The Like/Hate Thread

[Josh]

'good slam poetry'

There's your problem, no such thing.

[Maruset]

I get the same thing with seafood on occasion. "I don't like seafood." "Oh, you've just never had the good stuff, try this shrimp!"

[Jonathan Meer]

There's your problem, no such thing.

That's not my problem, that's their problem.

[Android 17]

Pardon me for not knowing, but wtf is slam poetry?

[Anzekay]

Meer I heard you don't like folk music so here is some folk music for you!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

[Undrask]

Pardon me for not knowing, but wtf is slam poetry?

DEF JAM

[King B]

Never heard anyone refer to it as slam poetry. Sounds pretty damn hardcore for folk music.

[Jarka]

Man, people are dumb. If I say I don't like slam poetry (or folk), that doesn't mean I haven't heard 'good slam poetry'. It means I don't like slam poetry. Don't send me fucking slam poetry. I don't like slam poetry.

Seriously. What the fuck is this? So many people do this and it fucking pisses me off.

EDIT: Oh, you don't like folk? Here, listen to this folk song

http://youtu.be/M6wJl37N9C0

[Undrask]

Like: Folk music.

[Android 17]

Folk music is what jewish immigrants sang to make their lives seem a little less shitty. The modern genre is just a bunch of hipsters with varying levels of musical talent portraying various levels of douche.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go listen to some New Wave. lololol

[Undrask]

If you put any kind of music in a historical context all of it seems silly. In fact, that goes for everything ever.

[Anzekay]

Folk music is what jewish immigrants sang to make their lives seem a little less shitty. The modern genre is just a bunch of hipsters with varying levels of musical talent portraying various levels of douche.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go listen to some New Wave. lololol

Oh so you've never heard of old folk songs that were sung in Europe during times that even date back to before the whole jewish immigrants thing?

You're missing out

[Jonathan Meer]

Slam poetry isn't folk. Slam poetry is one thing and folk is a separate thing, and I don't like either.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxsOVK4syxU

That's slam poetry. And I hate this one slightly less than others. But still no thanks.

[Super Buu]

Slam folk is going to be the new big thing, mark my words.

[Violet]

Slam folk is going to be the new big thing, mark my words.

lmfao!

[Kaden]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxsOVK4syxU

That's slam poetry. And I hate this one slightly less than others. But still no thanks.

So, and I mean this seriously, how is that different from just talking?

[Undrask]

So, and I mean this seriously, how is that different from just talking?

Banjos and a feeling of self-importance.

[Valora Crow]

So, and I mean this seriously, how is that different from just talking?

They lyrically address social issues (from what I've seen). More direct than song, and more structured and pretty-sounding than speech.

I've yet to hear one with a banjo. O.o

[Tyr]

It just looks like comedy with awkward pauses in their speech.

[Sophia]

So, and I mean this seriously, how is that different from just talking?

It likely looks more like poetry written out.

You also are obligated as a slam poet to scream, almost cry, and raise your middle finger somewhere throughout the exercise.