My hump: Pop music or pornography?
I recently just took an excruciating car trip with my mom – I’ll elaborate in the next entry, you can be sure. Anyways, in the six-hour car rides both to and from West Virginia [yes, I went there and didn’t even kiss one cousin], I heard more popular music than I could stand. I should explain. I listen to more “alternative
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I despise that song, nice idea you're making millions. I recently went in the car with my friend's 5 year old sister and that song came on the radio and I changed it immediately. It was inappropriate for her age I believed. Yet, she began to throw a fit it was her favorite song and her mom told me to put it back. I did and I turn around and see a 5 year old singing and dancing to this. Completely inappropriate for her age. And people wonder why sex is so easy and not so special for people anymore....
re: my hump
“My hump.
How Can You Claim To Be Punk...
And have ever had any faith in or desire for the "protection" of the FCC? NoFX said it best, "Oh won't you please play this fucking song on the radio?" Even considering a possibility of the FCC being anything but the devil incarnate is about as punk as MySpace. Oh, right, you think MySpace is punk. What the hell?
One man's black-eyed pea is another man's Kiss...
Princess, it was the context that made the thing repulsive to your senses.Not that the lyrics you quote are inspiring. On the otherhand, there's nothing inspiring about "They say that Santa Fe is 90 miles away..." but that song is inspiring. Far as I'm concerned the difference between just cliché and brilliance is musicianship. 6 months or tops a year from now that black eyed pea song will be just noise to anyone's ears. Mark Twain wrote a piece on this same theme, can you believe it? Different technology in those days, but the ideas he expressed were similar. Often, I'm just interested in the musicianship, and if there ain't none I'n not interested. I don't need to even understand the lyrics at that level. And I don't care what the genre. I can listen to Gillian Welch and David Rawlings do a song like Neil Young's Albuquerque or Welch's Everything is Free all day long and turn my mind around each beat of a couple bars and be so focused on what is happening musically that I don't even pay attention to the words.And some of Sam Phillips songs just startle me with her perception and the way she bends the music around a lyrical theme--so that I see myself as a lover sees me. What there is to notice is something that Dizzy Gillespie told me one afternoon over a chess game at his house in New Jersey: "what keeps me alive [musically], man, is young people. They keep inventing it and if you don't follow the next generation, you're stuck in the past and you don't grow. That's why the people I play with are all young people."
Just remember this,
a kiss is just a kiss
and the black eyed peas are passé
about the time the ink dries on the label
the world's gone by
reprise