And the award for the best shade throwing goes to...

[Scooter]

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[Sue U]

[ex-khobar Andy]

It might help if I had some clue who that is in Sue's post.

[Big RR]

It's Mariah Carey, and a while back her "I don't know her" became an internet meme. I don't recall the actual specifics, but it was part of a feud between her and another singer of similar stature.

[Sue U]

It's Mariah Carey, and a while back her "I don't know her" became an internet meme. I don't recall the actual specifics, but it was part of a feud between her and another singer of similar stature.

It was Mariah's epic diss of J Lo.

[Scooter]

[rubato]

It's Mariah Carey, and a while back her "I don't know her" became an internet meme. I don't recall the actual specifics, but it was part of a feud between her and another singer of similar stature.

It was Mariah's epic diss of J Lo.

If both of them were erased from the history of music forever and they never existed it would not even make a ripple in the arts. WGAF? Temperamental twats create their own negative space.

yrs,
rubato

[BoSoxGal]

Temperamental twats create their own negative space.

yrs,
rubato

[Scooter]

[Sue U]

It was Mariah's epic diss of J Lo.

If both of them were erased from the history of music forever and they never existed it would not even make a ripple in the arts. WGAF? Temperamental twats create their own negative space.

yrs,
rubato

Not even make a ripple? Mariah Carey has had 19 singles reach #1 on the charts -- which is only one behind the Beatles --and she's still working. And if nothing else, for one song alone, she will be immortal:

Ever since its release, "All I Want for Christmas Is You" has been met with universal critical acclaim, with The New Yorker describing it as "one of the few worthy modern additions to the holiday canon".[1] It is Carey's biggest international success, topping the charts in twenty-six countries including Australia, Canada, France and Germany.[2] In 2019, it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time, 25 years after its original release, thus breaking several records, including the longest trip to number one.[3] The following year, it also topped the charts in the United Kingdom for the first time, spending a record 69 weeks in its top 40 prior to reaching number one.[4] With an estimated sales of over 17 million copies, it is the best-selling Christmas single by a female artist and one of the best-selling singles of all time.[5] By 2017, it had reportedly earned $60 million in royalties.[6]

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With "All I Want For Christmas Is You", Carey extended her record of having the most number-one songs for a solo artist on the Hot 100 with nineteen and Carey achieved a record-extending 80th week at number-one on the Hot 100.[3] Although released in 1994, "All I Want for Christmas Is You" was the last number-one single of the 2010s decade,[34] as well as the first number-one of the 2020s decade, spending a third week atop the Hot 100 chart dated January 4, 2020,[35] and in doing so, Carey became the first artist in history to top the chart in four separate decades: 1990s, 2000s, 2010s & 2020s chart.[35] .... As of the issue dated December 26, 2020, it has topped the Billboard Holiday 100 chart for a record-extending 44 cumulative weeks, of the chart's 49 total weeks since the list launched in 2011; it has topped the tally for 29 consecutive weeks, dating to the start of the 2015-2016 holiday season.[37] No other song has spent more than two weeks at No. 1 on the Holiday 100 since the chart's launch in 2011.[35][38]

Why do you hate Christmas, rubato?

[BoSoxGal]

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Please tell me this is a spoof.

[Scooter]

Alas, no.

[Big RR]

Sue--I like Christmas, even Christmas music, but I can't stand that song. Sure, it beats much of the other modern stuff (like Duck Dynasty Christmas), but so what? If I never heard it again, it would be too soon.

[Crackpot]

To be fair it’s marginally more tolerable than “last Christmas”

[ex-khobar Andy]

In 2019 US auto sales were 17.1 million. The 'Big Three' US manufacturers accounted for 7.7 million of those. (Toyota/Lexus just beat out Chrysler for third place in the overall table.). And it was the Big Three who came to Biden's announcement.

Tesla does not issue figures for its US sales. Worldwide they were at 370,000 - so even making some generous assumptions about what portion of their sales are in USA, they have to be in Mazda - Audi - Mitsubishi territory in terms of market penetration.

Don't get me wrong: I appreciate what Elon Musk and his company are doing to the eventual direction of the car market. The fact that the man is obviously an industrial strength asshole has little to do with it.

[Sue U]

Sue--I like Christmas, even Christmas music, but I can't stand that song. Sure, it beats much of the other modern stuff (like Duck Dynasty Christmas), but so what? If I never heard it again, it would be too soon.

Well you can't dispute gusty buses, but your opinion is at some considerable variance with that of the entire human population of Earth. I can see why the song is such a ginormous hit -- a simple repetitive melody with a monster hook. In its concept, structure, arrangement and to some extent its recording, I hear it harkening back to Phil Spector hits of the 60s. It's actually one of my favorite Christmas songs; also, I like any music that makes people like music, and the run-up to Christmas is a music-intensive time of year.