Oh no. You don't do *versions* of that song. It is pure, it is wonderful, and it is applicable to every fandom available. But thou shalt not sully the sanctity of 'Creep' with vids and songfics. (*priestly nod*)
It's the late 90s. They made cynicism and deression so "cool".
(*dutifully reads airquotes. ;D*) Yeah, it became whiny and self-pitying - it was suddenly cool to be an angsty, bratty teenaged "rebel". -_-;;; That's not what the genre was supposed to be about; the songs didn't used to be so whiny and annoying. They were just depressed, not trying to make us feel sorry for them. (Because we gen x-ers have no time for sympathy. ;P)
I feel like an aging hippy, talking about when music used to *mean* something. :P
Mind you, it made their male dancers look as if they had less shoulders than the girls, which just made me laugh.
:D I'll bet there was a chorus of backup dancers stowed away in there, in case of freak shoulder pad injuries. :P
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Date: 2003-10-31 07:55 pm (UTC)It's the late 90s. They made cynicism and deression so "cool".
(*dutifully reads airquotes. ;D*) Yeah, it became whiny and self-pitying - it was suddenly cool to be an angsty, bratty teenaged "rebel". -_-;;; That's not what the genre was supposed to be about; the songs didn't used to be so whiny and annoying. They were just depressed, not trying to make us feel sorry for them. (Because we gen x-ers have no time for sympathy. ;P)
I feel like an aging hippy, talking about when music used to *mean* something. :P
Mind you, it made their male dancers look as if they had less shoulders than the girls, which just made me laugh.
:D I'll bet there was a chorus of backup dancers stowed away in there, in case of freak shoulder pad injuries. :P