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JP11 · 9th March 2006

I loves me a good summing thread and a good today's music sucks thread!

Why does today matter anyway? Who's says the present is all that? Where is it written that you can't live in the past (or the future, if you can figure that one out)?

And if Uptown Girl is a classic, than clearly there are no standards...YMCA and Macho Man are classics, too (those are the 70s right? A classic time)...

So I'm watching American Idol...and one of the talented sings another old classic called Vincent (Starry Starry Night)...now granted, the guy who sang it did it in a very stodgy way and is a rather geeky fellow...but Simon Cowell (tastemaker extraordinaire) said it was an awful song, childish, something for 11 year olds...

Which is interesting, isn' it? I thought it was one of the more adult songs...how many pop songs are about Vincent Van Gogh?

I'm sure if a "cooler" dude had done the same song with a loop and fukked the melody up in that scatting melismatic queer way that I'm so frickin sick of, ol Simon would have loved it, as it would have seemed much more mature....

9th March 2006	#29
JP11 Banned Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 3,306	I loves me a good summing thread and a good today's music sucks thread! Why does today matter anyway? Who's says the present is all that? Where is it written that you can't live in the past (or the future, if you can figure that one out)? And if Uptown Girl is a classic, than clearly there are no standards...YMCA and Macho Man are classics, too (those are the 70s right? A classic time)... So I'm watching American Idol...and one of the talented sings another old classic called Vincent (Starry Starry Night)...now granted, the guy who sang it did it in a very stodgy way and is a rather geeky fellow...but Simon Cowell (tastemaker extraordinaire) said it was an awful song, childish, something for 11 year olds... Which is interesting, isn' it? I thought it was one of the more adult songs...how many pop songs are about Vincent Van Gogh? I'm sure if a "cooler" dude had done the same song with a loop and fukked the melody up in that scatting melismatic queer way that I'm so frickin sick of, ol Simon would have loved it, as it would have seemed much more mature....