Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art
When You Come to the End of a Lollipop
Yes, a real dummy singing.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 27, 2023 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Puppets and Automatons, Junk Food, 1960s
The Roman Holidays
Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 11, 2023 -
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Category: History, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Cartoons, 1970s
How Now, Dow Jones
The weird premises of certain Broadway shows is a theme encountered before on WU. Here's another instance.How Now, Dow Jones, set in Wall Street, follows Kate who announces the Dow Jones numbers. Her fiancé will not marry her until the Dow Jones Industrial Average hits 1,000.
The author William Goldman offers his analysis.
Posted By: Paul - Mon May 22, 2023 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Money, Music, Theater and Stage, 1960s
The Body/Hair Paintings of Xie Rong
The artist's home page.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 26, 2023 -
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Category: Art, Performance Art, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Sticky, Messy, Sloppy, Drippy, Treacly Things, Asia
Smokey Pleacher
His entry at Hillbilly Music Dot Com.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 05, 2023 -
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Category: Hillbillies, Country Bumpkins, Ruralism and Flyover Country, Humor, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Twentieth Century
Woops!
A comedy about life after nuclear Armageddon.Fox cancelled the series in late November. At the time, it was ranked 105th out of 108 weekly shows [54]. Only 10 of the 13 produced episodes were aired; the last was broadcast on December 6th.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 01, 2023 -
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Category: Humor, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Television, War, Atomic Power and Other Nuclear Matters, 1990s
Haysi Fantayzee
Here's a live performance by a New Wave band that has arguably aged less well than many others, such as Blondie and The Cars. The rest of their 13-track playlist is here.Their Wikipedia page says:
Haysi Fantayzee was an avant-garde, new wave pop project emanating from the Blitz Kids street arts scene in London in the early 1980s. The group's music combined reggae, country and electro with political and sociological lyrics couched as nursery rhymes.[3]
Catapulted to stardom by their visual sensibilities, Haysi Fantayzee combined their extreme clothes sense – described[4] as combining white Rasta, tribal chieftain and Dickensian styles – with a quirky musical sound comparable to, but distinct from, other new wave musical pop acts of the era, such as Bow Wow Wow, Adam and the Ants and Bananarama
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 18, 2022 -
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Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, 1980s
HAIRPIN HARMONY, Legendary Broadway Flop
Theater expert Laura Frankos Turtledove says:
[The critics] all commented on the audience fleeing the scene of the crime at intermission. They, alas, were stuck with the second act.
The plot? Of course I can tell you the plot. There’s a baby food manufacturer who is looking for an act he can use to promote his product on a radio show. This guy has a sixteen member all-girl band, the Hairpin Harmonettes, led by his girlfriend and singing triplets. The trio consisted of the real life teenaged Clawson sisters, who billed themselves as Triplets, but actually Barbara was a year older than twins Doris and Dorothy. (These girls were managed by their dad, who got some radio spots for them before and after this disaster. Poor Barbara was professionally renamed “Dawna.” They were named Miss Subways in May 1944, which brings to mind a whacked out alternate version of ON THE TOWN, in which Gabby falls for all three of them…)
Anyway, the band promoter himself is the one who gets the gig (ooh, spoilers!) because he has a fine falsetto. So he wears diapers (for a radio spot? Well, maybe PR photos?) and talks baby talk, thus saving the day for everyone.
Except Harold Orlob.
Source of text.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 02, 2022 -
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Category: Entertainment, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, 1940s
The Electronic Record for Children
Bruce Haack's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 30, 2022 -
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Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Children, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1960s
SSSSSSS, The Movie
The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 12, 2022 -
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Category: Horror, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Reptiles, Snakes, Worms and Other Slithery Things, 1970s
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