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Bonnie Tyler has died

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Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by lolive »

japhyr wrote: post #46

Growing up in the 80s, I've known (and sung) this song all my life. But I just saw this flowchart for the first time today: https://jeannr.tumblr.com/post/165291081/i-made-a-flow-chart... I believe that's the original source, but it looks cut off. Here's a full version: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b1/82/dc/b182dcc291495c013c98...

Visual representation is your WORST friend: it will make things LOOK simple even if the real thing required the utter mastery to create.

Look at that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATbMw6X3T40

(or that: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1500354675104013)

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by pchristensen »

auslegung wrote: post #2

Literal music video of Total Eclipse, one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgWUq0fdKk RIP Ms Tyler, you will be missed

I came here to post this, glad you beat me to it. I pulled a muscle laughing the first time I saw this.

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

#104

Post by pchristensen »

myself248 wrote: post #23
SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #5

And let us not forget "Holding Out For a Hero" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWcASV2sey0

Featured towards the climax of Short Circuit 2, which was huge in my childhood. What a powerhouse piece of music!

I love this. So many more people associate it with Shrek these days, so all the Johnny 5 comments warm my heart!

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

#107

Post by vikingerik »

japhyr wrote: post #46

Growing up in the 80s, I've known (and sung) this song all my life. But I just saw this flowchart for the first time today: https://jeannr.tumblr.com/post/165291081/i-made-a-flow-chart... I believe that's the original source, but it looks cut off. Here's a full version: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b1/82/dc/b182dcc291495c013c98...

Did you know there's a long version? (Of the song, not the flowchart, though another reply has that too)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svz-W5w2bPM

There's a 7-minute version, with two more verses that aren't in the version you always hear on the radio. The one starting at 3:45 in that video is particularly powerful and chilling.

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

#109

Post by avazhi »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #64
krapp wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not how it works. If upvotes alone mattered, HN would quickly degenerate into Reddit. The bar is whether "good hackers" would find this interesting. Death notices of famous artists are the definition of off-topic: "most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." If normies care…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614633 > Anything that gratifies intellectual curiosity is on topic for HN! - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html That doesn't mean it has to gratify your curiosity or mine - no single article can do that for everyone. But it's clear that that's what makes the article on topic. > One other aspect: the best HN submissions are the ones that are most uncorrelated with…

> Anything that gratifies intellectual curiosity

And no matter your view on the subject, a pop singer dying is not a topic that is capable of gratifying intellectual curiosity. It's about as banal as things get.

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

#110

Post by petcat »

xhkkffbf wrote: post #102

And this is another good time to remember Jim Steinman, the genius who brought us "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and many of Meatloaf's greatest hits. https://jimsteinman.com/charts.htm

Celine Dion, Air Supply.

Bonnie Tyler's Holding Out for a Hero. This list goes on. The guy was a prolific rock composer genius.

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