[left that other site]

This is so sad. my students love her music and want to perform her songs. I am afraid that her personality is reflected in her choice of music.

The problem is, her stuff is so “manufactured” that a simple piano or guitar accompaniment exposes the songs for their abject vapidity and soullessness. It’s karaoke or nothing for those pathetic attempts at songwriting.

I work very hard to educate little girls on singing REAL music (albeit pop, classical, rock, and Broadway), but they keep gravitating towards this inane stuff because they are immersed in it on their smartphones and tablets all day long.

[Red Badger]

You need to teach them the difference between ‘music’ and ‘art’.....................

[Lucky9teen]

I know many artists lip sync once in a while, but at a "live" show? Come on....

Katy Perry in Cannes

Katy Perry flute fail

[SeminoleCounty]

Scary is that those kids are also listening to dreck that makes Ms Perry sound like Sarah Bernhardt, no kidding

[imardmd1]

Prior to teaching my chorus a new song, I previously took the time to analyze how many of each notes of the scale there were, and how many of each of the letters of the alphabet, and made a list. Then I handed copies of the list to each of the chorus members, and told them that if they just memorized the list, they would have learned the song, with all parts.

They got the idea of the importance of a visionary composer, arranger, and director to produce, with them, a soul-satisfying work of performing art.

Representing what I hear over the airwaves today as "music" is so devoid of creative genius that I only use it as a signal so alarming that I must rouse out of a deep sleep to shut off the raucous noise.

[a fool in paradise]

Ask them if that music is “going to last for the ages”?

Not merely 20 years and “done”, but something people are going to turn to 50, 75, 100, 300 years from now.

[GeronL]

I have seen teenagers playing the same vile songs over and over and over