My pick, without any hesitation, is Chris Brown, especially if he could land on a fist-shaped rock.
Have at it!
By the way, keep those thread ideas coming!
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Weekend Discussion Thread: What Pop Singer Would You Like to See Fall from a Lighthouse?I can’t let this week’s episode guide entry go by without taking our own turn at the little game Joel and the bots play during one of the segments. For the record, as Joel said, we’re not actually pushing them off the lighthouse. “We’re just going to put the fear o’ God into ’em.” Let’s just assume the fall isn’t going to kill them, just scare ’em a bit. (Wink.)
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Some of my choices have actually already fallen from the Big Lighthouse (which is to say, they’re dead), but I have to go with Steve Perry.
Male singer–Steven Tyler; “Street cred? Who needs street cred?”
Female singer–Lady Gaga; the shtick has gotten old faster than imagined.
My list would be much shorter if you had asked, “Which Pop Singer Would You NOT Like to See Fall From a Lighthouse.”
How about Justin Beiver(or is it Biever)…whatever….and to top it off, send his entire schreeching preteen fanclub down along with him…that would cure “Bever Fever”.
Justin Bieber. And not just fall. Shoved
Brad Pastie
Carrie Underwear
Keith Urbane
All for various reasons. I’d at least like to make good on actually tossing Pastie’s guitar on which he plays those insipid solos oooon off the tower along with Urbane’s fake twang (if it’s possible to toss a twang…welll…I’d find a way, maybe have Jason Aldean punch Urbane’s mouth out and toss that along with the guitar). Carrie Underwear I’d like to hang her off the tower like John Cleese in A Fish Called Wanda hanging off the window and let her apologized over and over until her shoes fell into the water then let her back up.
(being a country morning guy for a few years now, I’ve given this lots of thought each morning waiting for a chance to unveil my thoughts to the world)
Can I get more than one entry? Good. I’ll start old school with Terry Jacks. “Seasons in the Sun” is a solid argument for censorship.
whitney hou–, oh i mean, ummm…yeah, i agree with the justin beaver and chris brown picks. let’s see some lighthouse railing kills!
Faith Hill- yeah, she’s cute and all- but those NFL promos are a crime, the sentence- falling from a lighthouse.
The Entire band of Edison Lighthouse for doing “love grows where my rosemary goes”.
I have to pick just one? I can’t just plop a copy of the current Hot 100 down on the desk and say “Start here”?
Justin Beiber and Katy Perry. I could probably name more but I stopped listening to “Top 40” radio a long time ago.
Damn, Sampo took mine. I don’t understand people (especially women) are supporting this guy again. Chris Brown sucks.
*how people.
Rod Stewart (what a sellout), and Celine Dion.
All of them!! They’re all a bunch of untalented, overexposed, overrated idiots! They can all jump off a lighthouse for all I care!
I agree, this is actually pretty tough.
For today, I’ll go with Lady Gaga for blatantly ripping off both Madonna and Cyndi Lauper, and the schtick wasn’t all that great when they did it.
If you’d asked me this in the early 70’s, I’d have gone with Donny Osmond in a second. Ye gods, I hated him when back then.
My picks are Katy Perry and Britney Spears – and they can take Lady Gaga with them!
Though, if Lady Gaga didn’t exist, we wouldn’t have Kevin and his golden chords singing “Poker Face” …hmm…something to ponder then…
chris martin
My picks: Barry Manilow,Keith Urban,Toby Keith,Justin Bieber(already mentioned,but needs to be repeated),Celine Dion,Janet Jackson,Barbara Streisand,Hank Williams,Jr.,Chris Brown,Kanye West and Taylor Swift–ugh!!
I see no reason to limit this to pop singers.
I nominate Sarah Palin.
How about Wayne Coyne from the band The Flaming Lips?
Sampo – I had a similar thought regarding Chris Brown as I read the topic, although in my mind I had the giant rock thrown down after him! What a dickweed!
Additionally, I’m thinking:
Fred Durst
Creed
Nickelback
Sugar Ray
Now, I realize most of these picks are not as prominent as they once were, but they’ve left some pretty deep scars…
Justin Bieber. Not shoved, picked up by the scruff of his neck and backside and thrown.
The entire line-up of Silversun Pickups. The idiotic DJ who I once heard call them “the new Smashing Pumpkins” should join them.
(Seriously, “Lazy Eye” is a miraculous song because you can tell down to the second when it turns to crap.)
So many of these comments just sound like “any famous person from any era that I would like to see fall from a lighthouse”. I don’t really count just any popular musician as a “pop singer”, and I see it as usually being a label with an expiration date, so I won’t bring up any such annoying people from the past, since I don’t really think you can call them “pop singers” once they are no longer cared about by the general masses of consumer drones who buy their “pop singer” music. So Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson WERE “pop singers” and then maintained their popularity and earned a lot of well deserved respect, and so they grew out of the label to just become “stars”, where as Britany Spears WAS a “pop singer” and then did whatever she did and currently does, and grew out of the label when most people stopped caring and no one started respecting her, and she became a “has-been”.
Anyway I’ve reached the age and point in my life where I just don’t pay enough attention to the current “pop stars” to actually be truly annoyed by any of them the way I was back in my youthful heyday (which for me was mainly the 1990’s and into the 2000’s). I even noticed with a sense of great pride that the latest Kidz Bop commercial contained exactly zero songs that I recognized even the slightest bit. That being said I would definitely like to see Katy Perry fall off of a light house… and onto my mouth (nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more, say no more).
Can we have Kenny Rogers fall to his doom again? I just don’t think he’s a very good person.
And Katy Perry. Used to be a fan, enjoyed “You’re so Gay”, funny song. But can’t stand her now. So sick of that damn song “firework”
Kanye, Beyonce and Ke$ha, for starters.
I consider modern pop musicians to be unwitting pawns behind the real evil that is destroying music: Dynamic Range Compression.
Ever notice that music is getting louder but crappier? It’s not the musicians*, it’s the processing. Get the producers who keep doing this crap and throw them from the lighthouse — and put Portals above and below so they keep falling.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression#Marketing
*Except for Bieber and Nickelback — that’s the musicians AND the processing ; )
Ray Stevens, Nickelback, Bryan Adams, Yanni and Zamfir.
All of them. I hate pop music.
I only listen to good jazz, and Deep Purple, and Rush. (90% of the time). The other 10 % is my own music that I’ve produced over the years
As a service I’d like to list these, as yet (I believe), unmentioned:
Kenny (oh) Geez and his honky horn
Michael Bloaton and his loud mouth
(sample quotes from them on the lighthouse: Bloaton- AARRRRRRRRRR, ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR, don’t drop me man, what are you doing? AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRR, what’d I ever do to you?!!, Kenny (oh) Geez: hoooooonk honk honk hoooooooonk…! [playing that thing he plays in an attempt to sway us from drop that bum on down with Bloaton] Kenny (oh) Geez: drop bloaton! he’s way more annoying than meeeee… HOOOOOOOOOOONNNK! )
Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds.–“Don’t pull your love out on me BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAby……..”
Can I list Hulk Hogan? He did record a musical bum…er music album!
Ordinarily, I would suggest the band Parachute Club fall from a lighthouse, but then I remembered exactly what kind of club they were…
So, Satellite News turned into the Youtube comments section?
I don’t wish anyone death, if somebody annoys me, I just switch to something I like.
#Sorry: I don’t wish anyone’s death. If someone annoys me, I switch to something I like.
I don’t want to sound rude, but this thread comes as a little bit childish.
I’d say Madonna has been long overdue for a good fall from a lighthouse, but I’m not interested in seeing that because that’s not how you kill vampires.
The Band that played California Lady.
Let’s toss that kid-toucher Gary Glitter out right after Chris Brown!
I would have to say all the band members of Train. They have a way of getting under my skin more than many other equally annoying bands. And it would also give the opportunity to make some remarks along the lines of “The train derailed”. Not funny, but strangely satisfying.
Bruno Mars
@8 – Your spectacularly crass and inappropriate comment dishonors the gentle spirit of MST and everyone who
reads this blog.
I would fit the band that played California Lady with bunji cords. However, I do have this inexplicable need to see Ryan Seacrest fall from a lighthouse. I know, not a pop singer, but I can’t help it.
Also:
The Plain White Tees
Train
Pretty much any modern iteration of “soft rock” genre.
Hank Williams Junior. And can we hurl javelins after him?
@43: was #8 comment too soon..? For the record I found it tasteless but it also made me laugh. So there.
All the disses on Chris Brown are justified. Woman beaters are scum. Chris Brown is scum.
Remember, no one is being pushed to their death out of this lighthouse, there’s a trampoline down below.. :)
Lots of good answers do far, Steven Tyler, Steve Perry, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, The Beiber, all good answers. Personally, I’d go with Hanson. MmmBop still burns my hinder all these years later..
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Can I shove Frank Sinatra out of the lighthouse? Maybe his coffin? Oh wait, too soon??? ;)
Sinaed O’connor, She doesn’t care about the children. That woman just wants attention.
Nickelback.
Ke$ha
and you can drop Maroon 5 several times (just to be sure).
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