1: What is your favorite band? Uhh... Culcha Candela(Monsta)

2: Who is your favorite pop artist? ummm.... Amy MAcdonald, Taylor Swift.... Let's see...

3: Who is your favorite rapper? Sorry, but I believe that rap is the worst music ever invented. (I only like two songs by Flo Rida, does that count?)

4: What is your favorite song by the band, pop artist,and rapper. Monsta, This is the Life, Speak Now, Right Round

TOP YOU CRAZY POST!!!!!

A music questionnaire about music? Call the Department of Redundancy Department! 

As requested, I shall take the music questionarre about music.  Because music is amazing becasuse it's music.  Because...  yeah.  :)

1: What is your favorite band?  Coldplay, possibly. Or Grateful Dead.  Or DBT.  Just joking.  Not DBT.  Moving on...  Uhmmm....  

2: Who is your favorite pop artist?  Uhmmm...  Taylor Swift?  I be not pop-ish.  

3: Who is your favorite rapper?  Tom Felton.  He rapped.  Kind of.  In a British way.  :)

4: What is your favorite song by the band, pop artist,and rapper.  ALL OF THEM.  For all of them.  :)

In Which TNO Does Something FOR SCIENCE!!

or, How does a general shunning of popular music 'artists' for the more specialized world of musical theater translate when applied to questionaires about popular music?

(I'm a bit sleep deprived, pardon my ramblings) 

1: What is your favorite band?

Hmmmm Oingo Boingo is the only one I really listen to on anything resembling a regular basis. And even then only a couple of songs, and because Danny Elfman is second only to Stephen Sondheim in terms of muscial epicness and ear-worm-y-ness. Though DE has a far superior voice to SS, I will admit, Sondheim's singing voice is passable but nothing special.

Really though, I do prefer my music with a bit of an actual storyline and character to go along with it, hence the musical theatre thing. It adds so much depth to the lyric, I was actually just discussing this with Mary Liz via Facebook messaging, she told me that most people only listen to a new song an average of three times before loosing interest again. (How anyone can enjoy music with such brevity is beyond me, but to each his own, right?) Anyway she said that was because there's not much other than surface value, and I am inclined to agree about THAT, because there is only so much meaning you can wrestle out of mainstream music these days. It's boring, quite frankly. Probably that's part of the reason 99% of highschoolers today don't like Shakespeare, they're not used to extracting meaning... 

2: Who is your favorite pop artist?

EW pop get it off get it off.

I suppose... Elton John and Tim Rice have written a handful of pop operas together (see: Aida, mainly), so we'll go with them.

3: Who is your favorite rapper?

HAHAHAHA

Um. For the purpose of clarity, let it be known that I identify rap as "songs without a discernable tune".

Using this definition, there are a grand total of... um... two raps that I enjoy, and one of them sort of has a tune in that it's written in iambic meter so it sort of lilts no matter how straight one tries to sing it.

They are:

Rock Island (The Music Man) [also I have literally NO IDEA why it's called Rock Island, but it is. It's the number at the beginning with all the salesmen on the train. I also have the whole thing memorized (the version from the 1962 movie anyway), and can do it without asphyxiating, much to the amazment of my musical theatre class.]

The Witch's part in Prologue: Into the Woods (Into the Woods) ["your father cried/your mother died/when for extra measure/I admit it was a pleasure/I said sorry I'm still not mollified..."]

Which I guess makes my favourite rappers... or writers of rap, anyway... Meredith Willson and Stephen Sondheim.

4: What is your favorite song by the band, pop artist,and rapper.

a. Dead Man's Party (1985 album of the same name)

b. I Know the Truth (as sung by Sherie Rene Scott in the OBCR of Aida)

c. We'll go with Rock Island/Meredith Willson, 'cause it's longer and more of a "traditional" rap (ie the only accompaniment is train sounds, as opposed to the creepy chords/'waa... mwawaaaa...' bits in P:ItW)