Gasp! A Music Related Post!

I hate 'ice-breakers'

There are two possible resulting opinions people will have of you after an ice-breaker.

1. Lazy
2. Crazy
   

You either say:

Hi.
My name is Terry.
I like the beach.

or

Hi.
My name is Terry.
Teleportation...definitely teleportation. If I could only have one superpower, it would have to be teleportaion. If i could have the superpowers of one super hero, I would change my answer to Superman's powers...but that's pretty much cheating (flight, super-strength, invulnerability, heat vision (what's that all about anyway...lasers from your eyes? and yeah...I used parentheses inside of parentheses.), & ice breath), but if i was forced to narrow it down to one...teleportation.

All that to say...I hate Bon Jovi

The last ice-breaker in which I was forced to participate the question was: Do you prefer the mountains or the beach. My answer was: I hate Bon Jovi.

I really don't like passionately sung songs with unimportant subject matter. I understand Bon Jovi as an 80's band. Just starting out, Dead or Alive totally makes sense. They were on the edge of completely fading into the gray of glam metal, but they decided that they were going to play their music whether it killed them or made them kings. I totally get that. It's cool, even. BUT when you put Have a Nice Day and Who Says You Can't Go Home on the same album AND release both as singles, that's when I lose all respect for their musical endeavors.

Bon Jovi decided it would be cool to tell people to have a nice day at deafening decibel levels and then tell us that he loves New Jersey. They were wrong. Don't get me wrong, I like New Jersey as much as the next guy, but seriously no one should ever say, "I hijacked a rainbow and crashed into a pot of gold" with a straight face.

The first thing that anyone asks after y0u bash a famous band is: "What bands do YOU like?"
My answers will produce one of the following responses:

• Who's Damien Rice?
• Who's Sufjan Stevens?
• Who's Ryan Adams?
• Why do you musician types always pick obscure artists? They can't be that good if they're not as famous as Bon Jovi.

I hate Bon Jovi