There is a button on every radio, It allows the operator to turn it off.
I remember when singers could sing,not scream & you could actually understand the words & they dressed like stars. Johnny Mathis, Perry Como, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra.. too many to list them all. Oldies but goodies, glad I was born back then!
Reason 5,628,303 to despise pop “music”.
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction....summer of ‘65.
It’s a different year yet the same theme plays out..summer and sex.
Not in our home!
My younguns seem to be obsessed with something/someone called “Owl City”. Sweet, cute pop songs filled with clever puns. No nastiness or cuss words.
My kids (14 & 16) are actually disgusted by the mainstream music and won’t listen to it.
I reckon I raised them right...
Hundreds of years ago, artists painted scenes of fruit and food because they were hungry and these things were on their mind.
Today, artists think mostly about one thing.......
Jazz was the music of the devil.
Ravel’s Bolero was sinfuly suggestive.
Every generation is outraged at the previous generation’s music.
Every generation’s music’s purpose is, on the whole, to facilitate rebellion and procreation.
It’s how the human mind is built.
This is not industry wide, but mostly the “pop” stations.
I just recorded a four song EP in Nashville. The label wanted us to change our song “Every Good Girl wants a Badass Boy” to “Bad, Bad Boy.” We declined. We pointed to Zac Brown’s song “Toes”...”Got my toes in the water, ass in the sand...” Country still has a prety clean image, but even that is slowly changing.
“Shakespeare he is not. Romantic sonnets are not in season. Getting sex quickly seems to be the only aim.”
May I remind that Romeo’s goal was to bang Juliet within hours of meeting her whilst plastered at a party.