The 'I Challenge You!' Thread

[S.H.A.R.P.]

As much as I hate to say it, I would have to mention the works of the rapper Eminem. Eminem popularised an entire genre of music to the western audience generally shunned by mainstream people. He has paved the way for countless of young white kids to become what is often referred to as 'wiggers'. I think he is responsible for making rap to be one of the most popular genres to day, and making it easy for countless of uninspired rappers to sell countless of their uninspired albums with their undistinguishable uninspired songs to countless of uninspired kids and other young people (sorry, I just had to emphasise it slightly).

'Thanks' to him, lots of people consider money, drugs and 'hoes' to be the important things in life, and that woman are unintelligible products of desire, eagerly willing to pull down their pants and wiggle their butts before the camera while being slapped with big bags o' money (despite that his own albums were far better then the hellspawn he has opened the gates for). Besides the aforementioned, there are countless of other stuff he has paved the way for, mostly - if not all - very undesirable.

Well, you didn't say a positive contribution to culture!

Lol, as I said to Top Hat Tim who suggested the Beatles, technically I was looking for one song rather than an artist... but your answer is still a very good one because yes... while it is ahem... Eminem... he did influence a lot of people with his work...

Considering Beethoven's 9th is over one hour long, it may be considered an album in modern terms, so I think asking for one song is cheating . I first thought of mentioning Eminem's first album instead of his entire repertoire, but since I had no idea which one was more popular, I left it at that.

In the light of scape's answer, what about Happy Birthday to You [http://en.allexperts.com/e/h/ha/happy_birthday_to_you.htm]? That's not only song at childhood, but it is song every year! Say life expectancy is about 80 years, surely you won't sing the ABC song 80 times!
Oh and might I add that I take into account the version of other country's, since both the alphabet song and happy birthday have their very similar counterpart in other languages.

 

[Inverse Skies]

Considering Beethoven's 9th is over one hour long, it may be considered an album in modern terms, so I think asking for one song is cheating . I first thought of mentioning Eminem's first album instead of his entire repertoire, but since I had no idea which one was more popular, I left it at that.

In the light of scape's answer, what about Happy Birthday to You [http://en.allexperts.com/e/h/ha/happy_birthday_to_you.htm]? That's not only song at childhood, but it is song every year! Say life expectancy is about 80 years, surely you won't sing the ABC song 80 times!
Oh and might I add that I take into account the version of other country's, since both the alphabet song and happy birthday have their very similar counterpart in other languages.

Very nice answer with Happy Birthday... it's those simple sort of songs that people have missed that have proved the best answers thus far.

I don't know if you'd consider his 9th a whole album... although you can buy it just by itself. Apparently the reason cd's are the length they are is so they could contain the whole of Beethoven's 9th on the one cd... curious little bit of trivia that one.

 

[xChevelle24]

I challenge somebody to take a 4-6 month break from Call of Duty 4, then come back and join a Groundwar game and I challenge you, after the first 3 games, NOT to want to break your disc in half.

(I couldn't achieve this)

 

[spuddyt]

I challenge you to play I wanna be the guy on impossible, and complete it.

 

[Anarchemitis]

I challenge Danzorz to a Photoshop duel, which shall be overseen by Sprout, or some other equivacable artist.

 

[Inverse Skies]

The alphabet song is 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' with different words.
I'll take that respect.

Clever, it is too. I'd say that the Alphabet song has had more influence on Human culture than Twinkle Twinkle though, even if several composers (including Mozart) were influenced by the song to some degree.