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Date:
6/19/2020 4:51:19 PM
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The murder of the xylophone and ukulele
I can't stand it. I had hoped the fad would have passed by now, but it hasn't. I'm talking about the generic uke + xylophone tunes that seem to plague 2 out of 3 dialog-free videos on facebook. Now, I don't personally have an account, but pretty much everyone else around me does, and so in a way, it makes these songs that much more annoying since I have no control over them. I suspect they make up 1 of 4 genres of royalty-free songs you can add to your video using some pleb editing software, or perhaps something baked right in to facebook. I get it. You want to lighten the mood of your russian dashcam compilation vid, but can we move on? There's plenty of other instrument combos to be ruined. Worse still is that I've heard these tunes in a significant number of "professional" ads, despite the fact that I'm rarely exposed to them. Now I need to look for a video of someone getting beaten with a uke while simultaneously getting their face bashed in to a xylophone. It must exist.
To be fair, there might be something even more annoying still, and that's the also overly-abused and painfully generic 3 chord "hopeful<->optimistic" piano arpeggio variations that gets tacked on to so many ads and speeches. It's the Flo of ad music. No, I take that back. It's far worse than that. It automatically makes me hate the product or message, because it symbolizes that someone within the organization with decision-making power allowed their marketing to use it, and they're fucking gay. Do you want to support an organization that's fucking gay?
