Comments on: OK Go sucks, but NU concert a good move

By: urdumb

urdumb — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 05:00:41 +0000

Hey Sally,

I actually got the chance to meet Damion and talk to him. He’s a cool guy, but OK Go’s music and lyrics aren’t very deep. “GETGETGETGETGET OVER IT”? If that’s your definition of insight, I’m worried.

By: Sally

Sally — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:29:16 +0000

First off, OK Go used to be the house band of NPR’s This American Life. The lead singer has also written widely distributed political essays and his articles on the music industry’s failing fight against piracy via DRM have been published in the New York Times. Not to mention again his degree in semiotics from Brown. OK Go’s latest album is actually an exploration of the darkness of the modern world, according to Kulash himself.Just because you’ve seen 1 music video and heard 1 song doesn’t mean you can view an entire band’s music as superficial. “Please kill yourself” just goes to show that you have nothing intelligent to say and so you respond like a baby.

By: urdumb

urdumb — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:27:41 +0000

Yeah man, Ben Folds is so quality. Not tacky at all.

By: urdumb

urdumb — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:27:02 +0000

Are you serious? OK Go is “deep and insightful”?!?!?

Please kill yourself.

By: Sally

Sally — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:25:44 +0000

You clearly haven’t heard much of OK Go. “You’re So Damn Hot” is one if their fun songs, but the bulk of what they write is very deep and insightful. In fact, the lead singer has a degree in semiotics (a field centered on symbolism) from Brown university. The fact that other bands struggle does not deter in any way from the fact that OK Go is smart enough to take advantage of the internet- it’s immature and obnoxious of you to think that. Your whole piece is a babyish rant on why your favorite bands are better. You need to grow up.

By: clare

clare — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:10:28 +0000

OK Go are supposed to be fun. They clearly aren’t striving to be this prolific band that uses screw drivers in a way no one had even considered. Think about it, where would we be without “Vogue,” “Stayin’ Alive,” or “California Girls”?

Also, I don’t think it’s fair to make it seem like exploited the internet for their own personal gain. Most bands are getting their sound heard this way. Would the Arctic Monkeys be filling up venues across continents without the internet?

By: Paul Schrodt

Paul Schrodt — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:31:41 +0000

So you “loath” (misspelling not mine) OK Go, but you like Justice’s tacky I [heart] the ’80s stunt? I’m very, very confused. You’re wonderful, Patrick, but c’mon, this post is written with an incredible amount of condescension and smugness (as much as you try to use “hipster” self-deprecatingly). As in, “OK Go is perfectly awful. But at least it’ll give everyone else on campus something to do while I sit at home watching Bergman…” Oh yeah, and a quick Facebook search shows that you might be wrong entirely: A campus devoted to The Beatles (#2), Radiohead (#3) and Ben Folds (#5) is more likely to listen to Wilco than a flash-in-the-pan MTV pop novelty act, no?

By: Scott Olstad

Scott Olstad — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:12:36 +0000

I like Ok Go. I think their music is fun. I don’t care if their music is repetitive or shallow (which it is), because I have a good time listening to it. I can’t wait for the show.

By: John

John — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:43:14 +0000

Crystal Castles is mind poison. After watching their set at Metric, I can’t imagine how anyone could listen to them and not want to perform self-castration with a rusted pair of gardening shears.