Which one, Lady Gaga, Tony or Frank?.....
What happened, your ox just get gored?
Posted on 03/22/2014 2:13:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Tony Bennett doesn’t have much patience for most modern music. The legendary singer, 87, told the BBC Radio 4’s Today program that most modern songs lack a “lasting quality.”
“The songs that are written today, most of them are terrible,” he said. “It’s a very bad period, musically, throughout the world for popular music.”
He added that today’s music industry leaders are more concerned with making money than making quality music.
“The corporations took it over and they want to make so much money and they don’t care whether the public likes it or not,” he said. “They think the public is ignorant, so their attitude is, ‘Don’t give them anything intelligent, because it won’t sell.’”
He also criticized what he sees as the music industry’s bias toward younger listeners.
“Today, record companies are failing because they are putting their accent just on the young, and I think that’s rather silly,” he said.
Bennett is a huge fan of one young pop icon, however; he’s collaborating with Lady Gaga on a new jazz album, Cheek to Cheek.
“She’s one of the best singers I ever heard,” Bennett told Parade.com in 2012. “She also plays great piano and dances very well. She’s an all-around great performer…I’ve met so many people in show business over the years and I’m very impressed with her. She’s one of the great talents coming up. She’s going to always surprise everybody with her artistry.”
Watch Bennett and Lady Gaga perform “The Lady Is a Tramp”:
Tony Bennett’s new song :
“I Left My Brain in San Francisco”
Nick CAVE???? WTF is Nick Cave?
The day I was born, the headline on our local paper read, "Sabres Battle MiGs Over Pyongyang." Lefty Frizzell's I Want to Be With You Always topped the CW charts, while Rocket 88 was the number one R & B disc in the nation.
Which one, Lady Gaga, Tony or Frank?.....
What happened, your ox just get gored?
Just browsing and spotted your link to 1957 hits.
Memories,memories. A broken romance and “Four Walls” by Jim Reeves.
Amazing how one song can take us back.
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So do I. This new type of so called Christian music makes me sick. I like the traditional old hymns. You can say what you want about Family Radio, but they have the best Gospel music I have ever heard. Now that Mr Camping isn't around any more, I hope things change a little.
“... Who wrote that? ...”
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The song “Subterranean Homesick Blues” was released in 1965
by Robert Allen Zimmerman AKA Bob Dylan.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycVcBJ4C6V0
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But I’ll bet you already knew that.
1) Everybody has a taste,
2) Everybody’s taste is worse than mine.
OMW! Is that hack still alive? He lost his voice around 1970, but that has not stopped him from singing. I absolutely refuse to listen to him sing, especially since he thinks it’s perfectly okay to chuckle through a lyric when he can’t make the notes.
Sorry, he just sets me off. /rant
She’s not deranged - she knows exactly what she’s doing.
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Perhaps a better adjective would be “demonic”.
I liked the songs and sentiment from the 30’s and 40’s but that is just me.
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You are not alone. Love that stuff.
Hmm. I’m not really into ‘50s music, but I see the appeal of the song. Thanks for the link.
I was skeptical about her until I worked out Poker Face on the guitar. I then began to listen to her arrangements and had a complete change in attitude. Yes, she's not plumb but has talent.
I was skeptical about her until I worked out Poker Face on the guitar. I then began to listen to her arrangements and had a complete change in attitude. Yes, she's not plumb but has talent.
>> Good songs are still being written <<
Yep, mostly in Nashville.
>> it’s just that you’ll never hear them <<
Then you’re not tuned into the right station.
American Idol contestants are judged based primarily on talent. This is to their credit.
Some of this crap coming out of hip hop is absolutely stupid.
Judging talent is a nebulous thing. The show judges that singers can become enormous stars. That’s it. Does the singer have what it takes to put hits out on the radio? You can classify this as “talent” but it’s really just marketability. And yes there is overlap between the concepts, but there is also divergence. Talent and Marketability are not synonyms.
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