Intentionally Bad Art
Jean Luc Godard made the film “Contempt” purposefully bad to fuck over the studio funding it
Cole Porter wrote the notoriously awful “Bianca” in “Kiss Me Kate” because he was pissed that the actor who had to sing the song had fucked him to get the part, then dumped him.
Then, of course, there were the Dadaists of the 1910s, openly mocking art by displaying a urinal and calling it “Fountain”
Any other examples when an artist intentionally made crappy art to screw someone over or insult someone?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 31 | January 22, 2023 4:41 PM
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Madonna released an album called "American Life" just to punish everyone for the disappointments in her life.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | January 21, 2023 11:11 PM
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Was Glitter intentionally bad?
This thread is just going to become people listing movies they hate, isn’t it?
by Anonymous | reply 3 | January 21, 2023 11:21 PM
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[quote] when an artist intentionally made crappy art to screw someone over or insult someone?
That describes most art since Picasso started making money by putting three eyes on the side of a face. His sneering joke on the world of highbrow art.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | January 21, 2023 11:25 PM
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I blame Warhol, not Picasso
by Anonymous | reply 5 | January 21, 2023 11:26 PM
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Phil Spector was mad at a business partner whom he owed one more song. He wrote a purposely bad gimmick dance song called "Dance the Screw" knowing it could never get played on the radio. He even "sang" on the record. The original is worth a lot of money now.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 6 | January 21, 2023 11:29 PM
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Not bad as such but Rossini wrote an Ave Maria On Two Notes. There is whole lot going on harmonically to distract from the fact that it's only.... Two notes. To my knowledge, he didn't wrote it as a jab at singers with a very limited range. It pokes fun though at compository staples to elcit emotion.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 7 | January 21, 2023 11:32 PM
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It’s not intentionally bad, in fact it’s damn good, but Pink Floyd wrote Wish You Were Here as a direct insult to their record company
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 8 | January 21, 2023 11:39 PM
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Cole Porter's song "I Love You" - intentional parody of generic love song lyrics
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 9 | January 22, 2023 12:20 AM
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No serious artist flippantly makes bad art. Where are you coming from with this? Sure, an artist may go do far as to hold a turd up in front of your face, but only to make a larger point about society or for some kind of change for the better. Most artists are beautiful souls.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | January 22, 2023 12:33 AM
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[quote]Most artists are beautiful souls.
MARY!!!!!
by Anonymous | reply 12 | January 22, 2023 12:47 AM
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I will further add, R12, they are often physically beautiful. Visit openings of young artists and see if I'm lying ;)
by Anonymous | reply 13 | January 22, 2023 12:50 AM
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"Young" is probably the operative word.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | January 22, 2023 12:55 AM
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Marvin Gay owed his ex wife the proceeds from his next album, and made “Here, My Dear,” an intended failure that tanked.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | January 22, 2023 1:23 AM
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Jonathan and Darlene Edwards (a.k.a. Paul Weston and Jo Stafford)
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 17 | January 22, 2023 1:29 AM
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[quote] No serious artist flippantly makes bad art.
Godard was not a serious artist? Or Marvin Gaye? Or Phil Spector? Or Cole Porter?
by Anonymous | reply 18 | January 22, 2023 1:50 AM
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Cocktails for Two was NOT a bad piece of music. Originally it was an ode to the repeal of Prohibition.
Stafford then was doing a series of comedy numbers but several years earlier Spike Jones already had permanently changed the tune into a parody
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 20 | January 22, 2023 2:13 AM
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Harold Lang sang the song Bianca in Kiss Me, Kate (originally). Is that story really true? It seems weird that a major composer would deliberately put a "bad" song in his musical masterpiece. I mean if it was so bad, wouldn't it have been cut as soon as someone other than Harold Lang was performing it?
by Anonymous | reply 21 | January 22, 2023 2:26 AM
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It’s still in the score, and it’s still embarrassingly terrible, r21
by Anonymous | reply 22 | January 22, 2023 2:28 AM
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Howard Hawks bet Hemingway he could make a profitable movie out of his worst story, which was how "To have and Have Not" was made.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | January 22, 2023 2:30 AM
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R23 But he made a great movie out of it, so it wasn't intentionally bad art.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | January 22, 2023 2:32 AM
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More Jonathan and Darlene
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 25 | January 22, 2023 2:47 AM
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R17 One reason why the Darlene Edwards recordings were so funny is because Jo Stafford had incredibly good pitch when she sang. Her voice didn't have a lot of coloration, and she used vibrato sparingly, but that made it so clear that Stafford was dead-on in pitch all the time. She claimed she didn't have perfect pitch, but she surely had excellent relative pitch: when she sang with The Pied Pipers earlier in her career, their complex harmonies had to be sung strictly in tune to not sound "sour." When Stafford deliberately sang intentionally out of tune as Darlene Edwards, she sang wrong notes "perfectly" wrong.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | January 22, 2023 5:16 AM
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i feel this song shows Darlene Edwards’ finest work:
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 27 | January 22, 2023 5:54 AM
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[quote]Cole Porter wrote the notoriously awful “Bianca” in “Kiss Me Kate” because he was pissed that the actor who had to sing the song had fucked him to get the part, then dumped him.
Harold Lang was about 28 when the play opened, Cole Porter was 30-ish years older at about 58.
If near 60 year old Coley thought a 28 year old actor/dancer was fucking him for anything BUT career movies, he's a dimwit. Just enjoy that tight body and blowjobs lips that you'd never get otherwise. it's a win-win.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 28 | January 22, 2023 6:34 AM
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Cole knew why he was getting cock. He just didn’t appreciate it going away as soon as the contract was signed. Very rude.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | January 22, 2023 6:37 AM
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Modern woke TV and movies.
The creators despise the fan base. Henry Cavil left The Witcher because the producers, writers, and directors opening stated that they despise the original fanbase, had no intention of staying true to the characters, and only made it to impress their SJW friends in LA.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 30 | January 22, 2023 8:01 AM
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My very favorite Darlene Edwards performance. It gets funnier as it goes.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 31 | January 22, 2023 4:41 PM
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