movie quote/song lyric status updates

[BlaqueKatt]

I only hate them if the give no reference as to what it is.

If you quote something, use quotation marks, and or give a source.

I don't watch much television, or movies, and my music selection isn't "top 40"(well not from this decade anyway), so when someone posts something that out of context is horrifying for them(violent or suicidal depression like), I usually ask what's up? can I help? They then spend about 20 minutes berating me for not psychically knowing "it's only a line from the best movie/tv show/song evar111!!!" And then proceed to discuss said movie/show/song with other commentors, and never actually MENTION what the heck it is. It's.....aggravating. And one of the reasons I spend more time on twitter and maybe check FB once every few days.

[anakhouri]

Hmmm, I don't think I've ever run into that on Facebook. Sometimes people post quotes but my friends usually put quotation marks around it, or sometimes it's a lyric from some popular song (I usually listen to NPR at home but my son loves pop music so we listen to the pop station in the car). That's weird people would do that and then be asses about it. I even know people who haven't seen Star Wars, but I'm not going to tear them down because of that. People watch/read/listen to different stuff.

[Andara Bledin]

I've actually done lyrics status updates...

But I preface each line with a note (♫♪) to show it's singing. And I include a link back to the song or the artist's page.

[Eisa]

I post song lyric statuses all the time, but they're in quotes.

And even if someone posted like "are you okay," well, I'm not just quoting that bit if it's sad or whatever because I like the song, so...

[Mr Hero]

A very recent FB had me quoting this line without quotation marks:

I expected the Rocky Mountains to be a little rockier than this.

No one seemed to have a problem with it.

[Andara Bledin]

That's because your status was something funny.

This is mostly about statuses that would cause friends or acquaintances to be concerned, then having their concern blown off with "it's just a quote, I can't believe you don't know it, it's from the most awesomest thing evar!" then going on to not even state what that awesome thing even is.

[mikoyan29]

I'm guilty of that but most of my song quotes are fairly well known songs....

[Nekojin]

Something that you think is well-known can be completely foreign to someone who lives a different lifestyle. I was flabbergasted when I found out that my boss was completely unfamiliar with Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple.

[bex1218]

I actually did that once. A friend who didn't know the song went "go on!" and I said it was a lyric. But we had a good laugh.

[BlaqueKatt]

I'm guilty of that but most of my song quotes are fairly well known songs....

Something that you think is well-known can be completely foreign to someone who lives a different lifestyle.

Yup I'll list a few bands that you can't turn on the radio station I listen to without hearing at least one of them, I would consider them well known, I'm wiling to bet most people here have never heard of most, if not all, of them(they're signed, and tour internationally)

Hollywood Undead
In this Moment
NonPoint
Bobaflex
Shinedown
VolBeat
Wayland
Halestorm
Royal Bliss(the singer was actually on the voice)
American Fangs
Firewater(been around for 17 years, 7 studio albums)

[Andara Bledin]

Hollywood Undead
In this Moment
NonPoint
Bobaflex
Shinedown
VolBeat
Wayland
Halestorm
Royal Bliss(the singer was actually on the voice)
American Fangs
Firewater(been around for 17 years, 7 studio albums)

I... Think I've heard of 2 of those bands. And I couldn't name a single song they've done or recognize them by any. >_<

Your radio is not everybody's radio, and some people don't turn on the radio at all. I do CDs and Pandora/Grooveshark pretty much exclusively.

[crashhelmet]

Yup I'll list a few bands that you can't turn on the radio station I listen to without hearing at least one of them, I would consider them well known, I'm wiling to bet most people here have never heard of most, if not all, of them(they're signed, and tour internationally)

Hollywood Undead
In this Moment
NonPoint
Bobaflex
Shinedown
VolBeat
Wayland
Halestorm
Royal Bliss(the singer was actually on the voice)
American Fangs
Firewater(been around for 17 years, 7 studio albums)

NonPoint is really big here, but they seem like they're trying too hard to be SoaD.

Shinedown is going to be in concert here soon with Papa Roach as one of their opening acts. I always thought it would be the other way around.

I'm surprised no one turned around for Neal Middleton on Season 2. A friend of mine made it all the way to the finals but lost that season. It was a competitive season.

[Ginger Tea]

Not a sausage on any of those bands, but I also don't listen to radio or have a TV, all new music I get is via random YouTube music videos, possibly from a side bar after a specific search, those though end up being songs from the same era of a 90's tail end post grunge band I was looking for.

And even if I was big on radio, well UK radio is not the same as American radio or anywhere in Europe, the station of choice at work was Kiss FM, so if it wasn't clubbing music, it wasn't played, bohemian rhapsody could make it back to Christmas number one, but unless there was a dance mix, it would not get played.

which segues into
Sometimes they are the first link in a lyric chain, Rhapsody gets a lot of those.

I by association was on the receiving end of a text message that turned out to be a quote from "I believe in a thing called love." but I never paid attention to the lyrics at the time and tbh was not a fan so didn't pick up on the line when he showed me a text he sent to a girl he was semi teaching to drive, given his past record with being a bit too odd, she may not have seen it as a song quote but more about him and her and driving, perhaps hinting towards more, I would have to Google the lyrics to be sure.

My most recent status update was in Korean, I was mucking about with Google translate and having already gotten Ginger Tea in the more westernised Japanese script (to read aloud as jinja te not to be a translation) I managed to get the jin and tea part down (going by the audio cues) but jer and jah were failing to bring up a suitable Hangul option, till I struck the idea of pasting the Japanese in and translating to Korean all I had to do was take off a - symbol and it worked, so I C+P'd that right into farce book and it's remained ignored, which I like, no one even questioned my status change to divorced seeing as I've not had a relationship for over a decade.

[bex1218]

Radio station here only plays like 2 bands from that list. Shinedown and Volbeat. Its typically:

Shinedown
Volbeat
Papa Roach
Avenged Sevenfold
Three Days Grace
Nirvana
POD
Five Finger Death Punch
Green Day
Offspring


My roommate has satellite radio, for now, and they play random bands all the time that just have one hit and they are done.

[crashhelmet]

Our rock station is pretty similar except you need to throw in a seriously overplayed Metallica song in after every 3rd or 4th song.