Academy Award-winning composer Hans Zimmer just branched out into unchartered territory.
Fuck, not hans zimmer man 😭 Why did he sell out to us
But on the other hand, our anthem sucks ass. We need a better one so i guess it isn’t all bad?
I wonder how he’s gonna include the part about slavery and misogyny
🎵 …and the bone saw’s red glare
the screams filling the air
the sawing of limbs
and the blood everywhere
O say does that bonesaw in hand yet wave?… 🎵
He does have a very Hans-off approach to writing music.
He evidently does need the money, huh…
Sad to see a great composer who really doesn’t need the money, take money from a brutal suppressive dynasty to make something that will make said dynasty look good
Even Eminem went dick riding and sucking saudi dictatorship for money. Jennifer Lo went stripping in her mid 50s there, + so many othera as well. 99.99999% of Hollowyood celebs and influencers turn into cheap spinless hypocrite sellout money whores when offered a saudi check
didn’t they already sell out by going to Hollywood in the first place…?
Didn’t Vince McMahon sell a bunch of yearly shows to Saudi Arabia? I used to love me some old school wrestling till i realized what a creepo he was
After reading the article it sounds much less oniony. He was hired to make a new arrangement of the existing anthem, not compose a new one.
A new arrangement of an existing anthem is literally what rework means.
I would be down for a national anthem that sounded like a movie trailer. Opens with BWAAAAHMMMMM. Then another. Then narrator in a grisled and wise voice starts in, “We’re not a good country. We’ve done horrible things.” BWAAAAAHMMMMMM!
He gonna reuse the dune theme 😂
I thought the guy was honourable.
We got it wrong. We should make a “non-boycott” list of people who aren’t assholes yet. It would be way shorter, and we would remove people when they become so fucking stupid and arse-licking that they have the idea of reworking the national anthems of shitholes such as saudi arabia.
I sincerely doubt that there is a way to determine which behaviours/beliefs are good or bad. I, for example, doubt that I will get a rating of “good” beyond 75% (educated guess).
Honestly, my standards for “good” behavior for corporations are astoundingly low; just don’t be bigoted, don’t actively wreck the planet, and don’t kill people.
And yet most of them can’t even manage that.
I remember when in 2018 there was an uproar against Trump using that language
President Donald Trump referred to Haiti and African nations as “shithole countries” during a meeting with a bipartisan group of senators
The U.N. human rights office said the comments, if confirmed, were “shocking and shameful” and “racist,”
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I’m not surprised to see Lemmy embrace and adopt Trump’s language, so long as it’s aimed at countries y’all dislike, and so long as it fits y’all’s agenda
Trump didn’t invent this expression. Also any country that still cut heads is a shithole. Have a nice day.
No it’s a dictatorship. The people suffering under that US-armed and US-backed dictatorship don’t need the insults.
It’s a monarchy and the people generally seem to be okay with it on a certain level. I have been told by associates that is mostly because Islam inherently backs a caliphate and thus monarchy is not seen as undesirable.
Completely false. It’s a dictatorship that jails anyone who publicly disagrees with the government. MBS even locked up his own mother for criticizing his jailing of relatives. The people are NOT okay with it, thats like saying it seems like Saddam Hussein is popular because nobody wants to risk their lives speaking out.
And no, there is nothing at all in Islam that supports a king. A caliph is elected.
I have never been to KSA so I’ll refuse to take a position on the nation but Trump is hardly the originator of that phrase. He’s just the classless idiot who used it on mic. If you are actually fluent in English it would be really weird to think this is “Trump’s language”
Racism and bigotry towards: Arabs, Chinese and Russians is still acceptable. They get to decide who is okay and not-okay.
Don’t sweat it. I love Hans Zimmer but after what he did to my car, I can’t wait to hear the bizarre shits that will be the new anthem.
Zimmer was hired by BMW to make acceleration and engine noises for their “i” line of EVs. What they got was the sound of robots whining and having orgasms. I had to disable the sound on mine.
I love Hans Zimmer but after what he did to my car
I thought this comment was about to go in a very different direction
Hopefully he’s a nicer to cars than Frank Zappa.
Edit: Sadly it appears that videos of Frank “playing a car” on The Monkees are harder to find than I suspected.
Never letting Hans borrow my car after he used it as an instrument in an orchestral arrangement of Yankee Doodle Dandy
Zimmer was hired by BMW to make acceleration and engine noises
Huh, I guess Brian Eno wasn’t available.
So, Costco and who else?
I’ve heard Dave Grohl is pretty ok?
https://medium.com/the-monthly/the-foo-fighters-aids-denialism-should-be-on-the-record-6e33666fdc3c
Not exactly. Also recently announced a child from cheating on his wife.
I knew it was too good to be true
I would add Elton John and Tom Hanks, but if I look too deeply they may secretly be British Nazis working for the Queen to overthrow the American government…
It might be an unpopular opinion, but it doesn’t make him a monster. His reasoning for it is that he doesn’t want to cause more harm.
Locking people up isn’t right either but he is entitled to a point of view
Reducing other’s freedoms because they’re bad for you is something I’d consider evil. People should be allowed to make choices for themselves. If you think they’re harmful than you should try to educate people, but you shouldn’t try to make them having a choice (which you were allowed to make) illegal.
Tony Hawk!
Keanu Reeves!
Didn’t he host a show that gave pseudo scientists a platform
Tom Morello is based as hell
Costco made their CEO a multi-billionaire, that means billions of dollars that could have stayed in the customers’ pockets or that could have been redistributed to all employees.
People from countries that just enabled a genocide being hypocritical about Saudi Arabia in the comments.
I really can’t wait for the West to stop being so dominant.
I’m pretty sure youre wrong to think people from the West on Lemmy support Israel. No one on here seems to 😅
I still get a lot of genocide apologia here, but not as bad as Reddit
I am against all war. That means, I am against; the Hamas terrorist group, Israeli government, Russian government, even the Indonesian government,and any other group/government starting wars.
Are you against Ukrainians resisting the Russian invasion? What if the Russians decided to colonize Ukrainian territory and brought their families with them? What if 2-3 generations passed and the Russian settlers had children and grandchildren? Do Ukrainians lose the right to resist and reclaim their land? If not, then why are you against the Palestinian resistance to the illegal occupation and blockade? You support the Papuans right to resist -as do I- but not the Palestinians? You can’t even be consistent. Racism? Willful ignorance? No way to know.
You don’t think saudi arabia also enables genocide? wow.
