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re: Hey, Charles Isherwood: SCREW YOU!

Posted by: Budinsky 11:29 am EST 12/07/13
In reply to: re: Hey, Charles Isherwood: SCREW YOU! - enoch10 04:52 pm EST 12/06/13

RE "A bad song is a bad song and this is a bad song": Thank you for your definitive and irrefutable assessment. I had no idea you were the ultimate authority.

RE "It may have been used to raise money but that just makes it a bad song used to raise money, exactly what Isherwood wrote": Not exactly, your highness. What he wrote was: "I didn’t know that Mr. Bacharach wrote the music for this treacly Warwick hit from the 1980s (with Carole Bayer Sager as lyricist), and frankly I wish he hadn’t." There's not a word about the song's role as fundraiser.


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re: Hey, Charles Isherwood: SCREW YOU!

Posted by: ryhog 11:44 am EST 12/07/13
In reply to: re: Hey, Charles Isherwood: SCREW YOU! - Budinsky 11:29 am EST 12/07/13

Re the first point, it seems to me you always have to assume that the person calling a song "bad" is implicitly adding "to me" to the sentence. A song is only bad if no one responds to it positively, so the most that someone can say is that they don't like it. I really don't understand what strength some people apparently gain from pretending they have some formula for discerning everyone else's taste.

Re the second point, what we have is a classic case of a premise that exists only on ATC, that somehow takes on a life of its own.


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re: Hey, Charles Isherwood: SCREW YOU!

Posted by: Budinsky 12:41 am EST 12/08/13
In reply to: re: Hey, Charles Isherwood: SCREW YOU! - ryhog 11:44 am EST 12/07/13

RE "...you always have to assume that the person calling a song 'bad' is implicitly adding 'to me' to the sentence": No, I don't have to always assume anything. If he/you meant "to me," then he he/you should have clearly stated such -- which he/you didn't.

RE "A song is only bad if no one responds to it positively, so the most that someone can say is that they don't like it": That makes no sense at all.

RE "...what we have is a classic case of a premise that exists only on ATC, that somehow takes on a life of its own": This is even more senseless than the previous quote which would seem an impossibility as that one made no sense.


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