1. Adele. What is so great about her? She's not vocally spectacular and her vocal style is rather monotonous, most of her songs are somewhat dirge-y and are completely overplayed on the radio. The only things she has done that I've liked have been Rumour Has It (it's catchy) and Skyfall (which has the trademark Bond theme injected into it). She's not bad, but surely there is better out there??
2. Nutella. I really don't get it. It's chocolate spread. By the way people talk, you'd think it was gold flaked unicorn spread! It's sickly sweet, gluggy and really bad for you! Give me a nice raspberry jam any day!
3. "Part Of Your World" from the Little Mermaid. I am a huge Disney fan but I just don't understand this one. That song is so cheesy and cutesy, it makes me want to puke. In the musical, there are much better Ariel songs. And this is coming from someone who got a little teary when she heard a live theatre performance of 'Beauty and the Beast'. I'm not sure why people love it so much.
4. Krispy Kreme. Ugh, it's so sickly and sweet and never makes you feel good afterwards. The opening of Krispy Kreme caused traffic jams. Ridiculous! Not only are we gradually becoming a fatter, more unhealthy nation clearly seen by this behaviour, we was a better version here in South Australia called Gourmet Glaze which was less sickly and better quality, and further more, they donated their leftover doughnuts to charity. Support SA, people!
5. Mamma Mia The Musical. Let's take all of the overrated ABBA songs and put them together in a musical. Don't worry that the story is contrived and terrible. As a fan of ABBA since a child, I know that ABBA wrote some gems throughout the years that would have worked better in this musical and wouldn't have been as insufferable as the cliches in this one. Nup, not enamoured at all. It's a concept that could have been great but I really don't like it. Oh, and the movie! Poorly acted and even more poorly sung.
6. New Year's Eve. Who cares? It's a date change. Just like any other date change throughout the year for your whole life. It's just an excuse for people to get shitfaced, pollute the environment with their fireworks and empty beer bottles and pretend that they're going to be a better person starting at 12:01am. But it never happens. People don't keep their New Year's resolutions. They're the same as they always are. Whatever...
7. The movie version of The Notebook. Oh dear, it wasn't sad. It wasn't romantic. It was BORING! And soppy. And badly acted. And badly written. Everyone went gaga over this and Ryan Gosling. (Another person I just don't understand the appeal of). And no, I'm not going to read the book. Have tried reading one Nicholas Sparks book. That's 15min of my life I'll never get back.
8. Vitamin water and coconut water fads. They taste revolting. Vitamin water just tastes like weak cordial. Coconut water gives you the runs! Neither make me feel healthier afterwards. Waste of money.
9. Chinese banquets. I hate when you go out to dinner with other people and they decide to do a banquet. Guaranteed I will be the one that loses out in the end with a whole heap of food choices that I'm not interested in, layered with rice that costs about 1c to make but costs you about $3 to eat. And there's always one person that will eat more than their fair share of one thing and you miss out. Nup, let me buy my own meal, thanks. I'd rather pay for a meal after which I'm actually going to be full.
10. The movie Titanic. Worst movie ever. A self indulgent waste of millions of dollars. The whole love story was puke-inducing and I just wanted them both to die. A better movie would have been focusing on the lives of the people in 3rd class instead. I thought the elderly 'Rose' was a bitch for throwing the stone in the water instead of just giving it to the people who had spent millions of dollars and their precious time looking for it forever! I thought the young 'Rose' was a mole for not making room on that door. Our film class spent an hour working out how much money we could save by cutting out all of the superfluous scenes. And don't get me started on how disappointed I was with James Horner who, up until that point, was my favourite film composer. I leave you with this gem - this shows about as much respect to the movie score as that movie deserved.
