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Post by skaschep on Oct 20, 2016 14:56:59 GMT -5
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Post by smokeyvera on Oct 20, 2016 15:29:47 GMT -5
Checked out the metacritic reviews. There was more mediocre or critical reviews than favorable reviews. Laverne Cox was taking many hits.
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Post by adamrocks on Oct 20, 2016 15:32:16 GMT -5
TALCvids @talcvids 2m2 minutes ago
Let's do the time warp again! Rocky Horror remake rocks federalnewsradio.com/entertainment-news/2016/10/lets-do-the-time-warp-again-rocky-horror-remake-rocks/ … via @fednewsradio Adam Lambert “Hot Patootie”, a high point
twitter.com/TALCvids/status/789200871707914241
Let’s do the time warp again! Rocky Horror remake rocks
By WAYNE PARRY
October 20, 2016 1:36 pm
Various Artists “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” soundtrack (Lou Adler’s Ode Sounds & Visuals)
Let’s do the time warp again!
More than 40 years after one of the great cult films of all time introduced an unsuspecting public to sweet transvestites, a mad scientist making an erotic Frankenstein creature, and a highly repressed yet oversexed Brad and Janet, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is back, this time as a TV remake Thursday on Fox.
It still bristles with all the weirdness and gender-bending that made the 1975 film a great excuse to party, then dress up in character and go to a midnight showing where you not only watched the show, you threw rice at the screen, sprayed water on fellow theatergoers, and shouted lines back and forth to the actors.
The show launched Tim Curry to stardom as Dr. Frank N. Furter, the “sweet transvestite from transsexual Transylvania.” Curry is back — but this time as the narrator.
His signature role this time out is played by Laverne Cox of “Orange Is The New Black,” herself a transgender performer. She approaches the role a (tiny) bit more subdued than did Curry; the sight (or the very idea) of a horny transgender scientist was a lot more jarring 40 years ago then it is now.
Adam Lambert, who some feel would have made an equally swell Frank N. Furter, instead plays Eddie, the biker Elvis-wannabe first played by a then virtually unknown Meat Loaf. “Hot Patootie” is a high point here, as is “Time Warp,” which still provides as good an excuse to dance around stupidly as it did when Gerald Ford was president.
Bottom line: The re-done songs rock, the characters are memorable, and Rocky Horror is still good, dirty fun.
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Post by adamrocks on Oct 20, 2016 15:38:40 GMT -5
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Post by skaschep on Oct 20, 2016 15:41:28 GMT -5
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Post by skaschep on Oct 20, 2016 15:41:58 GMT -5
This is Canada by the way! Also tonight at 8?
City @city_tv
.@lavernecox, @victoriajustice and @adamlambert star in the special television event of #TheRockyHorrorPictureShow TONIGHT at 8 on @city_tv
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Post by adamrocks on Oct 20, 2016 15:45:55 GMT -5
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Post by adamrocks on Oct 20, 2016 16:02:43 GMT -5
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Post by skaschep on Oct 20, 2016 16:05:06 GMT -5
Adam Lambert | Back to index | YouTube stats | 2016-10-20, 16:50 EDT
Main | Countries
Selection: Reset | iTunes · Streaming | No small countries · No dupes · Show 24h diffs | Anglophone · Latin America · Mainland Europe · Africa/Middle East · Asia
Science Fiction / Double Feature
iTunes:
#43 New Zealand
#76 Malaysia
#94 Singapore
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Post by katycake on Oct 20, 2016 16:12:33 GMT -5
I'm gonna sound like a wierdo, but is it possible that someone's voice, specifically someone's singing voice, triggeres the same hormones in the brains that make us feel like we're in love? There are other "weirdos" like you, it seems. There have been studies about listeners' brain responses to music. www.bbc.com/news/health-12135590Dopamine increases in response to other stimuli such as food and money.
It is known to produce a feel-good state in response to certain tangible stimulants - from eating sweets to taking cocaine.
Dopamine is also associated with less tangible stimuli - such as being in love.
In this study, levels of dopamine were found to be up to 9% higher when volunteers were listening to music they enjoyed.
The report authors say it's significant in proving that humans obtain pleasure from music - an abstract reward - that is comparable with the pleasure obtained from more basic biological stimuli.
Music psychologist, Dr Vicky Williamson from Goldsmiths College, University of London welcomed the paper. She said the research didn't answer why music was so important to humans - but proved that it was.
"This paper shows that music is inextricably linked with our deepest reward systems."Why Adam's voice, in particular, produces this feel good response I can only speculate on. Factors that I imagine are involved include: 1. What types of music and voices you listened to in your formative years growing up, which programmed the brain to seek out familiar or similar sounding music/voices 2. The frequencies and harmonics that produce a natural sympathetic vibration in your body 3. Pleasurable past experiences with Adam where your brain produced pleasure hormones because of his looks, his personality, his life story, his appearance on TV, the thrill of going to a live concert and sharing that experience with friends and strangers in the audience. Those get tied to the sounds you heard, so you are conditioned to respond with the release of hormones when you hear that particular voice 4. The fact that the harmonics and frequency responses, the resonance in Adam's voice are of such a balance, purity, clarity, consistency that your brain LIKES the sound. By this I mean, Adam was trained to produce a sound that has been highly desirable in singers for hundreds and hundreds of years. Why do classical singers train to produce this type of sound? Because it has worked with audiences around the globe for centuries. There has to be something intrinsic in that type of voice that is pleasurable, just like we find certain aromas and tastes pleasurable. What do y'all think? I don't know which one is me, but it reassures me that I'm not THAT crazy...  So thanks for that! |
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So thanks for that!