The Nasty Bits Suck

Agreed.

Butt for the sake of the story/series I guess we're to assume that they totally rocked an killed it--poetic license and all that, eh?




"Stick with me, baby, and you'll be fartin' thru silk."

This is a problem whenever a show revolves around new music. It's like the Get Shorty movies. The first one was about the movie business and was great, they just parody a movie and it was ok. The second one, Be Cool, was about music so we had to watch everyone go nuts over something that wouldn't be worth listening to. Or the record company arc of Wiseguy where they go nuts listening to a song that Blondie is embarrassed to sing. At least I hope she was.
I think the problem is that you can fake anything else, but when it's a music story you have to actually use some new song and if it was any good they'd have sold it for a lot more than they'll get from the movie producers.

I agree, Kip Stevens (Jagger) is a very immature, self-destructive character (eg mouths off to Richie, manager, band mates, band rep). I'd be surprised he doesn't get booted from or leaves the band, maybe OD's, in the next season.

"Sorry. If I've not responded to you either it wasn't necessary or I've set you to Ignore."

They come off as too forced, too reharsed. There's definitely a poser vibe there.


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Yes, I agree.

Speaking as a musician myself, Kip, Alex and the other are boring and not driven.

I imagine an artist like the ones the show are representing as an "obsessed" person about music.
I'm not a pro, but my guitar is always at my arm's reach at home. At Kip's home I've never seen a guitar around.

Then in E-A-B an artist like Kip says "we've tried every chord progression that exists"? Really? Are you kidding me? You are a musician and you came out with this madness?

Fun fact: the song Life on Mars is really sung by R&B singer Trey Songz. For some reason, I wasn't convinced by Xavier "lip-syncing" that song probably cuz I knew who really singing it but I felt it didn't match the character.

The band was best in front of a crowd, when they played off the love/hate vibe of the shows.

But think about what punk was musically. It was anti-prog rock. It wasn't about being well rehearsed, prepared, or even musically literate. It was much more about the attitude, image and raw sound, than it ever was about the actual music.

Not that there weren't many 'punk' bands that took it to the next level, and mixed a heavy dose of lyrical politics and musicianship. But I think the show it stuck with having to show root stereotypes, which is what we see.

He plays a bland copy of Sid Vicious. The name of the band is just silly and not charismatic either. But for the rest I am really enjoying this show.