Good for Peter Gabriel
Feb. 22nd, 2009 04:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trinityvixenHe's not performing at the Oscars tonight. I mean, I don't think "Down to Earth" has a prayer against the infectiously wonderful "Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire, but even if it did, I'd support this.
Because the Oscars are even more bullshit than you think. Something that's always been wrong with the ceremony is the pomp and circumstance. We have fifteen minutes to waste on tributes to [fill in the blank] but the band is already playing the exit music for anyone not sexy enough to merit an acting/directing nod. They've even cut down the number of songs up for Best Song to three, two of which are from Slumdog. It's funny that the same year they say "fuck off and die" to the Best Song category, they actually bother to recognize two songs of non-Western music origin. I think a Spanish song won an Oscar a few years ago, and the Academy trotted out every Spanish-speaking actor they could remember to ask to a) present it, b) sing it, and c) give it the damn award. OMG PEOPLE HAVE MUSIC IN OTHER LANGUAGES, GET OUT OF TOWN!
Except they want to do a medley of songs with Peter Gabriel and the two from Slumdog. Congrats on being the best songs of the year! We love your work! Just, you know, not all of it. Can you remix it to be shorter? Thnxbai. The actors/actresses who have snippets of their work shown are different because they get an entire two hours (OMG THE MOVIES THIS YEAR ARE ALL SOOOOO LOOOOONG) to emote; these songs just ask for, maybe, five minutes of your life. Even it meant cutting down time with the Jackman to see the full song, they should let the songs be performed. (Because if nothing else, a replay of the "Jai Ho" dancing from the end of Slumdog would be fantastic.) So I fully support Peter Gabriel saying, "No, thank you, I'll just sit in the audience and wait not to win and then go get pissed. At least if you remix the Slumdog songs, none of you lity-white, tin-eared fucks will notice because I won't be shoved in the middle like the unwelcome musical interloper I would be."
Because the Oscars are even more bullshit than you think. Something that's always been wrong with the ceremony is the pomp and circumstance. We have fifteen minutes to waste on tributes to [fill in the blank] but the band is already playing the exit music for anyone not sexy enough to merit an acting/directing nod. They've even cut down the number of songs up for Best Song to three, two of which are from Slumdog. It's funny that the same year they say "fuck off and die" to the Best Song category, they actually bother to recognize two songs of non-Western music origin. I think a Spanish song won an Oscar a few years ago, and the Academy trotted out every Spanish-speaking actor they could remember to ask to a) present it, b) sing it, and c) give it the damn award. OMG PEOPLE HAVE MUSIC IN OTHER LANGUAGES, GET OUT OF TOWN!
Except they want to do a medley of songs with Peter Gabriel and the two from Slumdog. Congrats on being the best songs of the year! We love your work! Just, you know, not all of it. Can you remix it to be shorter? Thnxbai. The actors/actresses who have snippets of their work shown are different because they get an entire two hours (OMG THE MOVIES THIS YEAR ARE ALL SOOOOO LOOOOONG) to emote; these songs just ask for, maybe, five minutes of your life. Even it meant cutting down time with the Jackman to see the full song, they should let the songs be performed. (Because if nothing else, a replay of the "Jai Ho" dancing from the end of Slumdog would be fantastic.) So I fully support Peter Gabriel saying, "No, thank you, I'll just sit in the audience and wait not to win and then go get pissed. At least if you remix the Slumdog songs, none of you lity-white, tin-eared fucks will notice because I won't be shoved in the middle like the unwelcome musical interloper I would be."
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