THE NEW LITA FORD?
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 at 3:00pm by Vince NeilsteinSome unorganized observations about this video by Australian shredder lady Orianthi, sent to me by Zena Metal:
- Is that a sequined PRS? Good lord! Hideous.
- What’s with the guitar neck protruding out into all the shots? Is that an attempt to relate to the Guitar Hero generation? If so, how come none of it matches up with the song??
- She can definitely play!
- Nice dive bomb at the 3:00 mark.
- Apparently she was to be Michael Jackson’s guitarist for his This Is It shows. Eddie Van Halen… Steve Stevens… Slash… Orianthi. Hmmm. That’s some pretty righteous company.
- So many 12 year old dudes are going to have raging hard-ons for her. 12 year old Vince would’ve been ALL over this!
- All things considered, this isn’t bad. It’s middle of the road guitar/power pop made for tweens. Even if not for the shred it’d still be alright. If kids are listening to this over Ashley Tisdale, that’s a step in the right direction. But hey, this coming from the guy who genuinely enjoyed Avril Lavigne’s first record… so don’t trust me too much.
-VN
It’s a pop punk singer that has some fancy guitar tricks to get the guitar hero generation hooked…big deal?
You liked skater boy? Talk about guilty pleasures!
sinse the posted video wouldn’t work for me, I checked her out on youtube. Fack. She can play. Fack. She’s pretty hot.
I kind of despise the song but at least it might encourage more people to learn guitar instead of a 5-button plastic toy.
I sorta kind of utterly hate it. I had to comment on my ambivalence there…
2 things:
1. Why are the shred bits (and anything vaguely soloistic) separate from the “live” scenes? Just wondering what that means…
2. Hmm. Interesting that it ends on a bit of a downer, as if the music hasn’t actually accomplished anything…
i have a boner
meh. Santana is promoting her because they both suck PRS cock.
HA! +1
That must be a typo. I think the headline you were looking for is “Shitstain on the Ass of the Universe”.
I kid. I kid.
She’s ok at best. If you want a truly talented young Australian lady, check out Tal Wilkenfeld. She’s 23, and she’s played bass for Jeff Beck, Herbie Hancock, and Chick Corea. Look for a live video of Beck’s “Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers” to see a really sick solo.
check her youtube videos. I thought she was meh too judging by the posted vid here. She’s definatly better than ok at best.
What videos I see nothing of interest.
looooooove tal wilkenfeld.
transformation is one of my go-to albums at work cuz death/grind is frowned upon…
Vince seems to have a thing for pop-rock chicks who play guitar. This, Halestorm…
Not to victimize or anything, I’m guilty as well.
She can play okay; better than me anyway. I can at least admit that. Her singing is boring though.
She’s reasonably hot too, but she needs to eat a few cheeseburgers.
shes a decent player, but this is alot better then most of the stuff out there. Her instrumental stuff isnt that bad, check out the namm videos.
Playing on the guitar like that is pretty easy, so I wouldn’t call her a ’shredder’. Especially when that is the same word people use to describe Yngwei and Paul Gilbert. Plus the licks sounded awful with the song itself.
lol it’s me
She can definitely play. Check out some of her NAMM videos and shit. I mean. Jock on her all you want for playing something that isn’t metal, but I mean. Perhaps she’s going to bring shred back. Integrating “shred”ish licks and stuff into a popish brand of music. Kinda like Mr. Big did a bit.
Like I said, jock on her all you want, this girl can wail.
you like avril lavinge?
for reals?
Alright… I could get behind this….
sold.
that chick is HOT!
Shreddish bits were interesting, but boy howdy was the singing boring as all hell. Even SHE looked bored by the singing.
this is goood? wow metal sucks is gay
what the hell is up with the camera on the guitar being played like a dobro? or is it doughbro? Dro? This is what I’ll probably jack off to when I’m 40 before I smoke sherm and hang myself.
if this shit makes you think of 12 year old hard ons I think your looking for a different sucks website
I’m surprised that no one pointed out that the protruding guitar neck was an obvious phallic symbol. Notice that it almost always points at her face.
I saw “This Is It,” the Michael Jackson documentary (hate me if you must, but it’s a very impressive behind-the-scenes view of the guy’s planned comeback) and the film shows her shredding at length. Apparently, she was gonna have a big guitar solo moment in the middle of the show. From watching that, I can tell you the woman can seriously play.
The song posted above is kinda cute, but it doesn’t showcase what she can really do with a guitar. Some producer probably told her to cut back the solo parts so the pop audience wouldn’t lose focus. Anyway, I’d be interested to hear her do some instrumental stuff, like Vai, Tony MacAlpine or Vinnie Moore.
12 year olds? Shit, i’m 34 and have a hard-on for her.
You could do alot worse from am usical standpoint. The point is…….would you want young girls taking inspiration from music like this where a female artist actually plays an instrument proficiently or would you rather her grow up idolizing talent-less bimbos like Britney?
all 12 year old girls should listen to Morbid Angel.
+1
She’s wonderful. I love Lita Ford. She’s working that Miley Cyrus angle now.
Good for her. I hope she gets millions of 15 year old girls out there to start playing guitar.
But as much as I love Lita Ford, this is my favorite rocker girl right now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg7i1-zPX68
I like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf_F2dV_sGU I’m not going to be 100% positive it is a girl until I see a face though.
Well, she’s got some talent… too bad it’s wasted on some pretty standard Kelly Clarkson crap.
if you’ve seen This Is It, you know that girl can PLAY
Oh god, pop and instruments do not go together and showing off any bit of skill at the instrument is a disgrace to the pop industry.
Auto-tune moar please and please do not ever play an instrument!!! How can you dance around the stage dancing like a beautiful lily showing you’re a sprouted flower over your old boyfriend if you got an instrument in your hand!? EEEEEW!!!
Anyways, good song or not, it’s nice seeing a video of a pop singing girl playing a damn instrument and actually showing some skill in it.
She is a fantastic guitar player and if she wants to do pop thats cool, its reminds me of japanesse pop in a small way cause that japanesse put guitar solos in alomost all their music even pop. and she can really play blues check this out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK9rfCpjOQc
It sound like every single pop-rock song released in the past decade, but she can play at least. I’d like to see her in a NWBHM type band or something.