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This morning I found this:

 

Alan McGee Gives Coldplay, Paul McCartney, Mika and The Brits A Good Kicking

 

The former Creation Records boss believes that The Brits should be axed altogether, Macca should retire and he'd rather eat someone else's earwax than listen to Coldplay.

 

Casting his eye over the nominees for this year's Brit Awards, he blasted to the Daily Record: ”They should get rid of the Brits and start again with 20 music journalists who actually care about music.

“If this is what the British music industry has to offer, we should close down the recording studios now because it is so sad. It has never been worse apart from the 1950s but at least then they had Elvis.”

 

Asked for his thoughts about the nomination for Coldplay's 'A Rush Of Blood To The Head' in the Best Album of the Past 30 Years category, McGee moaned: “Coldplay are a dilution of a dilution of a dilution. Chris Martin makes me want to eat someone else’s earwax rather than listen to his record.”

 

Continuing his rant, he said of Sir Paul McCartney: “John Lennon is probably firing bullets from another dimension as we speak. Just give in Paul. Can’t he and people like him retire.

 

“Music should be like football. Once you turn 40 you should become a manager or get lost.”

 

However, he did reserve some kind words for some Brit nominees, adding: “Calvin (Harris) is cool and I love Muse.. I think Robbie Williams latest stuff is quality pop music, though it is not my thing. He makes good pop.

 

“Lily Allen is a good pop star. But Pixie Lott, I mean, for God’s sake. Mika should have been shot at birth, and while we’re at it, we should shoot JLS.”

 

 

source:http://www.gigwise.com/news/54332/Alan-McGee-Gives-Coldplay-Paul-McCartney-Mika-and-The-Brits-A-Good-Kicking

 

 

 

I don't know WHO is this guy but sucks a lot!!

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I commented, hope it gets posted.

 

If you are I music reviewer you are allowed to have your say. If you don't like something it's okay to tell, but: don't aime at people personally. It is a really stupid thing to say smt like someone should have been shot! :thumbdown: Bah, I am really disgusted by this guy, and that doesn't happen a lot!

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this is terrible but not nearly as bad as the article about how he should be tied to a furnace and beat to death since that didn't happen when he was a baby!

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auch...!

 

I don't remember that one. (perhaps banned it from my brain...:wink2:).

 

oh it's a winner...

 

 

http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/hq/music-step-into-another-world-1882759.html

 

 

Shamelessly indulging his inner child, Mika continues to paint over our economic gloom with his brand of pop, writes Eamon Carr

 

Mika was born michael holbrook Penniman in Beirut in 1983. That would have been a few years before Belfast teacher Brian Keenan was the taken hostage by Islamic militants and held captive in darkness for almost five years. Mika's parents took their infant son to Paris. While I'd never condone chaining someone to a radiator and beating them with a lead pipe, I marvel at Mika's good fortune. Anyone familiar with the singer's camp 1970s ham might rue the caprices of fate.

 

The 26-year-old clearly has Pied Piper fantasies. That's when he's not behind the bike shed, shoving a hand down his pants and ogling photos of Freddie Mercury.

 

2007 was Mika's year. He landed on planet pop with pantomime ferocity. In a blizzard of falsetto and outrageous arrangements, a number-one single, Grace Kelly, and a splendiferous debut album, Life In Cartoon Motion, announced him as a potential superstar, pyjama-party playmate for Elton John and The Scissor Sisters. The speed of his ascent on the pop tree polarised opinion. It seemed the bigger Mike became, the more some people grumbled. One naysayer claimed that an inane Mika song reminded him of Eurovision and conjured up an image of Terry Wogan commenting, "Where did the Belgians find this big eejit?"

 

But can the six million punters who bought his debut album, and the committees who showered him with music awards, be wrong? Is Mika's over-egged pop goo evil? Or, like sprouts, does it just taste vile?

 

If he has a manifesto, it's probably to celebrate pop music. This, he feels, is reason enough to release a promotional video for We Are Golden of himself prancing around a multi-coloured bedroom and posing in front of the mirror, in boots and underpants, like a six-year-old. See him in action and you wonder if perhaps he's another covert creation of Sacha Baron Cohen.

 

But who ever said pop music should act its age? Surely, Mika is allowed to sing about "teenage dreams" in a voice that recalls an impassioned Tori Amos as the choir of brats from the Pink Floyd's The Wall chant along?

 

This album is so audacious it makes Rufus Wainwright seem like a dreary denimed pub rocker. There are hooks ("Blame it on the girls. Blame it on the boys...") that sound sensationally meaningless wrapped in clattering dynamics. There are confidences ("I hate days like this...") that shame the Bee Gees as one-dimensional tunesmiths.

 

With the western world teetering on the edge of an economic abyss, Mika spreads sunshine like margarine by chanting We Are Golden. What a clever ruse.

 

He teams up with Imogen Heap to write and perform By The Time, a nursery rhyme that escaped the notice of Paul McCartney in his Mary Had A Little Lamb phase.

 

Like a deranged fairytale, The Boy Who Knew Too Much has a conceptual undertow. The man-child in his underpants ponders his place in the universe. But Mika knows no fear. He even dispenses wisdom. "You take a pill, wonder if it will fix you," he trills on Blue Eyes. "Then wonder why sorrow has never left you."

 

Listening to the vocal acrobatics on Good Gone Girl, surely the next single, it's easy to stand in awe of the skyscraper range of the man's madcap musical glitterball.

 

In a world where colour clash can become the new black, Mika is becoming as iconic as a pampered chihuahua. Unfortunately for him, though, not every track on this album has single potential. One Foot Boy is eminently forgettable. And the faux operatic swoon of Toy Boy clocks in as simply odious. "She's the meanest hag that has ever been/Pulled out my insides with an old safety pin...", he cackles like a child about to be cooked in the wicked witch's oven.

 

Radiator, anyone? * * *

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i read that and then wanted to beat that man with a pipe or just give mika the biggest hug i could ever give someone. preferably both!

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Anyway he is disgusting, how can you say something like that about any person, doesn't matter if he is famous or not, and he put the icing in the cake talking like that about Paul McCartney :furious:, Pop music would be nothig without him and The Beatles, I'm so ashamed he's Glaswegian!!!!

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Anyway he is disgusting, how can you say something like that about any person, doesn't matter if he is famous or not, and he put the icing in the cake talking like that about Paul McCartney :furious:, Pop music would be nothig without him and The Beatles, I'm so ashamed he's Glaswegian!!!!

 

I think this Alan-guy feels though, talking like that.

Like: "See what I dare?!"

miserable gat.....:sneaky2:

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OMG:shocked:

Some people have a way with words! They seem to just come flooding out of his pen/keyboard....

 

 

I have one thing to say: I love love sprouts!:mf_lustslow:

 

Tnx Whales for giving the link!

 

 

lol oh i know! that guy started and just couldn't stop!

 

you're welcome!

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That whole article is just plain evil. I know he's allowed to have his own opinion and everything, and Mika is obviously not everybody's cup of tea, but to go as far as to wish death upon others?

 

I mean, I hate Miley Cyrus' music but still, I would never wish that she'd been shot at birth.

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This morning I found this:

 

Alan McGee Gives Coldplay, Paul McCartney, Mika and The Brits A Good Kicking

 

The former Creation Records boss believes that The Brits should be axed altogether, Macca should retire and he'd rather eat someone else's earwax than listen to Coldplay.

 

Casting his eye over the nominees for this year's Brit Awards, he blasted to the Daily Record: ”They should get rid of the Brits and start again with 20 music journalists who actually care about music.

“If this is what the British music industry has to offer, we should close down the recording studios now because it is so sad. It has never been worse apart from the 1950s but at least then they had Elvis.”

 

Asked for his thoughts about the nomination for Coldplay's 'A Rush Of Blood To The Head' in the Best Album of the Past 30 Years category, McGee moaned: “Coldplay are a dilution of a dilution of a dilution. Chris Martin makes me want to eat someone else’s earwax rather than listen to his record.”

 

Continuing his rant, he said of Sir Paul McCartney: “John Lennon is probably firing bullets from another dimension as we speak. Just give in Paul. Can’t he and people like him retire.

 

“Music should be like football. Once you turn 40 you should become a manager or get lost.”

 

However, he did reserve some kind words for some Brit nominees, adding: “Calvin (Harris) is cool and I love Muse.. I think Robbie Williams latest stuff is quality pop music, though it is not my thing. He makes good pop.

 

“Lily Allen is a good pop star. But Pixie Lott, I mean, for God’s sake. Mika should have been shot at birth, and while we’re at it, we should shoot JLS.”

 

 

source:http://www.gigwise.com/news/54332/Alan-McGee-Gives-Coldplay-Paul-McCartney-Mika-and-The-Brits-A-Good-Kicking

 

 

 

I don't know WHO is this guy but sucks a lot!!

i agree with most of it (but for mika of course....) :teehee:

 

and i also don't know who he is :naughty:

 

 

 

Well it's only his opinion, and to be honest, I do agree with some of them as well. Obv not the Mika one.

Sometimes peoples' reactions on here make me smile.

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Alan McGee was founder of Creation Records (Oasis' label). Sadly he is under the impression that he knows everything about everything in terms of music...

 

He should have locked Oasis in his basement after their first 2 albums so that they can't escape and we won't hear about them again.

Then they would have been remembered for their good music (that copied the Beatles btw). :cool:

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Anyway he is disgusting, how can you say something like that about any person, doesn't matter if he is famous or not, and he put the icing in the cake talking like that about Paul McCartney :furious:, Pop music would be nothig without him and The Beatles, I'm so ashamed he's Glaswegian!!!!

 

I agree with you. He is disgusting!

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The thing that I find frustrating is that someone so f*cking ignorant can still make a living doing what he does.

 

What's his goal? Does he lack any technical reasons or even well-articulated subjective reasons to criticize Mika, so instead he stoops random vicious attacks of no substance? Or does he think he's being funny? :dunno:

 

Seriously, if you're in the music business, you should have more to say when critiquing an artist than vague references to their age, or in the case of Mika and JLS, nothing at all.

 

Instead of shutting down the Brits, how about we get rid of ignorant dinosaurs with their heads up their arses? :aah:

 

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