Will.i.am song to blast out from Mars

ITS_A_BADGER

ah so heres the song at last

Tbh i dont think its great :pac:


Also if the thing pauses after you start it, its beacuse the uploader has a countdown on it it will resume in like 20 seconds

snausages

Rhyming 'high' with 'high' and 'far' with 'far', step up from his usual material I guess.

MaxSteele

This would be a great little mind**** to hear from Mars

I'd be happy if Mars was the only place you could hear that Willy track.
God it's woeful.

later12

While I'd still tstick to my earlier opinion that art cannot be objectively good or bad, that is one pretty horrific tune imo.
I don't think the children's vocal accompaniment works at all. Lyrics are totally unimaginative.

And I know the sky might be high
But baby it ain’t really that high
I know that mars might be far,
but baby it ain't really that far.


Perhaps the young 'uns will feel differently about it.

Grayson

later12 wrote: »

I know that mars might be far,
but baby it ain't really that far.

maybe he's talking about the relative orbit. maybe he wrote the first line when mars was on the other side of the sun from us? And the second line when it was closer?

Duggy747

Autotune with orchestra garbage.

Considering they put all sorts of music and sounds on the golden discs in the 2 Voyagers they really could have used something more appropriate.

Then again, he's hip and happening so it benefits NASA to have this sort of public attention, one they always fight to get.

IceFjoem

BrendaN_f wrote: »

what makes them the same (in terms of "goodness") is the fact that there isn't (and can't be) a definition of what constitutes good music

I'd argue that the words 'good' and 'bad' are inappropriate terms for a debate such as this seeing as 'good' and 'bad' are pretty subjective in the first place. So, yes I agree with you insofar as there can't be a definition of "good" music, but I do believe that all music is of varying quality though, and that that quality is absolutely quantifiable (all personal preferences aside :rolleyes:).

Turpentine

later12 wrote: »

Who on Earth (quite literally) gets to decide that Mozart is superior to Will.I.Am?

Any "serious musicians" in classical music that I've ever spoken to seem to roll their eyes when Mozart gets a mention; in fact his works must partially be seen in his day as works of comedy.

Others, perhaps many amateur classical music fans, seem to assume a piece of music is more culturally or intellectually valid by virtue of having been composed by somebody who is (a) dead, (b) dead for the past 200 years (c) traditionally not enjoyed by some of the most energetic and creative people in modern life; shur what would they know about art, heh?

Give it a rest! There's enough arrogant hauteur in the duller human endeavours without bringing it into art or music as well.

And ITS_A_BADGER, I would love if they played the benny hill theme, it might at least show we have a sense of humour.

Maybe they could have just waited a few hundred years and used Will.I.Am's music for some future exploration. Surely it will have stood the test of time as well as Mozart's has for us.

Turpentine

BrendaN_f wrote: »

Madam_X wrote: »

Talent, creativity, originality, hard work.

What makes The Beatles "the same as" Jedward?

what makes them the same (in terms of "goodness") is the fact that there isn't (and can't be) a definition of what constitutes good music

Yeah, but that's like saying someone who eats Pot Noodles, and only Pot Noodles, and has never tried anything but Pot Noodles, has as valid an opinion on food as a Masterchef judge.

IceFjoem

later12 wrote: »

Who on Earth (quite literally) gets to decide that Mozart is superior to Will.I.Am?

I'll do it!

later12 wrote: »

Any "serious musicians" in classical music that I've ever spoken to seem to roll their eyes when Mozart gets a mention; in fact his works must partially be seen in his day as works of comedy.

He certainly wrote music for plenty of comic operas, but there's no way that his music was even partially seen as comedic. There's no reason music always has to 'serious', and Mozart included musical jokes from time to time in his work, but to suggest that Mozart's music was ever seen as anything but brilliant is just incorrect.
Tbh I think you've misinterpreted what the musicians you know were implying with their eye rolling. Generally orchestras have to play the "popular classics" far too frequently (bums on seats etc.) and the players just get sick of hearing them. Mozart's music isn't as striking perhaps as Shostakovich's, and can be quite 'tame' in comparison, and maybe the players you know want something a bit more dramatic, but I seriously doubt that any of those musicians thought that Mozart's music was of inferior quality.

maddragon

I read this as "Will.i.am song to blast out my arse" and I wondered how they knew.

eatchicken

So this thing that will.i.am is being played from Curiosity, what does it mean?

Is it simply just a radio wave beamed back to space (so what, a radio wave came all the way from Mars before, its how we know that the place is all red) or is it some experiement where at one end of curiosity there is a speaker and on the other (the arse end), theres a microphone - to hear what sound is like on mars.

Well if it's the later, it sounds awful!

pragmatic1

Priori wrote: »

So, it's come to this.

The first song Humanity broadcasts on another planet (a very significant cultural milestone if you ask me) and it's by this guy.

Of all the great musical works the human race has produced down the ages, it's a contemporary Rapper/Hip-Hop artist that gets the nod. Money talks I guess.

Please tell me I'm not the only person bothered by this...



[edit] On further reflection I'm not so bothered; there have been many songs "broadcasted" beyond our planet before this one (eg), so I've maybe over reacted a bit! And thanks astrofool, I'm sure I must be wrong about it being the first song being broadcast from another planet.

He might perform raps but he is not a hip hop artist or an mc.

Curly Judge

You can have Jedward
Or you can have this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWnmCu3U09w

Napper Hawkins

Turpentine wrote: »

Maybe they could have just waited a few hundred years and used Will.I.Am's music for some future exploration. Surely it will have stood the test of time as well as Mozart's has for us.

Ha ha ha

IM0

thought you meant this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMwUCmuND8Q