Posted on 01/05/2015 12:41:05 PM PST by Red Badger
Fifty years ago, how many teenage Beatles fans knew about music from 1915. That would be the equivalent.
Who the hell is Kanye West?
A POS rapper married to that fat ass Armenian whore.
Hehe
A gay fish.
POS and rapper, a bit redundant aren’t we?
A city in Florida?
5.56mm
No it wouldn’t.
There is more continuity and public appearances and elevator music and media appearances and mention on music shows about the Beatles and Yoko Ono and Paul McCartney, than the example of a 1915 musician in 1974, when Paul, Wings, and the Beatles were super stars, not to mention how big 1960s music still has importance in current America.
The most popular recording entity of the acoustic era (pre mid 1920s) was the Peerless Quartet. How many teens of the 60s (or even 50s) knew who they were?
Now THAT makes me feel old.
Chronologically it’s equivalent. The differences you cite are all very real and are a result of changes in communications media but it helps to have a sense of proportion about stuff like this.
I didn’t sleep well last night, mea culpa.
I wonder how many of these are people being silly. Written English doesn’t really do sarcasm well, and you get these waves of “are people really this dumb” every few months, and I can’t help but think they probably aren’t. I mean McCartney was at a Super Bowl not long ago, he’s not exactly unknown to young folks even if they’ve never bothered to explore so-so 60s pop.
“There are going to be hundreds of new Beatles fans once all of this is done; it’s almost guaranteed.”
Hundreds of new fans? Drop in the bucket of stardom.
Flaming Lips’ cover of the Sgt. Pepper album with Lady Gaga probably exposed more people to the Beatles than Kanye will.
What are the drum beats that people loop from Beatles songs?
I know there was a gansta rap song that used rhythms from “Somebody’s Knocking At The Door” (the refrain is the same except there is a shotgun being cocked before the line “Open the door, and let ‘em in”)
50 years ago a lot of the chart topping songs were covers of much older songs written by old black men.
Top of the billboard charts the day I was born and written by Leadbelly many years before that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgTSfJEf_jM
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