Dallas we could substitute your name for Susan Boyle, minus all the youtube hits, and the article would be even more true

hey, you’re not in the band anymore. nobody cares. get out.

Here’s the game:

How much money would you have to be paid in order to drop a Metallica album on Susan Boyle?

Of all things to blog about, Susan Boyle? i had to google her to figure out who she was. You came back to write about THIS? sheesh. Yeah she sings great and she’s ugly. Amazing.

That’s why metal is so cool. Guys at Metallica, Lamb of God, Mastodon etc are ugly as fuck but they write (or wrote) good music, and this is what we like them for. Right? Right?!

hey your back! and an exactly right.

I would tend to agree with you for the most part, but sadly even the people who are ugly AND talentless out there say the same things.

When it comes down to it we live in a capitalist society, fast becoming a capitalist world. Though talent can be vastly appreciated, it doesn’t make it lucrative. On the flip side, just because beauty is extremely appealing doesn’t mean that a lack of talent will be offset by the beauty. There are plenty of very attractive people who couldn’t sing very well on American Idol who got booted off as well.

I think that people generally view things as a total package, and if things don’t connect somewhere in that package it just doesn’t work. In the pop world there’s an expectation, in the metal world there’s an expectation, there’s expectations everywhere. If you understand them it makes it a lot easier to understand where you fit in.

I never watch any of the shows like that (and tv, mostly) because of the idealised lifestyle of utter bullshit it promotes. Sweet sixteen parties for all the West Coast princess cunts, “my life is so bad!” emo bullshit of the fucking upper white middle class, overplaying the gay guy role (seriously, I have no problem with gay people, but does every single fucking show need a gay character now? yes, we know they exist, yes, we accept it, stop overplaying the fucking subject!), and I don’t watch shit like American Idol because it’s less about people watching to see others actually achieve something, and more about watching to see others get torn down, horribly, on television, in front of millions. People LOVE that shit because they know that someone is getting nailed in the ass at that moment worse than they are, and that’s all they care about. other people getting fucked worse so the fuckheads in front of their tvs feel better about themselves.

I fucking love the fact that Susan Boyle came out to jeers and sarcasm and fucking blew everyone away as soon as she started singing. I don’t buy into the, “She’s beautiful inside!” bullshit, because that’s nothing more than middle school propaganda to make every normal motherfucker feel better about theirselves. What I love about this situation is that it wouldn’t have happened if Susan Boyle looked like Elisha Cuthbert, or Britney Spears (circa say, 1999). People are so used to celebrities being being personifications of Aphrodite and Adonis that they forget normal people can have absolutely outstanding talents, too. Society expects ugly people to be bad at everything – it fucking forces the idea that the prerequisite fucking standard for being able to do anything extraordinary is to first be beautiful. I mean, shit, Britney Spears never could sing with a fuck, and look where she ended up – even after the spotlight talent is done with, the media can do all sorts of shit with a beautiful person. But when an ugly person’s light shuts down, the media can’t do shit, except do a “Where is She Now?” show 10 years later.

I’m actually glad that Susan Boyle isn’t going to win any beauty pageants, because it FORCES people to concentrate on her true talent – the one most fucking entertainers lack these days – and say, “Wow, damn, you know, she doesn’t look any different than the cleaning lady I see leaving work every night. Who’d have ever imagined she could do something like that?” and it’ll make them wonder about that cleaning lady. It’ll make them wonder about everything normal people can do. The most unfortunate part is that it won’t last – the next untalented cunt will show up, flashing her tits around and lip-sync’ing to music that’s less human music and more computer-generated noise, and everyone will stop thinking about what normal people can do, and go back to staring at a set of tits on an untalented twat – because, really, that’s all the music industry is about today.

Cool post! Couldn’t agree with you more.

I agree 100%. Image and music have always pissed me off and to see some of these new reporters almost pittying her made me cringe.

The internet has made music worse, sure you can download tons of stuff and hear new things easier but the majority of what I listened to as a teen I had no idea what the band looked like (other then the cover) and to see a video of say “Riot” was impossible.

I miss the mystic of hearing a new band and having no idea how they look or dress or even where they come from.

Um….yea, you come back to blog about Susan Boyle? Not about why you left your amazingly talented band after they just dropped their opus and not about why you left your amazingly talented band just as they were about to go on tour with Lamb of God…but about Susan Boyle.

Yea, we get it. Ugly woman with the voice of an angel, I’ve heard about it all fucking week. I don’t come to this site to read about current events, I want blogs about metal. If I want political blogs, I’ll go to the Huffington Post, if I want sports blogs, I’ll go to ESPN, but this was the last thing I thought you’d write about

Ok, once again, you come back to blog about….Susan Boyle? This site has sucked your cock till it ‘s raw and bleeding and you blog about this……? Da fuck!!

I tell ya, you got balls man. Just dropping in like nothing happened and blogging about the feel good story of the moment.

Like the person above me said, you don’t have to go into all the gory details, but on this site, of all places, a little clarification would go over a long way. Nobody here gives a shit about the Susan Boyle story.

God dammit! This edition of Hard R is full of fail

Can’t you fucks see how much Dallas’ post is about US, the METALHEADS? Whether he intended it or not, the comparisons drawn to Susan Boyle are the same comparisons you can make to heavy metal music. If you judge it by what it looks like on the surface, you’ll never understand it’s beauty.

We’ve not ALWAYS been like that. Look at the 60′s, 70′s and even the early 80′s. Some Musicians were UAF. Some of the ugliest people can sing their asses off. Look at Freddy Mercury. That dude had an overbite that made The Maxx say “DAMN!”, but he could sing. It’s the video culture that has made people want musicians to be pretty. Ugly people are proven not to be given opportunities that pretty people generally get. It’s horse shit that we expect a nice voice to come out of a beautiful person on the outside. Same reason Bo Bice didn’t win during his run on American Idiot. He was obviously the better all around musician, but he didn’t have tits and blond hair. We’ve progressively seen it get worse year after year and it will continue to be a fuckin pony show. Anyone who makes it on will later be eliminated if they are overweight or no appealing to the eye.

I say keep metal ugly and proud.

Dallas needs to have his hair done like Susan Boyle’s.

Dallas Boyle..maybe you can tour with her…

Dalls likes to talk like he knows more than us, and is more observent, but it just isn’t true. Just because the video has a million hits does not mean we don’t care about the economic crisis, it means we needed a diversion. Most of us can do absolutely nothing about the economic crisis ourselves, we are jsut along for the ride. So what is wrong with some entertainment along the wya? Isn’t that what yuo do Dallas? Or at least you used to do it, who knows now. But ultimately, if this woman can inspire people to take a risk and do something they have always dreamed of then great! I think DAllas is just mad that she got more views in a week than God Forbid ever did. Also…how can Dallas biith about media blah, blah, blah and how we as society don’t pay attention blah, blah, blah, and he has obviously watched the damn video himself! If he truly wanted to be justified in his accusations that he always makes he should back them up…actiosn speak lowder than words my friend.