Grannys

Hip new group Toxic Blandness wowed an appreciative crowd at the Grannys a few short days ago with their newest song, Corporate Whores Forever. It was however a night of mixed feelings for the band, as they unexpectedly were beaten to the award for “Best Music Video Involving Anal Sex With a Eunuch” by the girl-group, Depopulation Agenda. “A lot of people thought Depopulation Agenda were yesterday’s girls,  but they’re coming back strong,” opined their manager, Bill “Vaccines” Gates. There was a nostalgic element to their song and video, Just an Old-Fashioned Girl, that may have touched the hearts and minds of the judges, and swung things their way on the night.

To add, one doesn’t like to gossip, but there were even whispers that Toxic Blandness may have actually been beaten down into third place by The Fact Checkers’ song, Ooh Baby, You and Me Got the Truth Coming Out Our Pores. The idea was put forward by some that the video for Toxic Blandness’ Corporate Whores Forever, while on the face of things ticking all the right boxes, was perhaps in truth a little dated in terms of cinematography, and was also maybe lacking a little sharpness in editing. 

There was for instance one moment in the video where a single shot lasted all of 2 seconds before cutting to a new shot. That’s an awful lot to ask of an audience in terms of attention and not falling prey to a sense of restlessness and unease. There are some who consider shots of those kinds of durations and longer so potentially harmful to the well-being of the viewer and the equilibrium of society that such practices should fall broadly within the parameters of hate speech, and be fully treated as such.