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JeromeBlack:
It must be a Nigerian thing where people cannot give a simple analysis.

Deadpool and Antman are action comedies. You should understand that you are biased naturally against these movies if you don't like comedy. So before you rate such movies, you should consider your bias.

Then we also have the issue of people comparing infinity war to uphrade. Really?

Honestly, it's shocking to say the least. Guaranteed that Upgrade is a very intelligent movie which punched above its weight, but to rate it above or compare it with Avengers Infinity War is the zenith of comedy.

okooloyun1:
Yee! And just downloaded the movie.

You may like it. Don't be worried about my rating. Someone rated it highly on this thread, so you may end up loving it.

Support The Girls. 3/10.


I think I've lost the Midas touch when selecting good movies. Two shitty movies back to back. WTF is wrong with me?

Superfly. 4/10


Another typical cliche uninspiring black American gangster/narcotics movie that lacks substance. Same 'ol shyt, just a different name. Waste of my time and MB.

JeromeBlack:
Lol.....you love stripper music? You Nasty.

I can't even listen to Cardi B speak. Talkless of rap.


Nicki Minaj and her plastic booty and fake hair. Nicki Minaj is a product and not an artist. She raps with a fake accent.

The worst is that if you listen to her songs, you start seeing that there is no consistency in quality. A few that are very good and many that are utterly ridiculous. Typical of artists that are packaged with formulaic sounds.

You, sir, deserve a national medal for this undiluted truth. Truer words have never been spoken. The only sensible song of Nicki I've heard is Grand Piano. I can count her few good songs on one hand. Wack, fakeass, rapper wannabe.

The day a friend said Nicki is the best female rapper of all time, this was my reply to him.

JeromeBlack:
That song was the shyt! The video, the concept, the beat......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGqdIPer-ms

You're right, no wonder the song sounds shitty.

gustav25:
You don't mean it !! Anyway ,join me and sing " Walk it like I talk it "

My worst song of the year.

Kaycee7:
The way they were shitting on Black Panther while gloryfing Acrimony. I didn't need anybody to tell me it would be a waste of time and energy to reply such people

Best decision, same thing I did and saved myself the headache.

Bryan12:
You don produce movie b4?

JeromeBlack:


So Migos is trashy but Nicki Minaj and Cardi B are trash

You just dey frown over a non-existing issue. Waste of anger emoticon.

How did you infer that conclusion from my post? I was only suggesting what might be the reason he seem to dislike Migos but love that particular song of them.

oyetpel:
Me too, but i can't get enough of Motorsport, i don't know why.

Maybe because of the featured Cardi B and Nicki Minaj

newjosboy:
As for the emboldened, I can skip all tgeir songs as ALL OF THEM are TRASHY AND BULLSHYT.

If anybody mistakenly send any of their trashy songs to my phone or laptop, I'll knock his ass out. I hate all their songs with passion!!

JeromeBlack:


I didnt see this comment earlier. Anyway, I don't listen to Ed Sheeran (Although, I like Terry Apala's version of "shape of you" )

Upon research, Ed Sheeran has written at least 30 songs for other artists. He has written for Eminem, James Blunt, Justin Bieber and Robbie Williams
http://www.songfacts.com/category-songs_written_by_ed_sheeran.php

So, Ed Sheeran has written for some of the biggest artists in the world


Furthermore, you should consider that Ed Sheeran is younger in the game and so, has had less time in his career than Sia to write songs.
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Beorn, no vex oo! I no sabi music reach you.

I am just spoiling for argument lol.

LOL. Me no sabi music at all, it's just that the very few I like, I'm passionate about them. I've never downgraded Ed's talent either as a songwriter or imperious vocalist. I'm a huge fan of Ed and it might surprise you to know that between Ed and Sia, Ed edges it for me. I also know Ed is much younger and started later than Sia in the music industry, I was only trying to defend Sia who the guy was trying to disparage or dismiss her talent. The debate was never about Ed. Ed's wizardry in music is not in doubt.

oyetpel:
I wanted to draw your attention to this thread, didn't know you already know about.

That stinker when you are reading that thread, no be here.

I was too ashamed to comment on the thread. That's how bad it was.

JeromeBlack:
Acrimony ke?

When there is Avengers, Black Panther ati Quiet Place?

Welcome to Nigeria Nairaland.

Juzec:
Sia is a musical goddess when it comes to beautiful and meaningful lyrics. She has done so many OST for many movies.
Iamj comparison of Sia's creativity in song writing to Rihanna's creativity is just plain lame. They not in the same class when it comes to song writing. I think Sia should be compared with peeps like Ed sheeran, Florence the machine, the band perry, Lana del rey, Adele. Even Sara Bareilles is a better song writer self than Rihanna

Rihanna and quality songwriting shouldn't even be in the same sentence.

https://www.nairaland.com/4700993/whats-favourite-movie-far-year

On the thread above, Nairalanders voted Acrimony as the best movie this year. Typical Nigerians.

KoiceReloaded:
I tire for am. The confident way he's pulling lies out of his ass and passing them off as facts would fool anyone that doesn't know any better. Right now, I can't tell if he's delusional or just deliberately trying to piss us off.

The latter, bro. Judging from his well-known antecedents on the Romance Section, on the Big Brother Naija thread and practically every thread he posts on, the emboldened is the simple truth.

KoiceReloaded:
Your level of oblivion is startling. Before Rihanna became a superstar (thanks largely to Jay-Z), Sia had written songs for top artistes like Beyonce and Alicia Keys to name a few. She was well sort-after songwriter. She has always had a beautiful voice, but somehow, never been able to break into international limelight as a singer till 2013.

This is how it happened: David Guetta (elite French DJ) wanted to do a collabo with Alicia Keys, and contracted Sia to write Titanium. Sia complied, but also sent a demo of herself performing Titanium. When he heard it, David is so wowed by her voice that he decided to replace Alicia Keys with her. That's how the hit single "Titanium" was born. The popularity of the hit smashed her into international recognition. Taking advantage of her new found fame, she released "1000 form of fear" shortly. An instant hit as you can imagine. The album had hits like Chandelier, Big girls don't cry, and Elastic heart and was nominated 4 times at the 2015 Grammy awards.

So, as you can see, your fallacious claims that Sia coasted to stardom by clutching at Rihanna's coattails were laughable. Sia was a well known songwriter long before she became an elite singer. She's super-talented. Rihanna by contrast, doesn't really have any talent saved for her voice. She can't write for sh*t, and if not for Jay Z, she probably would have become a high class hooker for tourist in her home country of Barbados.


As for her never winning a grammies, she will soon, just you wait. She came very close in 2015 and 2017. She's working on her next studio album, and I'm pretty confident that's the one that will finally shut people that don't know sh*t about her up for good.

If I'd seen that post of his you highlighted, I wouldn't have wasted time posting my rejoinders to his posts. I'm officially done with this debate, it's embarrassing arguing with someone with such reasoning.

iamJ:
Ed Sheeran has written more songs for people, his entire albums all tracks can be played first to last without skipping, if we want to use the way you look to Sia to judge that means Ed is a god then

Sia is below Rihanna in everything, even Sia herself wouldn't ulter this abomination that you and your partner is hinting

First of all, this debate was never about Ed Sheeran. I brought up the songs she had written for other artistes because you're downgrading her ingenuity and saying most of her songs were awful. So, I simply showed you how much top artistes valued this AWFUL musician. Ed is another musical rabbi I don't ever joke with. I can never downgrade his brilliance. Never!!

Secondly, I disagree with you that ALL Ed Sheeran's songs can be played without skipping. Some might do it, but not all. I can't do it, some others can. There are also people who can't skip any of Migos' songs but I find all their songs trashy. So, different tastes for different folks.

Thirdly, I was never debating RiRi and Sia who's better, it's subjective and I'll leave it to people's choices. But, saying Sia is below Rihanna in EVERYTHING smacks of epic unrefined ignorance on shocking level.

Lastly, go and edit that lie that Ed has written more songs PRESENTLY than Sia. A faker lie has never been told in all my time on earth. The link I gave you contained up to 50 artistes with over 70 songs written by the genius, Sia. Iamj, I'll deactivate my account right now if Ed has achieved close to that feat.

I'm putting this assignment out to anyone on this planet, get me songs written by Ed Sheeran close to 70 for other artistes and I'll send 20k to your account!! WTF?! I don vex!!

KoiceReloaded:
Like Beorn already said, you know nothing. You're clueless.

The guy knows absolutely nothing, and it's a damn shame.

JeromeBlack:
Wow....Sia is prolific.

However, I have never heard most of those songs.

The lady is a breathe of fresh air to me. The first song of hers I heard, I deleted it with the speed of lightening. All that changed when I heard Chandelier and the intoxicating Elastic Heart. Elastic Heart cemented her place in my heart and when I read her interview and saw why she doesn't appear with her face in her videos, I knew I made the right choice. Even movie studios seek her out to write the soundtracks for their movies. You may never like any of her songs, but it doesn't take away the fact that Sia is a walking musical legend right now.

iamJ:
Sia only wrote diamond, abeg leave Rihanna alone for us that love her

LMAO. No wonder you think so low of Sia. She wrote Sledgehammer for her and many more for other artistes. Jon Snow, you know nothing.

iamJ:
Sia genius na wa ooo

iamJ:
any song? I love Sia too but she has many awful songs, go to her YouTube channel, you wouldn't like more than 10 inside 100

Too many awful songs? Look, EVERY musician has had some awful songs in his/her discography. It's not possible to listen to many songs of any musician and like them all, but to put TOO MANY AWFUL SONGS in the same sentence with Sia is an insult to not just Sia but to OVER FORTY artistes she's written powerful songs for. You heard me right, OVER FORTY DIFFERENT ARTISTES. If not for the genius of this deeply introverted lady, these incredulous number of artistes wouldn't be scrambling over themselves to have her write songs or them. If you think I'm lying, count for yourself below:

http://time.com/4209769/sia-best-songs-written-for-other-artists-ranked/


Sia doesn't just write songs, her lyrics are intelligent and elicits life teachings. Sia was the brain behind Rihanna's priceless Diamonds banger; so good it was, Rihanna sought her out to write Sledgehammer for her again. The lovely Try Everything which Shakira sang in Zootopia, the badass behind the song was you guessed who - Sia Furler. I repeat, Sia has a Midas touch, anything she touches turns to gold. Her song was the ONLY song I downloaded out of the numerous OSTs in Fifty Shades: Freed. She's got that effect on me.

This is a woman that doesn't usually appear in most of her videos and doesn't make elaborate and fancfiul videos so viewers will be focused on her messages not visuals. If you don't like Sia's songs, there's nothing wrong at all with it, we all have different taste. After all, my friends loved Wizkid's Daddy Yo and Davido's Nwa Baby to death, but both songs are trash to me and will never enter my phone or laptop.

My top 10 Sia songs in no particular order except number 1 are:

Elastic Hearts
Chandelier
Big Girls Don't Cry
Helium
Alive
The Greatest [she sang the remix with Kendrick Lamar but I prefer the original]
Cheap Thrills
Titanium
Birds Set Free
Rainbow
Unstoppable
Breathe Me

Oops!! It's more than 10. Sia confuses me again with her magical songs.

KoiceReloaded:
Now, that's what I'm talking about! A rating backed by a well laid out analysis. Bravo.

You forgot the worst plothole of the lot, though. In fact, the plot of the whole movie hinged on a huge plothole. Check this out: the villain's gang wanted to obtain a tablet that would allow them gain admin access to the building. The tablet can only be unlocked via facial recognition, and was keyed ONLY to Dwayne's face. Much later, the hot asian girl on finally forcefully acquiring the tablet from Dwayne, proceeded to unlock it by holding it up to his face. Pretty straightforward, right? So what's the problem?

Here's the kicker... the plot hiccup: The villain's gang stole the backpack that is supposed to house the tablet earlier in the movie, remember? So why go through the trouble of attempting to steal the tablet, when without Dwayne to unlock it, the tablet would have been useless anyhow?

This gigantic plot blunder ruined the movie for me, after which I gave it a 4, only because I'm a generous grader.

Oh boy. You're very attentive to details. How did I miss this laughable plothole?

mekaprime:
I quite agree with you that most stunts in movies nowadays are unrealistic, but the few realistic ones kinda gives a movie that unique value & worth. Take a look at these following movies and you'll agree with me on this.

1)Tom cruise in MI GHOST PROTOCOL ( scaling the 161 floor building of the Burj khalifa building)

2)Jackie chan In WHO AM I (scaling that glass building with nothing more than his ass)

3)David Belle in DISTRICT 12 & DISTRICT 12 ULTIMATUM ( his parkour skills are priceless in the two aforementioned movies

4)Isla Fisher in NOW YOU SEE ME( her impersonation of Harry Houdini escape act in the aquarium)

5)Tony Jaa in ONG- BAK 1&2 ( the scene were the dude ran under a moving vehicle)...etc.

True words. That's why I'm a big an of Chan and Cruise, their stunts are realistic, learned over several hours of practice, they even end up injured in many cases. I'm yet to watch number 3, though. Is it interesting?

KoiceReloaded:
Go listen to Chandelier by Sia. I guarantee you, your life will never be the same again.

I've listened to it over 4 years ago. Chandelier opened my eyes to Sia's uncommon artistry and talent and I've been a staunch fan ever since. After listening to Chandelier, I explored the vast world of Sia's magical music and became addicted to her. Nowadays, I watch ANY movie based SOLELY on the act that Sia was on the OST, because you can never ever go wrong with that genius. What a woman.

Ishilove:
Beorn_ and KoiceReloaded_, I'm enjoying your bromance o

Koice is my aburo I was told to always look after him on the Internet.

KoiceReloaded:
Rihanna sucks as an actress jare. She has a unique singing voice that used to drive me mad with lust. Not anymore. Sia (the Australian singer/songwriter that penned Rihanna's hits) is the new vocal Nightingale in my life right now.

Sia is on a whole higher level, mehn. Any song her voice graces turns into gold. She's got the Midas touch, no doubt.

KoiceReloaded:
Brand new show just like Condor.

Thank God. I'll follow it up immediately i'm done with Killing Eve and Condor.

KoiceReloaded:
It's good oo. Obviously not as well written as Succession, but it did it's own thing, and did it well. You will definitely like it.

Succession is up to how many seasons? Let me see if I can follow it.

KoiceReloaded:
I was a fan, then I wasn't. When she started behaving like trash, I lost interest. Now, whenever I see her in a movie, I'm more likely not to take that movie serious enough.

I disliked her so much during the emboldened era. Hated her guts during that era, but gradually started liking her again. I still prefer the RiRi of old times to this recent RiRi. On her acting skills, she's not a good actress. Most directors insert these celebs into their films for their fame not their acting skills.