by Vizma January 10, 2008
Get the blues and yellows mug.Used to describe predominantly white musicians co-opting blues music from African American. While often applied to artists that emerged in 60s blues-inspired rock (think Clapton, Mayall, etc), it also covers later artists like Stevie Ray Vaughn and modern day blues stars like Jack White.
As a pejorative, it attacks said white boy's cultural appropriation of the blues, particularly when he/she lacks the disadvantaged background "original" bluesmen came from. In the modern context of music criticism, it can also be levied against blues players obsessed with the technical artifice of blues music (skilled solos etc) instead of a broader sense of musicality. The term is used with particular derision against wealthy individuals playing a musical form centred around suffering and catharsis, with the implication that the said individual lacks soul and self-awareness.
In strictly guitar-playing circles, white boy blues is often used as an insult against players obsessed with the Chicago Blues style; particularly Stevie Ray Vaughn and Eric Clapton. The implication being that such players are either a) playing to themselves in a self-serving manner akin to masturbation, or b) attempting to mirror specific players in a soulless fashion. Again present is a stigma against individuals from wealthier backgrounds, whereby the term "Blues Lawyers" emerges: rich individuals who play the blues (often on pricey equipment) with no self-awareness of sense of irony.
As a pejorative, it attacks said white boy's cultural appropriation of the blues, particularly when he/she lacks the disadvantaged background "original" bluesmen came from. In the modern context of music criticism, it can also be levied against blues players obsessed with the technical artifice of blues music (skilled solos etc) instead of a broader sense of musicality. The term is used with particular derision against wealthy individuals playing a musical form centred around suffering and catharsis, with the implication that the said individual lacks soul and self-awareness.
In strictly guitar-playing circles, white boy blues is often used as an insult against players obsessed with the Chicago Blues style; particularly Stevie Ray Vaughn and Eric Clapton. The implication being that such players are either a) playing to themselves in a self-serving manner akin to masturbation, or b) attempting to mirror specific players in a soulless fashion. Again present is a stigma against individuals from wealthier backgrounds, whereby the term "Blues Lawyers" emerges: rich individuals who play the blues (often on pricey equipment) with no self-awareness of sense of irony.
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The most severe moment of a hangover. When you feel like your dying on a sunday, often after a massive weekend, or just massive saturday night. You can do nothing but lie in bed and watch dvd's, maybe some light shopping and you crave sex and affection from anyone.
by teal88 August 5, 2009
Get the Sunday Blues mug.1. State of dejection or gloom.
2. A style of music originating in the mid-nineteenth century from southern African-American secular songs usually featuring a syncopated 4/4 rhythm, flatted thirds and sevenths, a 12-bar structure, and lyrics in a three-line stanza in which the second line repeats the first.
2. A style of music originating in the mid-nineteenth century from southern African-American secular songs usually featuring a syncopated 4/4 rhythm, flatted thirds and sevenths, a 12-bar structure, and lyrics in a three-line stanza in which the second line repeats the first.
My friends have all left and forgotten me. I've got the blues.
“The blues is an expression of anger against shame and humiliation” (B.B. King).
“The blues is an expression of anger against shame and humiliation” (B.B. King).
by Mister Cellophane May 13, 2006
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by BJ & MJ October 4, 2003
Get the Legato Bluesummers mug.Lake bluff is known to be one of the coolest places to live ever. It doesn't have the troubles of being called poor in Lake Forest for not owning a Porsch. But it isn't a trashy town where people get shot like North Chicago. It is a calm small town right on the beach where it is safe.
by D dog May 24, 2006
Get the lake bluff mug.When you eat at Friendly's and you get sick from it (diarrhea). Named so because Friendly's is a "happy name" and to be "Blue" is to be sad.
Person #1: I ate at Friendly's last night.
Person #2: Oh no! Did you get the Friendly's Blues?
Person #1: Ya...I was on the toilet all night, blasting shit out of my ass.
Person #2: I'm not going to eat there again.
Person #1: Good idea...
Person #2: Oh no! Did you get the Friendly's Blues?
Person #1: Ya...I was on the toilet all night, blasting shit out of my ass.
Person #2: I'm not going to eat there again.
Person #1: Good idea...
by Darknessoni69 February 13, 2009
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