note saying, “fuck you fucker”, man, is that nice?) could pass for Thom Yorke if they were both trimming their hair in the same fashion. (On a related note: I also wanted to posit that if you put Steven Garrity, Ed from Northern Exp. and David Usher (Moistfrontman) in a police line-up you’d confuse some folks).
I am supposed to be reviewing the Radiohead show for a local paper for los dollaros, so I’ll wait rather than piss on a graveyard. But quickly.
They played almost all of OK Computer, a few from The Bends and much of the new album. I didn’t hear much from Pablo, Honey and they played most of Kid A. Their set was over two hours and located in the sunshine and moonlight of the UBC football stadium, Thunderbird Staium (with a beer garden staffed by the football team, “two beers please” was never so hard to get across). I was not sober.
As an aside, Steve Nash is not only a fine Vancouverite, Dallas Maverick and Olympian, he likes Radiohead, beer and sharing.
Tangentially, I would be happy to have coolbreeze write a “dis” song about me. I have never had a song written about me by someone who could not sing, write or play an instrument before, ought to be interesting (how’s that for baiting you little fucker?).
Peace out y’all.
PS–And the new aioku is beautiful by the way (Tastes like Lecky).
PSS-P/S remove this subtitle: “Lately, the only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distaste for manual labour.”
Thank you.
And it was not my cellphone. I am the only Vancouverite to not have one, altho I didn’t notice Nash’s. I am far too cool for that; it was my mommy’s.
“And I wanted to say that I feel exactly the same way.”
Soon you can. VincentLand.com is currently on the move to a CGI platform, including a PHP based forum oddly familiar to the one we’re posting on now.
Go tell your parents.
And no it’s not stealing.
I’ll bet you thought the Cinephile would never finish his dis song about Windom Earle. Well, were you ever wrong. Download it now before it goes away.
on the topic of rob’s original post, I’ve been under the weather and in the care of my good family. As a result, I’ve been watching a lot of cable TV.
I’ve gained, from this vantage point, an insight on the music industry. N*Sync, quintisetial boy-band, has a new song out called Pop. Before I continue, I have to point out that I find mocking of such boy-bands to be generally lame and unnecessary.
Nothing annouces the downfall of a pop-culture movement like rapping about how it’s not going to happen. The New Kids on the Block did it, and now N*Sync is doing it. The parallel is fantastic
Don’t be fooled though. It will be back. And don’t waste your time shitting on it.