He had me, then he lost me on Lady Gaga.
I Agree!
Every grandpa thinks that, and has always thought that!
So, he calls everything else trash, but the insane, disgusting spew that comes out of ‘Lady GaGa’is art? The woman is deranged
I blame American Idol and the rest — the people who hit it big are women with enormous voices who are backed by bands that provide almost no more than a throb. It’s as close to A Capella as you can get without completely getting rid of the musicians. Adelle, Rhianna, Lord, etc. I suppose they have some degree of vocal talent, but they do not produce a product that I find appealing.
Yeah, puking is real “artistry.”
What Tony is trying to say....”Rap is Crap”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmc1XN3iVVc&feature=kp
I would suggest that he try Melody Gardot.
Decent jazz is still being composed. You just have to search it out.
These is some good music out there; one just has to seek it out...radio just is not playing it.
Boring old communist.
The kid next door played some crap endlessly...some woman...she sang over and over and over...”shine bright like di-a-mund....shine bright like a di-a-mund...”. Ugh.
I blame a lot of today’s off the wall antics by entertainers to be a result of the need by the public to see this over the top behavior and not see the need for talent.
I think Madonna may have started it and Miley is certainly capitalizing on it.
I actually listened to the “Lady Is A Tramp” video. GaGa sounds really good. And, politics aside, for a man his age Bennett’s voice is still great.
How about absolutely lacking any quality at all.
There is no "music" being composed today worth listening to.
Tony Bennett is an extreme Obama lover.
See ya, Bennett.
Good songs are still being written, it’s just that you’ll never hear them because liberals run the music industry today and it’s all about promoting the “agenda” more than anything else, music be damned.
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There are plenty of brilliant composers, musicians and singers around, but I will agree that the music industry seems to be arrogantly useless.
The best musical advertisement that ever existed was MTV, which introduced the music buying public to hundreds of musical acts, that are still remembered today. But it was killed dead, not by the Internet, but by the music industry that could just not stand anybody making money off “their” music. Even if it was free advertising.
Their next mistake was to fight piracy, even if the music was not available for retail, sitting in their libraries. It still introduced the public to hundreds of artists, often they had not heard of before, and they wanted to buy their music.
Instead, the music industry just focuses on the top 20 singles that *they* promote, not that the public want. And usually even if the single is okay, it is sold only as an album with nothing else but filler.
Johny’s in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I’m on the pavement
Thinking about the government
The man in the trench coat
Badge out, laid off
Says he’s got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off
Look out kid
It’s somethin’ you did
God knows when
But you’re doin’ it again
You better duck down the alley way
Lookin’ for a new friend
The man in the coon-skip cap
In the big pen
Wants eleven dollar bills
You only got ten.
Maggie comes fleet foot
Face full of black soot
Talkin’ that the heat put
Plants in the bed but
The phone’s tapped anyway
Maggie says that many say
They must bust in early May
Orders from the DA
Look out kid
Don’t matter what you did
Walk on your tip toes
Don’t try, ‘No Doz’
Better stay away from those
That carry around a fire hose
Keep a clean nose
Watch the plain clothes
You don’t need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows.
Get sick, get well
Hang around an ink well
Ring bell, hard to tell
If anything is goin’ to sell
Try hard, get barred
Get back, write Braille
Get jailed, jump bail Join the army, if you failed
Look out kid
You’re gonna get hit
But losers, cheaters
Six-time users
Hang around the theaters
Girl by the whirlpool
Lookin’ for a new fool
Don’t follow leaders
Watch the parkin’ meters.
Ah get born, keep warm
Short pants, romance, learn to dance
Get dressed, get blessed
Try to be a success
Please her, please him, buy gifts
Don’t steal, don’t lift
Twenty years of schoolin’
And they put you on the day shift
Look out kid
They keep it all hid
Better jump down a manhole
Light yourself a candle
Don’t wear sandals
Try to avoid the scandals
Don’t wanna be a bum
You better chew gum
The pump don’t work
‘Cause the vandals took the handles.
For more than 500 years music has been deteriorating from the likes of Gregorian Chant,through Mozart etc. to the amplified noise of today. It has generally been the result of the aftermath of a war or upheaval . The survivors take on a different verve and the music pace generally increases until today its become the amplified version of two cats fighting inside a garbage can. I liked the songs and sentiment from the 30’s and 40’s but that is just me. Some of that was pretty bad too but you could at least feel somewhat romantic or relaxed when listening to most of it. Can you imagine a 50 or 60 year old couple looking back on one of today’s gansta’ rap offerings as THEIR SONG?