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Post by The Curmudgeon on Jul 8, 2008 0:28:53 GMT 2
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Wow, that IS a lot to think about. Sheila, your "insults" remind me of Bart Simpson shouting abuse at Jimbo Jones: "Hey jerk face! You have the face of a jerk!"
So let me see if I've picked this up right. I've to go back to bed and try waking on the other side of.. the bed?" Ziiiing! You got me there! Ouch!
I'm a joy sucker that.. get ready folks, sucks the joy from everything! Fancy that. Man, my head hurts trying to keep up with you.
Well, Sheila, consider me well and truly pwned with your Oscar Wilde style razor sharp attacks.
Oh, no, wait - hang on. You're actually just another knuckle-dragging moron trying to sound intelligent (in front of your obvious betters), by defending a reality show spawned singing six year old. You're a perfect example of the reason I write these reviews - to wind up and annoy easily lead sheep like YOU.
Think about THAT.
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Post by Brule Cleanthes on Dec 8, 2008 0:53:40 GMT 2
Wow, talk about not understanding the existential insight. Curmudgeon is, obviously and apodictically, an inbred, slope-foreheaded, slack-jawed, coprophagous cretin. Children are people, soon to die.  |
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Post by Amaranth on Jan 7, 2009 21:43:44 GMT 2
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Sheila E's creativity here is stunning. Can she do a rendition of "Love Bizarre"?
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Post by Guy Maioano on Jan 7, 2009 21:44:29 GMT 2
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her name was lena zavaroni, she was from 1974, i remember her well, but the difference was lena actually had talent...she didnt kill herself, she had surgury on her brain to relieve depression and she died in the hospital ...
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Post by Legendary Swordsman on Jan 7, 2009 21:45:29 GMT 2
ORIGINAL COMMENT FROM AMAZON.COM" Is shoving a six year old girl in front of 13 million people called exploitation? No matter how "God-given" their talent is, you're a FOOL if you see it as anything but exploitation. Mark my words - she'll be a junkie by the time she's 14. " Is it? Honestly it depends on the reasoning for it. Some kids love being in front of everyone. obviously it doesn't bother her. I don't know her back story and you could very well be right. But do you know? Did you hear the parents and Connie? It comes down to the fact of if she enjoys it or not. If they are not letting her be a kid well she could be messed up like Mike Jackson. But it is possible to balance it. The parents better be good at it or your prediction could be true. I wouldn't scream exploitation so fast though. One a side note She does have an amazing voice. EDIT: Check out this article, www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-494435/Connie-gets-second-bite-stardom-gap-toothed-girl-shrugs-Cowells-rejection.htmli think they are doing a good job of preventing negative things from impacting her. If anything its the crazed people in the worlds fault not hers. Meh whatever I feel she will be fine. Her parents are making sure of that.
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Post by Brian Holt on Jan 7, 2009 21:46:02 GMT 2
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This is for The Curmudgeon: You are so far out of line with your review. This little girl is a true talent, who should be appreciated by anybody who enjoys music. You should be ashamed of yourself for a horrible review like this one. Obviously you have no taste in music and should never review anthing other than the fact that you are an idiot!
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Post by TJ14 on Jan 29, 2009 9:32:55 GMT 2
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I was curious to know why you were so overly critical over a six year old. And hence I took time out to check your profile out. What I came to see was no surprise to me. You are clearly a sadist, lashing out at one artist after another. Take time out to see the good in life. Constant disparaging talk isn't exactly saving the world. Look into your dirty self and upbringing.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Jan 30, 2009 1:19:10 GMT 2
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Look into my "dirty self?"
Are you hitting on me?
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Post by pauless on Feb 11, 2009 4:13:38 GMT 2
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The only person who should be ashamed is you Holt -for your cretinous
post. Presumably you bought the album, therefore you are supporting child labour. Nowhere in the Cur's review does he disrespect Connie in any sense, only the blinded-by-greed Fagins who can't see anything wrong with a six year old being shamefully propelled blinking into the limelight for the gain of people who are supposed to be looking out for her.
Still, you 'enjoy' her, so that's alright then. Everything's fine and dandy in the world.
Btw, the Fagin metaphor is apt when you consider what happened to the two child-stars of the 1968 'Oliver'. Jack Wild died of throat cancer brought on by excess, in his mid-forties - and Mark Lester spent years in drug and alcohol rehab and is still wrecked.
No-ones learned a single lesson.
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Post by trashcanman on Feb 11, 2009 13:39:45 GMT 2
I can't believe you didn't have more fun with that "joy sucker" bit. The "think about it" part made me laugh out loud because all I can picture when I think about a joy sucker is oral sex. And the guy trying to impress with all the overly-pompous language who slips in an insult based on the imagined shape of your forehead in between all of the words he seems to have spent half an hour searching through a thesaurus for? Brilliantly ironic. "Existential insight"? Does he have any fucking clue what he is talking about? Does he believe a small child has existential insight or did he just hear those words somewhere and assume that since he had no clue what they meant, nobody else did either but would think it sounded smart? An astounding outpouring of stupidity like that would drive a weaker man to suicide, C. Why live in such a world?
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Post by pauless on Feb 11, 2009 15:07:33 GMT 2
It's jokers like TJ14 that wind the fuck out of me - using words like 'hence'.
The 'comments' on this review put me in mind of some kind of shameful Victorian debate whether children should be banned from going up chimneys.
It's a proper scandal that the people who make these shows are allowed to exploit 6-year olds as the next gimmick, and the font of 'new' ideas only lazily trickles that far.
'Hence' my ire.......
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Post by Working Mom on Feb 20, 2009 0:55:55 GMT 2
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Hey Curmudgeon- I play Connie's clips for my six year old daughter on YouTube. She loves to watch them and is learning the lyrics. I may download some of the songs so she can sing along- so there's someone out there who enjoys her music. I can't see any indication where she's going to turn into a 16 year old heroin addict. Hopefully her parents will keep her on the right track.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Feb 25, 2009 20:05:23 GMT 2
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Well, "working mom", here's an idea for you; instead of going on Youtube to hunt for clips of some eager to please tot singing Somewhere Over The Rainbow in a "awww, flat but cute" manner, why not just buy the Wizard of Oz on DVD? That way, your kid can grow up with the song the way its meant to be sung, have one of the greatest films ever made as part of her childhood and have a childhood memory of someone who'll still be remembered and relevant in 20 years time?
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Post by Working Mom on Mar 13, 2009 2:08:09 GMT 2
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Hi Curmudgeon- As a matter of fact, 'Wizard of Oz' is one of my favorite all time movies- and I have it on VHS and DVD, as well as CD My kids (6 and 10) LOVE it and have known it since they were babies. I used to worry they would miss out on the magic since they can pretty much watch it on demand, but they never have. I make sure that they see and hear other classic musicals such as 'The King and I', 'Oliver', 'Mary Poppins', 'Meet me in St. Louis', etc. My daugher was 'Dorothy' for two years in a row at Halloween. Judy Garland's talent comes along once in a millenium, and NOBODY can sing 'Over the Rainbow' like her. It's kind of understandable that others like the late, great 'Iz' and Eva Cassidy have done their own, very different interpreations of 'Rainbow'. Just trying to be a clone of the original doesn't cut it.
So I DO expose my kids to all kind of music (except the 'gangter stuff...and really mediocre pop, like Britney Spears) My son is a huge John Mayall fan. But you know what, my daughter LOVES Abba and the movie "Mama Mia", despite my utter disdain for them. (Brings out the 'Curmudgeon' in me, you might say!!)
Aaaaah, I think we all have reason to be cynical and concerned when a fairly talented and extremely cute little tyke becomes famous overnight, especially when creepy Simon Cowell stands to make $$$ on the deal. There are probably dozens of other talented kids with even better voices who didn't have the luck and timing to get on that TV show. Life isn't FAIR! But it IS possible for a loving family to make sure that she's able to stay humble and avoid becoming a train wreck, or dying young like Judy Garland. I remember having to explain to my kids that Judy Garland has been gone for many years, and that the little boy who played "Michael" in Mary Poppins also died young. Little kids can't always grasp that the people they see in films have real lives. I remember being absolutely devastated when Judy Garland died at age 42 in the late '60s.
So...I'm kind of rambling here...but I do appreciate your concerns about Connie, and realize she ain't your cuppa tea. But in a cynical world where the economy is tanking and there is a lot of pain- a sweet little girl who seems to delight in singing is a not such a bad thing!
Take care-
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Post by Sherry Fisher on Apr 19, 2009 19:01:36 GMT 2
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It is clear that you have a lot of hurt in your life and the your world view has become extremly narrow because of that hurt. Not everyone who is allowed to express themselves to be who they are, are being exploited. Some parents don't believe in putting their children in a box. Some parents love their children to the point of allowing them to be who they wish. I for one, feel blessed to have seen and heard this little angel sing. There is beauty everywhere in this world if one can see it. But then beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder. Your review has made that very clear. Not everyone's world has become so dark at the hands of another, but for even those of us who's world had been shatterd, has the choice to stay in that darkness or to step out into the light. When you make that choice for yourself you will see a new and far more beautiful world, and fear will be behind you. Look inside Yourself and work to heal that which seems to be broken and maybe make a new and stronger you.
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