Friday, June 26, 2009

Ranting

"Oh I really liked him when I was growing up so everything he did was perfect." STFU and get some critical distance. Michael Jackson sucked. He made bland MOR pop songs and sold a lot of records just as "independent promoters" were at their most powerful. Big deal. The Beatles? Changed pop music forever.* Michael Jackson? Nothing. Anybody thinking knew that then and knows that now. Hell, the Dead Kennedys were VASTLY more influential than Michael Jackson...

Don't get me started on "punk rock"...

*Specifically, they made artists write their own music and they made the recording of the music just as important as the songwriting to the experience of the music.

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