Le Epic Choons

[shakahislop]

 

[version]

 

[Murphy]

WashYourHands' Top 23 (+77)

Tell us about seeing ESG back in the day, Leo.

www.dissensus.com

 

[IdleRich]

Who?

Phil Collins

 

[IdleRich]

Why Le Epic? Is it a French thing? If so then why not L'Epic?

 

[version]

Why Le Epic? Is it a French thing? If so then why not L'Epic?

It's an internet thing.

 

[IdleRich]

One of the worst things a song can do is go for epic and fail... it's like a comedy that isn't funny... and it is very easy to miss... you had better be pretty fucking sure you can nail it before you go for it.

 

[IdleRich]

This prompted me to think of how advertising these days is often anti-dramatic. It's all tongue-in-cheek, ironic, using "epic" music only to deflate it with a blokey eye roll. Obviously you still get pompous adverts with sweeping crane shots but I'd say the norm is now the opposite of that.

Oo1 as a general rule music doesn't seem to be cheeky or humorous or even innocent (not that advertising ever is).

Music is fighting for attention and significance, advertising is cloaking itself in mundanity

We should probably have a thread about how advertising changed from "ours is the best beer/cream/hat/whatever so use it" to.... whatever it is now. And all the stages it went through on the way.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Armand Van helden remix of spin spin sugar is epic

 

[Clinamenic]

We should probably have a thread about how advertising changed from "ours is the best beer/cream/hat/whatever so use it" to.... whatever it is now. And all the stages it went through on the way.

It seems like a good advertising fitness would be measured in memeability these days, might be where we are building towards.

 

[IdleRich]

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That's why he was perfect in Drive.
A bit like what someone was saying about Tom Cruise in Eyes Wide Shut - a clever director can look at an actor and their failings and if they have a film that requires someone to be like that they can use that actor to embody that without the actor ever knowing.... just thinking that they did the best audition and got the role cos of that.

 

[IdleRich]

I've wondered about that before. You must end up forgetting what you really looked like.

I loved that interview with Katie Price/Jordan when she was talking about having so much botox that she could barely move her face and she said something like "Well, I'm not an actor so I don't really need expressions" - an amazing insight into the way she viewed her body and how it looked and how much or little that related to who she actually thinks she is.

 

[IdleRich]

It hinges on whether you view this stuff as a mask or self-realisation, I suppose.

I hadn't read this when I mentioned Jordan but it's the same issue.

 

[droid]

Not sure it meets the seemingly arbitrary criteria, but this is objectively epic:




As is this:




Indisputable:




Ive seen this collapse structures and reduce grown men to tears:

 

[IdleRich]

Some of it's things most people have never even considered though, like who's going around sizing up people's wrists?

Amazing stuff. Proper insanity... but of course it's a slippery slope. This is the bottom but the top bits that get you on to it are obviously things that make a lot more sense... we might not agree with them but we can understand them.

 

[thirdform]

all diabolical but enough epicness for the epic degenerates to chew on for two lifetimes.

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/TheScientist/rym-ultimate-box-set-epic-house/

 

[thirdform]

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Schwilly19/rym-ultimate-box-set-epic-doom-metal/

 

[sus]

Not sure it meets the seemingly arbitrary criteria, but this is objectively epic:




As is this:




Indisputable:




Ive seen this collapse structures and reduce grown men to tears:

Counted.

 

[IdleRich]

Epic means long right? Is this epic?

 

[wektor]