Have I mentioned that I like Bob Dylan's music? I learned today that we have something in common..
.we both despise what folks call "music" today. Here's what Bob had to say about it:
"I don't know anybody who's made a record that sounds decent in the past 20 years, really,"Well, that may be a stretch.
There have been some good records in the last 20 years. His Cold Irons Bound is awesome. Perhaps he is excluding his own work from his opinion.
Noting the music industry's complaints that illegal downloading means people are getting their music for free, he said, "Well, why not? It ain't worth nothing anyway.""You listen to these modern records, they're atrocious, they have sound all over them," he added."There's no definition of nothing, no vocal, no nothing, just like ...
static."
If I do not have a cd in the van, and Limbaugh is over, I hit the scan button. There is absolutely NOTHING to listen to these days!It's all bass OR great riffs
sampledstolen from thirty-forty year old songs on top of bass on top of rap lyrics centering mostly on shaking body parts. Furthermore, the message in every song is the same! Variety is absent in Radioland.Even country music has gone farther south than the map! Why has this happened!?
I have one hypothesis. The problem is that all of the "stars" are in their early twenties or younger. This may not be entirely true of country music, but it is definitely true of pop and R B.The love songs are terrible because those kiddos don't know what love is! The lyrics are shallow and empty because they have not ever done anything worthy of a song. As most of them graduated from the state school system, they probably can't write anyway!
I'll go one more...Talent scouts are clueless. And don't get me started on the nationwide embarrassment we call "American Idol."
Quotes from Reuters.
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