Good Charlotte = Such Douches?
Stereogum reader Darren forwarded our Chris Wilson post to his fiancee who works at Google. Why? Because Good Charlotte were scheduled to play a lunchtime acoustic set in the Google HQ cafeteria in Mountain View, CA. She provides this report:
"just saw a bit while eating lunch. they are SUCH DOUCHES. they kept saying 'fuck yahoo' and 'i google myself everyday' and 'i'm going to write about this on my blog afterward' and, my personal fave, 'i used to live in san jo...santana RIZ-OW'.Download all your fave Good Charlotte tunes at Yahoo! Music.all the googler engineers were like stone-cold silent...like robots 'this-does-not-com-pute'
[redacted] and i were going to make protest signs that said 'where's chri$ ?' but didn't have the time/resources. ;>"
Posted at 5:13 PM
Tags: Good Charlotte
They may usually play for fourteen-year old crowds, but I don't think comments (jokes?) that horrible would even fly with their adolescent audience.
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Just like the jump to conclusions mat in office space...this is horrible, this idea!
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i think he sent that email to you and me- for the record, i posted it first, but, i suppose that is rather outweighed by the fact that you get more readers in five minutes then i get in a week...
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has the world ever seen absolutely horrendous, embarrassing mall-punk meets suit-and-tie corporate culture before in quite so direct a way before? Of course we know there's no real substantive difference between those two things, but still, 40-year-old guys wearing makeup to appeal to their 12-year-old fans telling jokes to 40-year-old-guys who integrate databases for a living... there's something poetic about this - it may be a first in lameness on quite a few different levels, and perhaps the weirdest music-related clash of cultures since The KLF got Extreme Noise Terror shooting a fake machine gun on that British awards show that one year. Come to think of it, maybe The KLF booked Good Charlotte to play at Google HQ...
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The KLF is gonna rock you
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I watched them play today, and didn't think they were that lame. They were being silly and irreverent - but who cares - that's what they do, right? They're good charlotte, so you just expect a certain level of doucheyness. But people were laughing at the shit they said, contradictory to that chick's report. I even though "4-0-great" was funny.
Matthew -- "40-year-old-guys who integrate databases"? Ouch. But you might be surprised to find out that the 12-year-old girl demographic pretty much dominates here, and when he mentioned Hillary Duff I almost went deaf from the shrill screams. But you're right, it probably was the weirdest music-related clash of cultures ever. EVER!!!! EVVEERRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whatever... the pit was sick.
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i think that they suck balls, but that performance sounds pretty funny to me.
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Matthewaaron, your disdain for "suit-and-tie corporate culture" apparently doesn't extend to your own website, WHICH USES GOOGLE ADS TO GENERATE REVENUE. I bet you rationalize your idiocy by considering it a "subverise capitalist paradigm reversal" or some such bullshit. Take your fixed-gear bike and your Japanese noise vinyl collection (I bet it just KILLS you that Boris put out an accessible record!) and go back to Williamsburg.
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Oh Hilary , go to your room and play with your toys and costumes
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too bad they didnt sit there trying not to humble themselves to the google staff.
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to my critics:
a.) I think i have a friend or two who work for google, and they're not 40, nor do they do database integration. nonetheless, I'd imagine that someone at google is 40, and it's his/her response to Good Charlotte that I am interested in. Did my abstract description really come off as such a cutting perjorative?
b.) Hillary Duff: I think you're overblowing my critique of "corporate culture", not to mention my critique of google-as-such, which, if you read carefully, never actually happened. I haven't ridden a bike since 8th grade, and I haven't been to Williamsburg in weeks! In your foaming-at-the-mouth rant, you seem to have lost sight of a great deal of what I actually said.
Nonetheless, I appreciate your name-dropping of Boris right after your critique of my hypothetical record collection. You most definitely offered a thorough criticism of someone. Whether that person actually exists, however, isn't quite so clear. Glad you dug the site. (u mad, u mad) Hope we can someday be internet friends.
-matt
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ok, come on, that is pretty hilarious. you know they were shitting around, i would have been laughing pretty hard.
except i don't get that RIZ-OW business. because i'm canadian?
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santana riz-ow (santana row) is a fake downtown outdoor mall built in san jose for the fake-boobed over-dressed nouveau rich too afraid to go to san francisco, or, heaven forbid, actual downtown san jose.
kind of appropriate good charlotte would name drop it, if you ask me.
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I was at the show today and I thought these guys were funny as hell.
Say what you will, but they approached the whole thing in a very chill way and just cracked casual sincere jokes and played an acoustic set of a few hits.
I am going to say there were 1800 people there to see them and I think most people had a very good time.
Man, you are running out of things to hate on. :)
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I was at the show today and I thought these guys were funny as hell.
Say what you will, but they approached the whole thing in a very chill way and just cracked casual sincere jokes and played an acoustic set of a few hits.
I am going to say there were 1800 people there to see them and I think most people had a very good time.
Man, you are running out of things to hate on. :)
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I was at the show today and I thought these guys were funny as hell.
Say what you will, but they approached the whole thing in a very chill way and just cracked casual sincere jokes and played an acoustic set of a few hits.
I am going to say there were 1800 people there to see them and I think most people had a very good time.
Man, you are running out of things to hate on. :)
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Matty -- Just to follow up. I'm not a critic. In fact, I like you. We have two 39-year-olds here, and a 44 year old that hits up the occasional sweater-vest, but that's about the closest we get.
Please advise,
d.i.
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