I never objected to his music or would care one way or another what people would like. But I come from a part of a generation where thousands of young American men came home in aluminum cans to little or no notice to anyone except their grieving families.
Every single one of them were worth more that a boat-load of drug using composers of pop music.
24 frenetic hours of non-stop adulation for wone whose sole contribution to his country was nice sounds and weird styles is discordant to me - yet another proof that we have lost our way.
That’s just snarky BS. The fact of the matter is entertainers enter our home, musicians probably more often than any other. When one of them dies, especially one we started listening to very young, it’s a hit on the self. It’s a reminder or mortality, it’s a reminder of your own personal history. And it’s a natural normal human reaction to mourn this. This kind of thing was actually much BIGGER in the past, whole countries have shut down temporarily for the death of an entertainer. If anything now, because the entertainment world has gotten so fragmented, there’s actually LESS adulation than before.
This one comes at an odd time because it feels like the music industry is under assault by Father Time. Massive icons of multiple genres have been taken in the last 4 months. But there’s really nothing unusual or “lost” about he mourning level. Sadly there’s also nothing unusual about the curmudgeons who feel the need to pee on people during sad times.