Yah, thats the title of Metallica's Documental that i rent on sunday, I thought i was getting one of my latest 'must-to-copy' dvd, but after seing it, I'm seriously thinking about in my so named "Metallica Fan# and groupie-wannabe", i was pretty much dissapointed, I might not be a hell of a fan, but dang, I'm a fair one. I was there when 'load' and 'reload' popped up, but with 'st anger'.. sheesh, the dvd is worst, James Hetfield after 20 yrs of a 'bad boy' look, he went into the rehab and gets into the studio from 12 to 4 (evening), He told Jason that he (jason) was paying too much attention to his aside project (echobrain) and makes him to pick up his mind, (i have no idea what James was thinking when he tought that echobrain would be as important as Metallica, or even compare them). What Jason did?, walked away with the heart broken, how do i know that?, because that was what they showed in the DVD, Jason almost breaking in tears, the whole Band hiring a 'therapyst' so they could get all along and go trough their new cd, paying him 40,000 US by month. What was the conclusion?, they got all rehab, came all cleaned up, taking care of their families, Lars did a bit of painting and sold them on cristies (5 million), Kirk just kind of did pretty much nothing, all of them were in the MTV Icon, released the new cd after 2 yrs. And what was the result?.. Obviously, some kind of shit..
Epilogue. I've erased the .iso of my laptop i rather keep the space for something that worth it. (some bronco, or mexican 'cumbia' & 'salsa' thing for sure).. haha
Taking about shitty, if my spelling is that bad, blah.. I'm not an english-native so.. If I dont give a f*!, 'reader, please, do exactly the same'.
4 comments:
I wil doo exctly de saim. Sheers.
Seiously, though. The members of Metallica have been more businessmen than musicians, worrying more about losing their income to P2P schemes and MP3 rips, than to contributing anything original to the world and to their fans. If they need rehab or therapy it's probably because they have been overstressed by Napster taking away their livelihood (as if they didn't have enough already).
In other words, Metallica is a sell-out. Most successful bands are (now that I think about it, aren't we all).
I don't mind, really, if the music is cool.
About being a 'sell-out', I'm sure everybody have their own price, i would like to know that mine is higher than the average.
Selling-out is to betray in some way. I guess we sort of expect musicians to be artists for art's sake. However, if you are in it for the money, right from the start, then you could hardly be accused of being a sell-out (so, music products such as, say, most of the teen groups, or Britney Spears, etc are just being naturally themselves: commercial products tweaked for maximum commercialism).
In this 'material world' (I bet you thought of Madonna right away; I was thinking more of The Police's Spirits in the Material World) getting reconigntion mostly is translated in coins (money, that is). Although in some circles, getting paid isn't cool, it shouldn't be something out of the ordinary. So I guess, I'll forgive Metallica, and only judge them on musical merits.
Post a Comment