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The Norwegian Rebecca Black

post #1 of 18
6/6/11 at 6:03am
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My poor ears...

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post #2 of 18
6/6/11 at 7:29am
Ugh. Has Europop not budged an inch in the last 20 years? This sounds like Real McCoy with half the talent and half the IQ. For people who are our putative superiors in every conceivable sense, Scandanavians sure make shitty pop music. If this is what I heard all day, I could very well see myself being driven to satanic death metal as well.
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post #3 of 18
6/6/11 at 9:29am
"I'm a little pretty girl trapped in a grown-up's body."

This sentence actually describes me pretty accurately.
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post #4 of 18
6/6/11 at 10:00am
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post #5 of 18
6/6/11 at 10:00am
why do the nordics have have such good command of English?

I've been in hospitals/lecture halls all over the world and there's always always a student/lecturer who's from norway/finland/iceland/ect and they have perfect comprehension of english.

Plus their comprehension of english is almost clinical to the point where it seems more efficient than native english speakers.
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post #6 of 18
6/6/11 at 10:00am
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Originally Posted by Don Carlos View Post
"I'm a little pretty girl trapped in a grown-up's body."

This sentence actually describes me pretty accurately.

It describes Kwilk pretty accurately too. Imagine how disappointed his pretty little girl must be.

What's this line-- "When I'm sixty-number, when I am dead, mrfffhrrrnrrgghhhhurr put on make up instead"? It's almost as if the "rapper" doesn't understand what she's saying either and slurs the words in the exact same way.
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post #7 of 18
6/6/11 at 10:02am
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This sounds like Real McCoy with half the talent and half the IQ.

Real McCoy was the shit back in the day. I want to be able to talk to women like that guy sings.
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post #8 of 18
6/6/11 at 10:09am
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Real McCoy was the shit back in the day. I want to be able to talk to women like that guy sings.
You'll still find "Another Night" in most karoke songbooks. It's a great duet when you don't want to do "Islands In The Stream".
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post #9 of 18
6/6/11 at 10:12am
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why do the nordics have have such good command of English?

Its taught in their public school systems? Euro TV programming has lots of English in it, much like American TV will have lots of Spanish on it in the coming decades. Regardless of these facts, the grammar is similar between Nordic languages and English (more so than French & English, for instance).
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post #10 of 18
6/6/11 at 10:21am
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why do the nordics have have such good command of English?

I think this is actually true of many Northern European countries. I was in The Netherlands once and while I was on a bus tour I was amazed that the guy giving the tour was able to narrate in four different languages. During one of our stops I was talking to him about it and he explained it very simply. He said that if you only spoke Dutch you can only talk with about 10MM other people. If you speak Dutch and English you can talk with 1B people.
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post #11 of 18
6/6/11 at 10:28am
This is an awful, awful song.
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post #12 of 18
6/6/11 at 10:35am
Some of the musical elements remind me of
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post #13 of 18
6/6/11 at 12:00pm
Horrible!
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post #14 of 18
6/6/11 at 1:45pm
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You always know what you're in for when you hear the wooshy synth chords playing during the song intro.
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post #15 of 18
6/6/11 at 1:49pm
We could dedicate this whole thread just to discussing the chintzyness of the video. To recreate a "crowd" of fans gathered for their arrival, they squished eight people together against a barricade. They couldn't find more than eight people who'd want to be an extra in a music video? Edit: I'd bet dollars to donuts that the old woman waving at her is her mom.
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