No, before you start arguing with me about the benefits of whatever aspects of culture you are fanatically in love with, I actually mean the English New Romantic pop group of the 1980's (thank you Wikipedia).
I don't know if any of you have been to a Woolworths recently, but it is (or at least should be) very well known that they have some of the world's CRAPPIEST music (with a few gems tossed in I should add) on loop. Now this doesn't make for a very gratifying shopping experience, and an even less gratifying task to work there. A lot of the songs I (dunno about other staff) have managed to mentally blot out thankfully. Except one...
This song (which some who are less eloquent and dignified than I might call utter bullshit fronted by a drug addled nancy boy) is Karma Chameleon by Culture Club. Hopefully the post title will make a bit more sense now. Not only is this a bad song in the way that it INCESSENTLY STICKS IN YOUR F***ING HEAD, but it is not a very good song to start with. Yes, I know it charted at #1 in 1984, but in fairness it was competing against performers like Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson (before he was white, obviously). Also, I think we've established that people living in the 80's were idiotic in most respects.
A key thing that can say how good or bad a song is, in my opinion, is the film clip. Oh dear... The description from Wikipedia, and I quote:
"The Karma Chameleon music video is set in Mississippi in 1870, according to caption. It depicts people in colourful costume, including dancers in "red, gold and green", waiting on a riverbank. Boy George is dressed in even more colourful and flamboyant costume and is depicted singing the title song. A pickpocket is seen wandering through the crowd. A riverboat,
The Chameleon, arrives and people board. A game of cards takes place, with Boy George still singing in the background. The pickpocket is discovered cheating and is forced to walk the plank."
I'm sorry, WHAT?!?! People waiting for a riverboat in colourful costumes in 1870's American south. Oh, GREAT combination there. Also, once the word "flamboyant" is used, you can be pretty much assured that you're not gunna be looking at a winner. Also, he's a pickpocket, so he probably got rich from that, and hasn't gotten much education (I mean, it IS the 1870's). Why, for starters, would you invite him to play a game of poker on your expensive riverboat, and then force him overboard when he cheats? What, is he going to make a daring break all of a sudden? The poor bastard probably can't even swim. "Yay!! So long random guy that we don't really know all that well but are quite willing to possibly kill in a fit of flamboyant mob justice"
The bad song aside, I think if you take away the lyrics and melody of the song while watching the video clip, it wouldn't be to bad. If it weren't for this lovely gentlemen (at least, I THINK) here:
Boy fucking George. I don't know what the hell he did in a past life, but it must have been pretty bad. Or maybe it was we all did in a past life, because looking at him is BURNING MY GOD DAMN EYES OUT!!! To be fair to him though, it's no wonder he created such a bad song, as he WAS on drugs. Heavily. Oh, hang on, he didn't even write it. So he has no excuse. BAD! BAD BOY GEORGE.
Anyways, that's it. Rant over. If you disagree with me, comment if you want. I will take your comments on board. And then more then likely, disregard them completely if they are Culture Club's side :P
Peace out everyone,
Dom
PS: Boy George? This is for you:
