R&B singer Chris Brown has been something of a pariah since the Rihanna assault incident earlier this year. He’s back with a new album, and if you take a look at the cover, it will come as no surprise to our readers that it caught my attention:
Yup, that’s Chris Brown with what appears to be a Terminator-esque metal endo-skeletal hand, not to mention the liquid metal T-1000 spelling the name of the album in the lower right hand corner.
But this Chris Brown/Terminator connection is only the beginning. Some investigation revealed more strange connections in the world of romantically connected R&B singers and science fiction movies with robots. Behold, a Venn Diagram:
See how it all comes together, after the jump:
“Human,” the lead single from The Killer’s latest album Day and Age, poses a baffling question:
“Are we human, or are we dancer?”
Many were quick to point out that, although not all humans are dancers, most dancers are, in fact, humans. The two are not mutually exclusive, as this handy Venn diagram illustrates:
Honestly, I've never known a Venn diagram to be anything but handy.
“Human or Dancer” is only one example of the many false dichotomies found in pop music. More logical fallacies, after the jump.
Matthew Wrather leads a panel consisting of Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and eventually Matthew Belinkie to overthink:
- Listener Feedback
- One Man’s Pun (see Venn Diagram)
- The Tenets of National Socialism
- Various Attempts to Kill Hitler (one by Tom Cruise, one by the Highlander)
- Anglo-American Relations
Disclaimer: We are all ANTI-Nazi. Nazis are bad.
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Venerable rock band AC/DC made news recently, not so much for their upcoming studio album Black Ice (coming Oct 20; expect more of the same), but for their exclusive deal with Walmart to sell their new album. Walmart, that most venerable of rock institutions, has (almost) exclusive rights to distributing the record, meaning that online music stores (Amazon.com, iTunes) and even other brick and mortar stores (Best Buy, Target) are left in the cold.
Walmart? Exclusive Deal? Go ahead and cringe for a moment while you think about one of the greatest hard rock acts selling out in a big, big way.
But are AC/DC and Walmart such strange bedfellows? No more so than The Eagles, who also made a similar deal with Walmart for last year’s Long Road Out of Eden. In fact, when you put the three together in an oh-so-dorky Venn diagram, the similarities among all three parties become quite obvious.
Readers: can you think of anything else that lies in the intersection of AC/DC, Walmart, and the Eagles? Are Walmart and corporate greed (not exhaustion of the form) killing rock music? Got any great stories, or heaven forbid, fond memories from the parking lot of a Walmart store/Eagles concert/AC/DC concert? And what’s with that new Walmart logo?
