Cultcow Russell Greer / Mr. Green / @ just_some_dude_named_russell29 / A Safer Nevada PAC - Swift-Obsessed Sex Pest, Convicted of E-Stalking, "Eggshell Skull Plaintiff" Pro Se Litigant, Homeless, aspiring brothel owner

[Constellationzero]

Maybe Russhole should rebrand himself as something like The Russell Greer Project. That way it doesn't matter that he's just mashing the keytar in the background, he still gets his name up in lights. Kinda like The Alan Parsons Project, except that Alan Parsons actually has talent as a multi-instrumentalist, producer, songwriter and audio engineer.

Don't think Venmo dollars are easily sent
Don't try, suing me and taking all of my rent
You've given me too many plights before
But I ain't gonna take anymore
Don't ask me
That's how it goes
'Cause part of me knows what you're thinkin'

Don't write songs you're gonna regret
Don't let Yovanna rush to your head
I've heard the accusation before
And I ain't gonna take any more
Believe me
The Wahlburgers coupon that lights up your eyes
Made some of the lies worth believing

I am the plights in the sky, slurping at you
I can read your mind
I am the writer of cover tunes, dealing with fools
I can WOO you blind
And I don't need to slurp any more
To know that
I can WOO your mind
(Slurping at you)
I can WOO your mind
(Slurping at you)
I can WOO your mind
(Slurping at you)
I can WOO your mind

 

[Sir Dank-a-Lot]

Russell Greer f/Billy Joel. I can see it now.

 

[Non-Threatening Niall]

Maybe Russhole should rebrand himself as something like The Russell Greer Project. That way it doesn't matter that he's just mashing the keytar in the background, he still gets his name up in lights.

Someone suggested his Vegas show be named "Russell Greer & The Russell Greer Experience feat. Russell Greer The Accommodations"

 

[The Un-Clit]

Don't think Venmo dollars are easily sent
Don't try, suing me and taking all of my rent
You've given me too many plights before
But I ain't gonna take anymore
Don't ask me
That's how it goes
'Cause part of me knows what you're thinkin'

Don't write songs you're gonna regret
Don't let Yovanna rush to your head
I've heard the accusation before
And I ain't gonna take any more
Believe me
The Wahlburgers coupon that lights up your eyes
Made some of the lies worth believing

I am the plights in the sky, slurping at you
I can read your mind
I am the writer of cover tunes, dealing with fools
I can WOO you blind
And I don't need to slurp any more
To know that
I can WOO your mind
(Slurping at you)
I can WOO your mind
(Slurping at you)
I can WOO your mind
(Slurping at you)
I can WOO your mind

on one hand i hate you for ruining "Eye in the sky" for me forever.

on the other hand .....WHOO HOO HOO!! A WOO HOO HOO!!

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

No one else would ever think of covering a Billy Joel song and putting a pop spin on it!

Hate to break it to ya, Rusty, but...

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

I wish to god The Accommodations would spill the tea about working with Russ. Doesn’t need to be on here, just somewhere we can read (and archive for posterity). I bet he’s an absolute shithead to work with, and that’s after you’ve spent all that time and mental energy on understanding his slurpmouth and not showing your obvious distaste over his unkempt and drool-soaked appearance.

Think he told them they were shoo-ins for winning AGT? Think they believed him, or were they relieved to get the fuck away from the lunatic at the end, and knew there was no way in hell they’d end up forced to spend more time with Russ due to AGT saying “yes”?

Any prolonged interaction with Russ has got to be worthy of a tale over beers with good friends. Come on, Accommodations, you know you want to tell someone about working with “that drooling lunatic with the keytar”. We’re here for you, shoulder to lean on and all.

 

[DennisReynolds]

What I wanna know is how the fuck is he gonna cover a song? All of his musical endeavors thus far have been him writing shitty lyrics with basic chords and hiring other people to sing them and turn the music into something somewhat listenable. What the fuck is he gonna do, submit the sheet music and lyrics to a Billy Joel song to one of these vanity studios and say "make a pop version of this and charge me enough to let me say I made it"? The only way I can see it turning out as a cover by Russel Greer is by doing another "Looks like Heidi Klum" and even he mustered the bare minimum amount of self awareness to be like "this sounds like AIDS, I should hire people to perform my music here onwards".

 

[CWCissey]

What I wanna know is how the fuck is he gonna cover a song?

Badly.
Hilariously
Cringe-inducingly

Pick one.

 

[Angry New Ager]

What I wanna know is how the fuck is he gonna cover a song? All of his musical endeavors thus far have been him writing shitty lyrics with basic chords and hiring other people to sing them and turn the music into something somewhat listenable. What the fuck is he gonna do, submit the sheet music and lyrics to a Billy Joel song to one of these vanity studios and say "make a pop version of this and charge me enough to let me say I made it"? The only way I can see it turning out as a cover by Russel Greer is by doing another "Looks like Heidi Klum" and even he mustered the bare minimum amount of self awareness to be like "this sounds like AIDS, I should hire people to perform my music here onwards".

I'm sure he's going to play piano on it, to show off his keyboard skills. I mean, this is a dude who thinks he's as good as any lawyer, why wouldn't he imagine he's just as good a pianist as Billy Joel?

 

[L. Ron Hubbard's Cat]

What I wanna know is how the fuck is he gonna cover a song? All of his musical endeavors thus far have been him writing shitty lyrics with basic chords and hiring other people to sing them and turn the music into something somewhat listenable. What the fuck is he gonna do, submit the sheet music and lyrics to a Billy Joel song to one of these vanity studios and say "make a pop version of this and charge me enough to let me say I made it"? The only way I can see it turning out as a cover by Russel Greer is by doing another "Looks like Heidi Klum" and even he mustered the bare minimum amount of self awareness to be like "this sounds like AIDS, I should hire people to perform my music here onwards".

It's mystifying, isn't it?


Also, why? He keeps skipping around from project to project, which is expected of him, but there's always a sense of purpose. The songs are for wooing, the book was to strike back against Taylor Swift, the audition song was expressly written to get him on AGT... I'm sure even his Holocaust script was to prove something (what, I don't suppose we'll ever really know).


I think what's going on here is that he needs to prove he's a musical genius and The Accommodations just keep fucking up his vision. He knows enough to know he can't sing, but he thinks he's hot shit on the keytar and has stage presence, and besides which, his true talent is in the writing. But his beautifully-written songs keep tanking. Yes, this is because he doesn't have an "in" in The Biz, but it's also because people just don't get it. So what's a boy to do? He can't prove his songs are great if he can only afford shitty accommodations to bring them to life. But those know-nothing doofuses on Reddit and the trolls in general keep saying his music sucks! So why not show off his talents by rearranging a song someone else wrote? No one can say it's a bad song. It's Billy Joel! And if it's performed badly, that's obviously not Russ's fault. So that final third piece, the arrangement, can be where he really shines.

That should shut up the haydurs.

 

[DumbDude42]

i wonder if his work will be able to compete with the work of other artists that make cover versions of famous billy joel songs
like this:

 

[Hitman One]

like a parody (those are protected under fair use).

Mongface will be OK then. Tere's no way that a jury could be presented one of his "works" and not conclude that it's a parody of some description.

 

[CupONavy]

Hate to break it to ya, Rusty, but...

Is the person singing this sitting on a vibrating dildo? An exact cover with overdone drama class shakyvoice but completely bereft of the original’s emotion isn’t exactly a “pop spin” so maybe Russ is still in virgin territory.

 

[Drowningman]

His pop arrangement of a Billy Joel song which he dosen't play on will be a new step in Greer ism.
Unless he will actually record parts of himself playing and pay others to add the rest instruments.
Either way this will be another Greer " masterpiece ".
I so hope he follows through on this,the laughs will be great.

 

[bubble wrap]

Greer has 10 months to collect approx. 150,000 signatures for his decriminalization initiative. He's going to need a lot of money to make that happen. You'd think that's where his focus would be right now. I know he tends to give up and memory-hole things that don't work out for him, but easier access to prostitutes has been a main goal of his life for over a decade now. That whole twitter thing was months ago and it only lasted a week or so. Surely he hasn't given up so easily.

 

[AnOminous]

What the fuck is he gonna do, submit the sheet music and lyrics to a Billy Joel song to one of these vanity studios and say "make a pop version of this and charge me enough to let me say I made it"?

Among the activities of incredibly questionable ethics that these song factories engage in, actually ending up in a situation where they could be sued by Billy Joel and/or whoever owns his tunes at the moment. They are not going to fuck around with mechanical licenses, and if they do, they will charge 10x the cost of doing it just to do it. If Russhole wants to cover a Billy Joel song without BREAKING THE LAW BREAKING THE LAW he will figure out how to do mechanical licensing himself.

 

[DrJonesHat]

Among the activities of incredibly questionable ethics that these song factories engage in, actually ending up in a situation where they could be sued by Billy Joel and/or whoever owns his tunes at the moment. They are not going to fuck around with mechanical licenses, and if they do, they will charge 10x the cost of doing it just to do it. If Russhole wants to cover a Billy Joel song without BREAKING THE LAW BREAKING THE LAW he will figure out how to do mechanical licensing himself.

I think he'll just chug ahead because he always has an excuse (a bad one, but an excuse nonetheless) as to why the rules and law don't apply to him.

 

[WhaleOilBeefHooked]

I wish to god The Accommodations would spill the tea about working with Russ. Doesn’t need to be on here, just somewhere we can read (and archive for posterity). I bet he’s an absolute shithead to work with, and that’s after you’ve spent all that time and mental energy on understanding his slurpmouth and not showing your obvious distaste over his unkempt and drool-soaked appearance.

Think he told them they were shoo-ins for winning AGT? Think they believed him, or were they relieved to get the fuck away from the lunatic at the end, and knew there was no way in hell they’d end up forced to spend more time with Russ due to AGT saying “yes”?

Any prolonged interaction with Russ has got to be worthy of a tale over beers with good friends. Come on, Accommodations, you know you want to tell someone about working with “that drooling lunatic with the keytar”. We’re here for you, shoulder to lean on and all.

I have to imagine Russell is an insufferable customer to work for. He mentions in his book that he hated Songcat's version of I Get You, he says something like "I told you to add flavor and it sounds like Sesame Street!" I guarantee you he gave them vague instructions and expected some sort of masterpiece. And let me tell you, freelance workers HATE clients like this, the ones who give them unclear instructions never feel satisfied with the end product and often demand extra stuff for free.

 

[Plague Flea]

I’m stoked for Russell’s forthcoming album of Billy Joel‘s greatest hits rearranged for keytar.

 

[RodgerDodger]

I have to imagine Russell is an insufferable customer to work for. He mentions in his book that he hated Songcat's version of I Get You, he says something like "I told you to add flavor and it sounds like Sesame Street!" I guarantee you he gave them vague instructions and expected some sort of masterpiece. And let me tell you, freelance workers HATE clients like this, the ones who give them unclear instructions never feel satisfied with the end product and often demand extra stuff for free.

Makes sense. The tier of artist desperate enough to take Russ's money likely are mainly doing childrens workshops at the library.