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Shut Up, Dude: This Week’s Best Comments

Shut Up, Dude: This Week's Best Comments

This week Halsey made her The Number Ones debut and today she releases the new album The Great Impersonator.

Can you identify all the impersonations she did during its rollout...

For extra credit – can you name the great impersonator at this Indian restaurant the other day?

THIS WEEK'S 10 HIGHEST RATED COMMENTS

#10 
dutchg8r
Score: 20 | Oct 21st

Grrrr.... this song touches on one of THE most annoyingly aggravating and grating musical 'styles' for me - the "Heavy Handed Gloved Thanos Banging Out the Chorus Melody on Synths in a Truly Remidial, Neanderthal Way Style". I HATE that shit. It's a brat sibling doing the Repeat Game and the whole "I'm not touching you" shtick in the family car on any car ride. Clang-clang-clang-clang-clang-clang-clang..... It's basically saying "we think listeners are soooo dumb they won't understand what a hook is unless we piledrive it into their head". Fuckers. 🤬

I really don't know how they pulled off "Something Just Like This", because I really like that song. I like the buildup, and it really suits Chris Martin's voice, which I'm normally not fond of.

But "Closer" is shit. And it was #1 for 3 friggin months. That was a lonnnng stretch of constant channel changing for me back then. Ugh And now the stupid clang-clang-bang infantile beat is lingering in my head. Fuckers.

1/10

Posted in: The Number Ones: The Chainsmokers' "Closer" (Feat. Halsey)
#9 
Callie Petch
Score: 21 | Oct 23rd

Maybe Obama shouldn't be up there saying "he looks calm and ready to drop bombs."

Posted in: Barack Obama Raps "Lose Yourself" After Introduction By Eminem At Kamala Harris Rally
#8 
you beautiful bastard.
Score: 21 | Oct 20th

“Music’s Highest Honor"

Posted in: Everything That Happened At The 2024 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony
#7 
thepiratepenguin
Score: 23 | Oct 18th

Look, the canceled tour story was fun for a few laughs and cheap shots, but ultimately the Black Keys were just the unlucky poster child for a bunch of canceled tours with pricing miscalculations. I ended up feeling bad for them.

This, however? Absolutely deserving of ridicule.

Posted in: The Black Keys Announce "America Loves Crypto" Concert
#6 
buzzards and dreadful crows
Score: 25 | Oct 18th

"It appears to be an event geared around getting out the vote for cryptocurrency-friendly candidates? (UPDATE: I’m told the crypto movement is putting in work to unseat Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown, a crypto critic, so this event might actually help deliver the Senate to the Republicans?)"

Yes, this is what crypo bros are all about lately. See Fairshake or the Stand With Crypto PAC, for example. The part of America that loves crypto never had any morals to begin with, so it shouldn't be at all surprising that they'd rather see fascists elected than have their "business" (more) regulated.

Posted in: The Black Keys Announce "America Loves Crypto" Concert
#5 
horserenoir
Score: 26 | Oct 21st

That's a pretty small amount of locations, but I guess it's hard to find venues when half of your acts aren't allowed to be near schools and playgrounds.

Posted in: Vans Warped Tour Announces 2025 Return, Falling In Reverse Singer Says “Get Ready To Be Upset”
#4 
you beautiful bastard.
Score: 29 | Oct 18th

we live in the greatest age for scammers since the '30s

Posted in: The Black Keys Announce "America Loves Crypto" Concert
#3 
cschl
Score: 30 | Oct 23rd

YBB: finally, I can talk about pre-norman conquest kings

Posted in: Official When We Were Young Merch Misspells Eight Band Names
#2 
cschl
Score: 36 | Oct 18th

“Comments are turned off on the band’s Instagram post announcing this gig.”

I’ll bet!

Posted in: The Black Keys Announce "America Loves Crypto" Concert
#1 
Yossarian
Score: 50 | Oct 21st

Radiohead is following their Muse? I thought it was usually the other way around...

Posted in: Thom Yorke Loves The Smile, Doesn't Care If You Want A Radiohead Reunion

THIS WEEK'S EDITOR-IN-CHIEF'S CHOICE

Turd on the Run
Oct 24th

Am I understanding this correctly? Lindsey was mean to Harry Styles and then Stevie was visited by the ghosts of her parents who told her to dump Lindsey from the band so she did?

Posted in: Stevie Nicks Explains Firing Lindsey Buckingham From Fleetwood Mac

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