Comments on: Computer Music Magazine: Calvin Harris Is A Pervert

By: Mickey Carroll

Mickey Carroll — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:40:39 +0000

This is just some input from a seasoned song writer musician .

I think song writing should be paying attention to world community in regard to
womens struggle with life experience . Example ( Song For My Son ) is a song about children weapons or a son away at war . It is culturally diverse because of it's performance .This song has over 51.000 views and growing on You Tube . I invite you to view it and hope you enjoy

Song For My Son -Preformed by Jackie Jones & Mickey Carroll

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gey8AAlMHDs

Song For My Son – Preformed by FF Bascombe written by Mickey Carroll

http://www.motherj.com/images/MOTHER_J_-_Blue_Dot...

All the best with your creative adventure in music

Love & Music
Mickey

Mickey Carroll
Grammy nominee
Gold Record recipient
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http://www.MickeyCarroll.com

By: Halvin Carris

Halvin Carris — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:56:20 +0000

I think its I-Kissed-a-girl-and-I-liked-it-marketing, its just booooooring!

By: Crysta

Crysta — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:36:52 +0000

This is stupid, it’s just a video. This country is getting more and more pathetic with equal rights ect. It’s only a video, it’s not like they are naked!

By: synthhead

synthhead — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:32:01 +0000

I questioned that, too.

Do you think that they choreographed it carefully to get it that tight, or do you think that they just "dance-synced" along to a tight track?

By: @chaircrusher

@chaircrusher — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:08:03 +0000

The thing that annoyed me about it is that when he was demonstrating the rig, the timing was completely sloppy, but when the track started it was perfectly quantized. I'm more offended by the dishonesty of miming the actual song than having girls in bikinis.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:36:42 +0000

well, at least the ugly ones get to watch ;-p
Oh, and, Calvin's a fellow Scot and Serge was handsome in the same way as… hmmm… not sure how I'd describe his looks: lairy drunk, perhaps? Fantastic guy but sexy like Charles Bukowski, maybe

By: Gordon

Gordon — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:32:17 +0000

well, at least the ugly ones get to watch ;-p

By: violetta

violetta — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:14:30 +0000

Not everybody's handsome and French, though.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:37:07 +0000

All-in-all maybe the 'synth pervert' with the girls and the hit video is in a happier position than the music journalist. Just a thought. Then again, I've always held Serge Gainsbourg as a role model.

By: spark

spark — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:23:02 +0000

it was much better when we synthed in our reclusive dark bedrooms, with a dirt beard, body smell and a nice, round, big, belly. all alone. right?

By: Norcal Emu

Norcal Emu — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:42:41 +0000

Patty-cake!? In the world of Roger Rabbit that's as bad as it gets!

By: Student speed dating

Student speed dating — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:53:16 +0000

I think its very worse than Sodom and Gomorrah!i I think they do not have idea that someone might look at them.

By: gesua

gesua — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:01:47 +0000

English as a second language do you wrong?

By: Cmister

Cmister — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:16:15 +0000

This article is meant to be funny?

By: Pompous Blowhard

Pompous Blowhard — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:01:09 +0000

This is worse than Sodom and Gomorrah! Never in all my born days would I have thought it. A young man arranging to be in the presence of attractive scantily clad young women! What is the world coming to? And then he touches their hands with his! Sweet lord. And what are those young women thinking? Do they not realise someone might look at them? Ye gods and little fishes!

By: synthhead

synthhead — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:48:03 +0000

Agreed – you'll see more suggestiveness in the typical ballet.

For balance, though, maybe Madonna should do something like this with 15 bare-chested hunks……

By: synthhead

synthhead — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:46:04 +0000

Agreed – you'll see more suggestiveness in the typical ballet.

For fairness, though, maybe Madonna should do this with 15 bare-chested hunks……

By: synthhead

synthhead — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:36:49 +0000

From the context, Computer Music seems to consider Harris to be a pervert that happens to be involved with electronic music.

That's different than being a synth freak (someone with a healthy interest in synth porn).

And the answer to your question is, unfortunately, probably yes…..

By: DJ Arbiter

DJ Arbiter — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:28:39 +0000

As a massive fan of Harris's, I can say that he's no more a pervert than any rapper or R&B artist currently in the music industry. While he insinuates being a ladies' man in "All The Girls," and the video for his newest single "Ready For The Weekend" features numerous bikini clad women, it is absolutely over the line of sanity to say that Harris is even 1/10th the pervert of many, MANY others in the music or even electronic industry (Benny Benassi, anyone???).

By: Loretta

Loretta — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:15:22 +0000

Considering he was essentially doing nothing more than literally playing patty-cake with the girls in his "synth" – no groping, no suggestiveness and there's no overly ridiculous shots of butt and cleavage, I fail to see the "sexism" in this more than attractive models being used to advertise anything else.