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

[Pee Cola]

And I'm sure he'd name Nancy Sinatra, Hank Williams Jr. (and Hank III), and Sean Lennon as examples why he thinks that. Ignoring the fact that their fathers are legends in "The Biz."

Did you mean Julian Lennon? He had a few hits back in the day. When he wasn't aping his old man's style and voice, he managed to put out the odd banger.

Even if Pipsqueak was lucky enough to originate from the seed of a musical legend, his musical "career" would be about as successful as it is now.

Holy Karaoke Reverb, Batman!

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

Did you mean Julian Lennon? He had a few hits back in the day. When he wasn't aping his old man's style and voice, he managed to put out the odd banger.

There's a Sean Lennon too.

Saw him open for Beck.

 

[Constellationzero]

Of course the difference is that Dora had money behind her. Pipsqueak doesn't.

But seriously if you want to compare somebody with no talent trying to make it big you have to stand it awe with Sondra Prill. Her mother was some bigwig at some public access channel in Florida and was able to get her daughter in to do her own show. She'd sing, poorly and do skits that weren't funny. At one point there was a charity evening where people would put on shows to raise money for some local disaster. She had the gall to charge $50 a ticket when actual people with "talent" like Steve and Eydie were selling for like $25. And then half of the people that showed up for her show were comped. Even then she maybe had a dozen people in the audience.

There's not much of her that still exists on the internet but we do still have some of her music videos.

Wow...

Hadn't heard of this woman. Vidya sounds like it was run through a sewage pipe several feet underneath some city's skid row. The movement and stage presence is wooden as hell too. Good find.

Also want to throw in that Once Upon a Tour was recently uploaded in its entirety. Before, I've only seen clips, but not much of the spoken segments. And now that I watched it. OH, MEIN GOTT the cringe.

Dora Hall truly was a female Russell Greer in every sense of the word. Shit tier "jokes" with compulsive "explaining of the joke," singing whatever including I Like it Like That, which smacks of shutting her eyes and throwing whatever turds she could to see what sticks, and the Mary Sue self insert shit along with sex pest level pestering about da bidness.

Maybe when Dora died, she got yeeted back to Earth as Russell Greer. For punishment.

 

[Pee Cola]

There's a Sean Lennon too.

Saw him open for Beck.

Ah. I knew of Sean, but didn't realise he'd gone into the music biz and has enjoyed some success. Julian is more widely known for his music in my part of the world than Sean.

 

[Picklechu]

Sean Lennon is surprisingly based. Also, he is a much better person than Russell Greer, bisexual creepazoid.

 

[DrJonesHat]

Sean Lennon is surprisingly based. Also, he is a much better person than Russell Greer, bisexual creepazoid.

To be far, that's a low bar to clear. All you have to do to be a better person than Russell Greer is not be a creep, which isn't hard to do.

 

[StinkySnack]

All you have to do to be a better person than Russell Greer is not be Russell Greer, which isn't hard to do.

FTFY

 

[AngryTreeRat]

Russell's mentality of refusing to work his way up reminds me of the side quest in Cyberpunk 2077, where Johnny says he didn't have time to work his way up because he was too busy "shaking the world". Except for Ratmouth it's because he's too busy being a stain on humanity.

 

[Pip Squeak]

I think my favourite bit of Pipsqueak’s stardom aspirations is that he wants to get into the teeny bop, pop market.

He’s about 15 years too old to break into that sector. He’s not a cute lil Justin Beiber who all the tweens can picture as their boyfriend and he’s not a hot young girl the tweens want to be.

Add that he looks a good ten years older than he really is on a good day and even if he was fantastic, he’s just going to come over as cringe. It’s like your dad showing up to the school disco.

He’s so totally oblivious to how he comes across in every area of his life and this is just another example of Russ proving himself to be King of Cringe.

 

[AngryTreeRat]

I think my favourite bit of Pipsqueak’s stardom aspirations is that he wants to get into the teeny bop, pop market.

He’s about 15 years too old to break into that sector. He’s not a cute lil Justin Beiber who all the tweens can picture as their boyfriend and he’s not a hot young girl the tweens want to be.

Add that he looks a good ten years older than he really is on a good day and even if he was fantastic, he’s just going to come over as cringe. It’s like your dad showing up to the school disco.

He’s so totally oblivious to how he comes across in every area of his life and this is just another example of Russ proving himself to be King of Cringe.

He doesn't want to be the star, he wants to be the songwriter for the star. He sees how much money those writers make and he wants it. He knows well enough to know that he can't possibly be the star, but he is deluded enough to think he can cut straight to writing for one.

 

[artilleryfroth]

He doesn't want to be the star, he wants to be the songwriter for the star. He sees how much money those writers make and he wants it. He knows well enough to know that he can't possibly be the star, but he is deluded enough to think he can cut straight to writing for one.

His attempts to get picked up as a writer of teen pop songs all openly involve himself thirsting on an existing teen-focused female star... Yep I can totally see him getting hired on that basis. Not creepy at all. In fact, I think Taylor should have hired him and recorded his song all about him gimping after her. Yep.

 

[Pip Squeak]

He doesn't want to be the star, he wants to be the songwriter for the star. He sees how much money those writers make and he wants it. He knows well enough to know that he can't possibly be the star, but he is deluded enough to think he can cut straight to writing for one.

The thing is, he is really deluded. He thinks he can be the star as the writer. His songs are presented as though they’re performed by him. He is onstage for his AGT auditions. It’s easy to forget just how fucking stupid he is, but he is absolutely that fucking stupid.

 

[AngryTreeRat]

His attempts to get picked up as a writer of teen pop songs all openly involve himself thirsting on an existing teen-focused female star... Yep I can totally see him getting hired on that basis. Not creepy at all. In fact, I think Taylor should have hired him and recorded his song all about him gimping after her. Yep.

The thing is, he is really deluded. He thinks he can be the star as the writer. His songs are presented as though they’re performed by him. He is onstage for his AGT auditions. It’s easy to forget just how fucking stupid he is, but he is absolutely that fucking stupid.

Oh he absolutely isn't fit to even be a unheard of songwriter for some garage band, unless he secretly has some talent for some other genre of music, but I think he is aware of the fact he can't be the face of his songs. Otherwise he wouldn't keep trying to use other people to sing them. He's really damn fucking unbelievably, astronomically stupid, but he has to at least look at his own photos at times and accept that reality.

 

[CWCissey]

unless he secretly has some talent for some other genre of music,

Punk.

But Russ is that fucking brainless that he will only consider pop.

 

[artilleryfroth]

Oh he absolutely isn't fit to even be a unheard of songwriter for some garage band, unless he secretly has some talent for some other genre of music, but I think he is aware of the fact he can't be the face of his songs. Otherwise he wouldn't keep trying to use other people to sing them. He's really damn fucking unbelievably, astronomically stupid, but he has to at least look at his own photos at times and accept that reality.

What I meant, and maybe I worded it badly, is that if he wanted to write songs for Taylor or Ariande or whatever, he’d write something that was supposed to be from THEIR point of view. Not the point of view of a thirsty old man.

 

[break these cuffs]

What I meant, and maybe I worded it badly, is that if he wanted to write songs for Taylor or Ariande or whatever, he’d write something that was supposed to be from THEIR point of view. Not the point of view of a thirsty old man.

It's impossible for Russell to do that because he does not understand that there are other viewpoints besides his own.

 

[AbraCadaver]

I've brought this up before, but it's worth a re-mention after you said this.

Leo Hulsman tried breaking his wife, Dora Hall into "the biz" in a strikingly similar way. The difference?
Leo Hulsman being the owner of the SOLO cup company meant he had a lot of money. He also diversified somewhat by owning real estate in the form of a few recording studios and sound stages. He also had rapports with some actors and singers as YUGE BIDNESS owners could handily afford to rub elbows with movers and shakers.

So one thing he did was allow Dora to LARP Dean Martin and Flip Wilson by recording cringey variety shows and then try getting them syndicated. Once Upon a Tour was one such example I spoke about before. Hulsman bribed the likes of Oliver, Rich Little, Frank Sinatra Jr. and Rosie Grier to appear. They did, but holy shit... And you could just see with your own eyes the classic "Bitch, that check better fucking clear!" in their eyes and on their faces with each performance.

Still got nowhere with syndication. Still got nowhere in da bidness. Why? Because Dora Hall is so transcendingly bad, you will get hickeys from all the sucktitude. Just like the greasy gourd.

Check the first five minutes at least: Russell Greer quality shit "jokes" while not trusting the audience along with Russell Greer tier pest action.

Another fun fact...anyone remember Jobriath? No? He was aggressively marketed as the new David Bowie, the new megastar, billboard in Times Square...and nobody wanted him. All the tours and media push and “people in the Biz” could not make the world accept Jobriath. He had connections out the arse, money behind him, marketing campigns, interviews, shows...but he was not what the public wanted, so his star never got off the ground.

Russ does not get that. He thinks “the Biz” throws money at you and tells the world you’re famous and suddenly, you’re a success. He thinks if the Hollywood Powers That Be decide you will be a star, then it just happens. He thinks it’s not what you know, but who you know.

Jobriath’s team knew everybody and he still flopped.

 

[DumbDude42]

Another fun fact...anyone remember Jobriath? No? He was aggressively marketed as the new David Bowie, the new megastar, billboard in Times Square...and nobody wanted him. All the tours and media push and “people in the Biz” could not make the world accept Jobriath. He had connections out the arse, money behind him, marketing campigns, interviews, shows...but he was not what the public wanted, so his star never got off the ground.

Russ does not get that.

i think russ does get that you need talent to make it big in entertainment.
but russ seriously believes himself to be a super talented musical genius, he genuinely thinks that all the normies would absolutely LOVE his work and make him into an international megastar, if he was just given a bit of initial exposure to get the ball rolling.

 

[Pip Squeak]

What I don’t think he does understand is that it’s not even simply about talent. It’s about being the right face, in the right place at the right time.

I have several musicians in the family. The most talented by far has been signed twice but never made it. He’s won awards for his song writing but sells fuck all and gets all arty and depressed about it. Only one made any chart success, two albums and they were finished.

He really misunderstands the business but that’s no surprise to anyone.

 

[AnOminous]

He doesn't want to be the star, he wants to be the songwriter for the star.

And he fails to understand nobody even knows the songwriter except a couple music nerds.

Another fun fact...anyone remember Jobriath? No?

Literally never even heard of him.