Get off my lawn you #$&^@^ kids!!!!!
I think blaming generational problems on music/TV/videogames/movies/whatever is stupid. Everyone tries to do it but it's really a culture thing dependent on the environment you grew up in. USA was never a loving happy go lucky country. Slavery, Jim Crowe laws, profiling pretty much every ethnic group that came into this country from the Irish, to the Italians to eastern Europeans, to Chinese and Japanese. In WWII we made an internment camp for US citizens based on their nationality? How is that loving?
Any issues we have as a country are cultural and music reflects culture, it doesn't direct it.
I think its cute you put that all in the past tense, like we have things figured out right now.
Rock is all you listened to? How one dimensional of you. You'd probably hate my 90's mix with Radiohead, Beck, Beastie Boys, etc..
Saying all American Music sucks is like saying all domestic beer sucks.
Saying all Country Music sucks is very much like saying all American Light Lager sucks.
Get off my lawn you #$&^@^ kids!!!!!
Ice cold beer... Is there any other way to drink Bud Ice?
In highschool yes. Radiohead, Beck and Beastie Boys are all under the umbrella genre of "rock" and I listened to all those bands, STP, Soundgarden, Metallica, Rage, etc., etc.
Today I'm much more open minded and have certain songs I like from Pop, Rock, Alternative Rock, County, Hip-Hop and other styles as well.
If you want to talk about one dimensional, what about saying that all country music sucks because you don't like the style? I don't like Rap as a style of music but there are certain rap songs I dig. Saying all country music sucks is like saying all domestic beer sucks without even trying more than one brand.
Saying all American Music sucks is like saying all domestic beer sucks.
Saying all Country Music sucks is very much like saying all American Light Lager sucks.
Saying Rap sucks is like saying all Malt Liquor sucks. :fro:
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Epic songwriting.
She has talent, but so do the brewers who make Bud Ice. Does NOT mean I'm gonna ingest it.
She is a pop artist so she's limited in what she can write and perform.
The brewers at the BUD ICE factory are pretty limited in what they can make too.
Like I said, she has talent. If she chooses to pander to the top 40 zombies and limit herself, rather than being true to herself, then I hate her all the more.
Even if she was pop to the core and was being true to herself, she is SO sickeningly sweet pop that I would still not listen to it.
Difference is that the Bud Ice Brewers aren't doign it to be ironic.
As far as pandering, I don't think she's pandered at all out side of following a traditional pop formula. Which if you knock her for that, knock the Beetles as well as they followed the same basic formula.
I think the Beatles accidentally invented it. They weren't following anybody.
Beatles just stole from the black Jazz/Blues musicians. Either directly or by proxy.
PKU. Let your wife, kids and extended family listen to whatever they want. Only rule in our house is the one that drives the car is the one that gets to pick the radio station or CD.
Pokerface is incredibly well written.
Also realize I'm talking about music as much as lyrics. Led Zeppelin and Rush are 2 amazing bands, but some of their songs are so poorly written it's comical. This is coming from mind you a massive Led Zeppelin fan and a big Rush fan.
She is a pop artist so she's limited in what she can write and perform.
I'd like to see Gaga write a song about two arguing trees and have it be legit. Mr. Peart's writing is, for the most part, very well written. Gaga is better than most of these pop artists, but she is in no way on par with Neil and Geddy. Oh, BTW I don't really like Rush. I have a man crush on Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell. Now that is some well written music.