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04-20-2010, 12:18 PM
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Re: ICP Miracles
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Originally Posted by Dids
Seriously...
I don't know why SNL thought it was funny to parody a parody song. The end result was amusing, but it's like doing a cover of a Weird AL song or something, the high concept was already executed, and better.
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wait what? you think the original song is a parody? i don't.
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04-20-2010, 12:21 PM
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old hand
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Re: ICP Miracles
ICP promoting learning imo
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04-20-2010, 12:22 PM
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Eternal Unknowable Mesmerizing
Join Date: Sep 2005
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Re: ICP Miracles
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04-20-2010, 12:23 PM
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Re: ICP Miracles
The ICP video really is about the funniest thing I've ever seen. It's just mesmerizing in its complete earnestness and lack of self-awareness.
Agree that the SNL video was redundant and couldn't top the original.
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04-20-2010, 12:25 PM
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Re: ICP Miracles
Maybe not a technical parody, but I have to think it's pretty damn self aware. I mean I have to assume the intent was to be funny and not honestly introspective about the magic of the world.
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04-20-2010, 12:27 PM
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#51
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Re: ICP Miracles
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Originally Posted by Dids
Maybe not a technical parody, but I have to think it's pretty damn self aware. I mean I have to assume the intent was to be funny and not honestly introspective about the magic of the world.
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I agree with Triumph; I think that's a bad assumption.
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04-20-2010, 12:30 PM
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Re: ICP Miracles
I mean, I know ICP is dumb, their fans pollute my bus on a weekly basis, but they're not THAT dumb are they?
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04-20-2010, 12:34 PM
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Re: ICP Miracles
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Originally Posted by Dids
I mean, I know ICP is dumb, their fans pollute my bus on a weekly basis, but they're not THAT dumb are they?
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yes.
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04-20-2010, 12:35 PM
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Re: ICP Miracles
It's a cheesy video, but their entire schtick is cheese, so it's not like that's any reason to stop. If you want to view them as crafty and scheming, instead of parody I think it's still far more likely that they decided their fanbase wanted to hear some "positive" music and adopted a worldview they thought would be congruent with what the fans wanted. Considerably more likely still is just that this is how they think about ****. It's not like even good hip-hop isn't full of people with ideas that most of us would probably consider dumb or unacceptable. (EDIT: For example, I like One Be Lo's SONOGRAM, but it is jarring to listen to a guy come out with "them apes ain't evolved, I can't swallow your vomit.")
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04-20-2010, 12:37 PM
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old hand
Join Date: Nov 2005
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Re: ICP Miracles
That's right America, magic does exist. We've known about this for some 2,000 years...
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04-20-2010, 01:01 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Re: ICP Miracles
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Originally Posted by gumpzilla
The whole discussion of "****in' magnets" taps into a philosophical question about what you mean by explanation. Science is rarely going to be any good at giving ultimate explanations, because whenever you think you have explained something, you can usually ask the same questions about stuff one level deeper. That can still be worthwhile, as you can now reduce a huge body of information down to a couple of basic empirical axioms.
While many of the people laughing at this song do not understand magnets, I suspect not many of them share this attitude, which is the real anti-intellectualism:
And I don’t wanna talk to a scientist
Y’all mother****ers lying, and getting me pissed
Serious business aside, they're also talking about pelicans and rainbows and Dark Carnivals and juggalos while rapping poorly and made up like chunky middle aged clowns. What's not to laugh at?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8 mother****ing lyin' feynman
Last edited by sledghammer; 04-20-2010 at 01:07 PM.
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04-20-2010, 01:11 PM
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veteran
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Re: ICP Miracles
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I love Feynman; he's such a beast. His book "Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman" is a must read. It's so well written that it puts some solid fiction to shame in terms of sheer enjoyment and interest.
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04-20-2010, 01:15 PM
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Born Ready
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Re: ICP Miracles
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Originally Posted by Dids
I mean, I know ICP is dumb, their fans pollute my bus on a weekly basis, but they're not THAT dumb are they?
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spend 30 seconds listening to any interview theyve ever given.
They are that dumb. IMO, theres zero chance that song is anything other than 100% sincere to them
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04-20-2010, 01:30 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Re: ICP Miracles
ICP is music by stupid people, for stupid people. Really not much else to it.
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04-20-2010, 01:41 PM
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grinder
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Re: ICP Miracles
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Originally Posted by Alobar
spend 30 seconds listening to any interview theyve ever given.
They are that dumb. IMO, theres zero chance that song is anything other than 100% sincere to them
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Wow...just...wow. My initial thoughts were exactly with Dids when I first saw the video.
Wasn't ICP one of the first groups to completely sell out and appear on an MTV 'fake' concert where the entire audience was payed by sprite or something? I learned that in a college class so it must be true right?
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