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Tony Bennett Slams Modern Music: Today’s Songs Are ‘Terrible’
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| MARCH 21, 2014
| Lindsay Lowe
Posted on 03/22/2014 2:13:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
What a joy reading this thread. All these old farts with their "Back in my day, music was music" rants. I remember growing up in the 1970s, it was the same thing. Only back then, the old farts were going back to Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters to point out "when music was music."
Forty years from now, all the young kids today are going to be grumpy old men yearning for the good old days of Coldplay and Arcade Fire while pointing out that the music of the 2050s is "utter garbage."
To: Borges
I loved Cameo and P-Funk, myself.
To: Hugin
Artists write their own music! The singer/songwriter model is the wrong model. Sure, it can work, but you don't often find both skills at the highest level in the same person.
Motown was great because the performers were separated from the writers.
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posted on
03/23/2014 9:06:12 AM PDT
by
St_Thomas_Aquinas
( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
To: Steve_Seattle
There was tremendous variety - Beatles, Stones, Beach Boys, bubble gum, Motown, soft rock, Petula Clark, Dean Martin, Ronettes, psychedelic, novelty tunes, country cross-overs, and on and on. Yes! That carried over for a time into the seventies, and it's what I miss.
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posted on
03/23/2014 9:13:00 AM PDT
by
St_Thomas_Aquinas
( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
To: Repeal The 17th
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posted on
03/23/2014 10:10:31 AM PDT
by
nothingnew
(I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
To: BuckeyeTexan
Yeah, he did and still going...in a way.
FMCDH(BITS)
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posted on
03/23/2014 10:11:39 AM PDT
by
nothingnew
(I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
To: nickcarraway; Revolting cat!
The popular music of today is the best chart success industry money can buy!
Psst, the same people who are telling you how wonderful Obamacare is are the ones saying Lady Gaga is the new Elvis Beatle.
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posted on
03/23/2014 3:56:55 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The Texas judge's decision was to pave the way for same sex divorce for two Massachusetts women.)
To: a fool in paradise
It’s the best popular music that a desk bound MBA can choose for you using an Excel spreadsheet!
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posted on
03/23/2014 3:59:26 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious! We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone!)
To: Revolting cat!
More planning goes into the marketing plan and development of popstar musicians and their images than ever went into Obammycare.
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posted on
03/23/2014 4:02:41 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The Texas judge's decision was to pave the way for same sex divorce for two Massachusetts women.)
To: nickcarraway
Tony lost me when I found out what a Libtard he really is.
Obama loving DemocRat, dumb as a fence post.
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posted on
03/23/2014 4:04:43 PM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(Nobody owes you a living, so shut up and get back to work...)
To: nickcarraway
The songs of today are only terrible if you like melody, harmony, good lyrics and you can let your children listen to them. Otherwise today’s “music” is great.
To: a fool in paradise
Indeed, Excel is just a start of it, then comes SharePoint, and finally the Normandy stage of the campaign - PowerPoint! On to Berlin!
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posted on
03/23/2014 4:05:44 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious! We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone!)
To: SoFloFreeper
When talking about music I don’t really care about a musician’s politics.
To: Revolting cat!
Battle of the bands contests are great to sign up an act and park their career so that they don't threaten the predetermined “trends”. You sign an act to a 3 album/10 year deal. You work the press to get them face recognition. You work the pitchfork and social media sites.
Who wants to FOLLOW the trends signing the next big thing when you can TELL the people what is big?
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posted on
03/23/2014 4:12:13 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The Texas judge's decision was to pave the way for same sex divorce for two Massachusetts women.)
To: a fool in paradise
The newest trend, I’ve just read in the Biz & Finance section of yesterday’s WSJ (I don’t know if it’s available online, but you can try finding it by searching on the author’s name: Hannah Karp), is for Swedish songwriters, who have had successes writing hits for the likes of Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears and others here, to develop their own stables of performers. Since the death of the CD and the rebirth of the single (alas without a B side), songwriters have been hurting, earning royalties only when they hit on a hit. Previously (and I suppose still), songwriters collected for each of sold album’s fillers, whether radio played them or not.
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posted on
03/23/2014 5:54:30 PM PDT
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Revolting cat!
(Badwhereas things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious! We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone!)
To: Revolting cat!
The new racket is to permit the public to make “fan made videos” but then contact Google’s Youtube and demand revenue (in the form of revenue from a paid ad before the clip airs).
So in essence, the studios are profiting on the work of others in the absence of any court order giving them ownership of the work.
The song owners can demand that the song audio be stripped but they have no legal claim to the video work of someone else.
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posted on
03/23/2014 6:06:52 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The Texas judge's decision was to pave the way for same sex divorce for two Massachusetts women.)
To: Hawthorn
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posted on
03/23/2014 9:17:52 PM PDT
by
berdie
To: berdie
Don’t be offended...I like C&W. :) Especially classic C&W.
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posted on
03/23/2014 9:20:11 PM PDT
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berdie
To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
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posted on
03/23/2014 9:21:36 PM PDT
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berdie
To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
I’ve always been rather partial to bands with an excellent writer who could write to and work in harmony (pun?) with the strengths of an excellent singer, whose abilities said writer probably understands more rationally than the singer him or herself.
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posted on
03/23/2014 9:26:09 PM PDT
by
Paul R.
(Leftists desire to control everything; In the end they invariably control nothing worth a damn.)
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