My Weekly Soundtrack: 10/29

Baby E has three shows that she likes to watch….or at least have on in the background as she gets into everything she’s not supposed to be getting into. The first two are ones that she’ll watch with her cousins, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Bubble Guppies. The third is all her. That’s to be expected, however, as it is a princess show and she’s the only girl (on my side of the family anyways). The show is called Sofia the First.

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Sofia, like any of the other movies/shows about Disney princesses, has its characters occasionally breaking out into song for no particular reason. In one, Sofia’s sister starts singing as she’s walking through the castle. Then, as she’s walking, the castle maids join in, singing background. Granted, outside of other Disney movies, I haven’t seen all that many musicals (This is because I find it incredibly weird when people break out into song for no reason). I’ve seen enough to notice something, though: Apparently nobody has a bad singing voice. Even the people in the background are good singers. They also somehow know exactly what the main character is going to sing.

Here’s a scene that I’d like to see (although because I don’t watch musicals, this may have already been done before and I just don’t know about it): The main character breaks out into song. After a minute of singing, everyone in the background joins in. Seconds after everyone joins in, it becomes obvious that one of the background singers is singing the wrong words and is incredibly off key. Everyone in the song stops and looks at the bad singer. He, or she, apologizes and walks away. The main character looks at one of the other background singers, shrugs, and then they start singing again where they left off.

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I Just Don’t Understand

I don’t get all the Nickelback hate. It seems no matter where I turn, someone else is bashing Nickelback. While I’m not a big Nickelback fan, I do like some of their songs. I don’t think they’re as bad as everyone is making them out to be. The only reason I’m even writing about this is that the biggest complaint I’ve heard about them makes absolutely no sense to me.

The complaint about them that I hear the most is “Now all bands sound like Nickelback.”

How the hell is that their fault? They have no control over what other bands do. It’s not their fault other bands might be copying their style. If you want to be bashing somebody, bash the bands that are trying to sound like Nickelback.

If you don’t like Nickelback because you just don’t like their music, that’s fine. However, if you’re one of those who bash them because other bands are copying them, your logic blows. How would you feel if someone copied something you did, then everybody started hating you for it?