[HN Gopher] The Mostly True Story of Vanilla Ice ___________________________________________________________________ The Mostly True Story of Vanilla Ice Author : smollett Score : 83 points Date : 2020-10-10 19:05 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.theringer.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.theringer.com) | 243462 wrote: | Why is this garbage on Hacker News? | dkarl wrote: | My brother-in-law, who has Down Syndrome, went to see him in | Radio City Music Hall a couple of years ago. What? Vanilla Ice is | performing in 2019? He gets no media exposure and scores no | points with the critics by going out and performing his cheesy | early hits for a few thousand fans, so at the time I assumed he | needed the money. We dropped my brother-and-law off and next | thing you know, there's a video on Facebook where he's up on | stage and Vanilla Ice is sharing the mic with him. And now I read | he's been doing fine for money all along. Much respect to the man | for valuing the pleasure he brings to other people, independent | of the money. | jrumbut wrote: | In his hometown he was known for bringing some speakers outside | and playing impromptu block parties for anyone around. | SV_BubbleTime wrote: | Maybe it's just me, but I got about 20% in to the article and had | to stop. These articles are written for word count alone - that | has to be it. Because otherwise there is no reason to jump a head | and back over and over again. | | Tell a story in order! | Fnoord wrote: | I read the Wikipedia article [1] instead. I figured it ought to | contain the relevant historical notes. | | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_Ice | fock wrote: | it seems to include an eclectic amount of music-references for | just filling that wordcount. | echelon wrote: | It's a particular style of editorial you often find in Rolling | Stone or other biographical works. They're trying to set a mood | and paint a picture. To transport you to the time and place. | | It's magical, but it's not for everybody. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-10-10 23:00 UTC)