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#191 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2023 Tour Dates » 117 weeks ago
Some publicity would definitely help. It's kind of wild that Axl hasn't done a US chat show like Kimmel since 2012, and the last sit-down interview he had was in 2016 with some guy who basically lucked out backstage when he was supposed to be interviewing Duff on his own, IIRC.
Slash and Duff have been restricted to promoting their own solo material and dancing around GN'R, I think the only member of the band who's done interviews with high-profile outlets is Melissa with Cosmo and Rolling Stone.
It's bonkers. Get Axl to sit down with a couple of friendly journalists from Rolling Stone or GQ or whatever, and do a round of sympathetic talk shows; Kimmel would crawl over broken glass for him, I'm sure.
#192 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 118 weeks ago
Pearl. Mia Goth should've got all the awards for that monologue.
#193 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2023 Tour Dates » 119 weeks ago
Like who even cares anymore how it looks? We're old men, they are multimillionaires? Pop culture has moved on without them and us. What the fuck is there to lose at this stage.
I just want them to have some fun in the studio rather than just tinkering with 20-year-old demos. It baffles me that – as far as we can tell – they haven't got together in a studio to jam out some new tracks.
#194 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2023 Tour Dates » 119 weeks ago
Carrie is really pushing him to catch up and she almost succeeds in parts lmao...wasn't bad actually
It's an interesting reminder that Axl can stretch into the traditionally-female vocal range; many of the best performances of GN'R songs have been by singers like Fergie, Nicole Scherzinger, Carrie Underwood etc, because they can actually hit the notes, where performers like Scott Weiland had to stick to the baritone songs like Brownstone and It's So Easy (and fudge the outro to the latter with the megaphone).
#195 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2023 Tour Dates » 119 weeks ago
Imagine if every song on a GN'R album was written by somebody not in the band?
I mean... that is the case for multiple GN'R songs.
Your prejudice against pop acts is showing. I don't even particularly like pop, but I recognise that pop songwriters are every bit as skilled as rock ones, they just work in a different genre.
And the cult of the songwriter-as-artist being venerated over the performer who sings a song written by someone else doesn't have any noble origin – it is a direct result of McCartney and Lennon working out that they got twice as much money on a song for which they had a songwriting credit.
#196 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2023 Tour Dates » 119 weeks ago
Artists write their own songs. Lady Gaga sings, does appeals for Hillary Clinton and shows off her ass.
Stefani Germanotta literally started her career as a songwriter for pop acts before she came up with the Lady Gaga persona. A casual glance at the ASCAP registry shows dozens of songwriting credits under her name.
"In addition to writing all the tracks on her album, GaGa has previously written for Fergie, the Pussycat Dolls, Britney Spears and New Kids on the Block."
#197 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2023 Tour Dates » 119 weeks ago
Yeah, I don’t really liken Metallica playing with Gaga, to Pantera playing with Britney.
Sure, they’re both pop singers, but Gaga is every bit an artist in what she does. And really, she got up and added backing vocals to a Metallica song. It wasn’t as though they busted into Poker Face or something…
Yeah, it's actually more like "the 15-year-old metalheads sneering at the glee club drama geek while mistaking her for the popular girls..."
#198 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2023 Tour Dates » 119 weeks ago
The whole "Metallica shouldn't play with Lady Gaga" nonsense is tiresome playground shit. Like 15-year-old metalhead kids lurking in the corner of the cafeteria sneering at the popular girls. Grow the fuck up.
She's a rock/metal fan, she's got a ridiculous set of pipes, why shouldn't she sing with them?
#199 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2023 Tour Dates » 119 weeks ago
I hope everyone complaining had an issue with Slash too.
Yeah, God forbid that the members of GN'R should spend some of their downtime between tours doing guest spots of their most famous songs with pop acts.
#200 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2023 Tour Dates » 119 weeks ago
I realize why Jungle gets picked for such events...the song is known everywhere and guarantees a crowd pop....but goddamn. Do something interesting, quirky, risky....
It's a show by another artist where he's turning up to perform a duet. That's an even more casual audience than the ones who come to a NITL show to hear SCOM and go "They're playing our song!"
He's not going to sing Breakdown or My World or Scraped or whatever.
