dzuunmod opts for dumbing down of our musical heritage!!!
OH MY GOD PEOPLE NEED TO SHUT UP ABOUT RADIO 2.
So you probably don't remember, but a few weeks back I posted a link to an article about how rapper Buck 65 was getting a show on CBC Radio 2 as part of its revamped schedule, which would be tilting ever more in the directions of pop, jazz and blues music. (Radio 2 had largely been the domain of classical music prior to this. Largely - but by no means exclusively.)
Anyway, old people went nuts. And a few younger ones, too. (I'm just assuming that anyone opposing the changes who doesn't state explicitly that he or she is young-ish is, in fact, old.)
So as is my wont, I wrote a letter to the editor to basically tell all these people to get over their entitlement complexes and deal.
Another old person wrote in response.
Lest anyone think that I put that in my pipe and smoked it, here's what I would write if letters to the editor pages were meant for back-and-forthing on this:
If CBC Radio 2 attempts to compete with commercial radio stations for the same listeners, what in fact is gained?
Dear stupid old people: you are either clueless or purposely starting from the wrong premise in practically every letter about this. If you knew anything about pop music, you would realize that there's not actually very much overlap between what commercial pop stations play, and what CBC Radio 2 is now playing. It's The World at Six versus CJAD, ok? BUCK 65 IN AFTERNOON DRIVETIME =/= THE MORNING ZOO OR THE HOWARD STERN SHOW, NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU THINK IT MIGHT.
The result is a wasteful duplication of programming with classical radio listeners left with virtually nothing.
Ok. And classical radio listeners are owed otherwise because...? Y'all still haven't answered that one for me.
I don't listen to or watch commercial radio or television, yet am forced to help pay for it in the form of higher cost of products as the advertisers pass their costs on to the public.
That's amazing, because something similar happens to me: I don't shoplift, but I pay for those who do whenever I go to Dollarama! And I don't live in Chicoutimi, but my provincial taxes pay for their hospitals there. And I certainly don't care for Saturday Afternoon at the Opera but I gotta friggin' pay for that too through my federal taxes. Shut up.
Classical music is part of the foundation of Western civilization. Mozart's Don Giovanni was written in 1787. In our century it will be performed every year hundreds of times to countless music lovers who recognize the timelessness of this work.
You have better taste in music than I do. Your music is more culturally valuable than mine is. Got it.
I ask letter-writer Josh Cuppage how long he thinks his pop music will last.
Longer than you. No, I didn't say that. I'm just so goddamn tired of the condescension dripping from every last one of these letters. You've worn me down: YOU'RE BETTER THAN ME. YOU'RE RIGHT. YOU PEOPLE DESERVE YOUR OWN PUBLIC RADIO STATION MORE THAN ME EVEN THOUGH ABSOLUTELY NO ONE WAS LISTENING TO IT BEFORE.
Can he name any pop singers or songs from Mozart's time? Cuppage opts for a dumbing down of our musical heritage.
Yeah. You win. My music is just stupider than yours so you should have a radio station for your dead, white European music.
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Also: Good. Let him give it back. Anyone who belongs to that dirty organization shouldn't get close to the Order until they all apologize for decades of raping young boys anyway.
So you probably don't remember, but a few weeks back I posted a link to an article about how rapper Buck 65 was getting a show on CBC Radio 2 as part of its revamped schedule, which would be tilting ever more in the directions of pop, jazz and blues music. (Radio 2 had largely been the domain of classical music prior to this. Largely - but by no means exclusively.)
Anyway, old people went nuts. And a few younger ones, too. (I'm just assuming that anyone opposing the changes who doesn't state explicitly that he or she is young-ish is, in fact, old.)
So as is my wont, I wrote a letter to the editor to basically tell all these people to get over their entitlement complexes and deal.
Another old person wrote in response.
Lest anyone think that I put that in my pipe and smoked it, here's what I would write if letters to the editor pages were meant for back-and-forthing on this:
If CBC Radio 2 attempts to compete with commercial radio stations for the same listeners, what in fact is gained?
Dear stupid old people: you are either clueless or purposely starting from the wrong premise in practically every letter about this. If you knew anything about pop music, you would realize that there's not actually very much overlap between what commercial pop stations play, and what CBC Radio 2 is now playing. It's The World at Six versus CJAD, ok? BUCK 65 IN AFTERNOON DRIVETIME =/= THE MORNING ZOO OR THE HOWARD STERN SHOW, NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU THINK IT MIGHT.
The result is a wasteful duplication of programming with classical radio listeners left with virtually nothing.
Ok. And classical radio listeners are owed otherwise because...? Y'all still haven't answered that one for me.
I don't listen to or watch commercial radio or television, yet am forced to help pay for it in the form of higher cost of products as the advertisers pass their costs on to the public.
That's amazing, because something similar happens to me: I don't shoplift, but I pay for those who do whenever I go to Dollarama! And I don't live in Chicoutimi, but my provincial taxes pay for their hospitals there. And I certainly don't care for Saturday Afternoon at the Opera but I gotta friggin' pay for that too through my federal taxes. Shut up.
Classical music is part of the foundation of Western civilization. Mozart's Don Giovanni was written in 1787. In our century it will be performed every year hundreds of times to countless music lovers who recognize the timelessness of this work.
You have better taste in music than I do. Your music is more culturally valuable than mine is. Got it.
I ask letter-writer Josh Cuppage how long he thinks his pop music will last.
Longer than you. No, I didn't say that. I'm just so goddamn tired of the condescension dripping from every last one of these letters. You've worn me down: YOU'RE BETTER THAN ME. YOU'RE RIGHT. YOU PEOPLE DESERVE YOUR OWN PUBLIC RADIO STATION MORE THAN ME EVEN THOUGH ABSOLUTELY NO ONE WAS LISTENING TO IT BEFORE.
Can he name any pop singers or songs from Mozart's time? Cuppage opts for a dumbing down of our musical heritage.
Yeah. You win. My music is just stupider than yours so you should have a radio station for your dead, white European music.
***
Also: Good. Let him give it back. Anyone who belongs to that dirty organization shouldn't get close to the Order until they all apologize for decades of raping young boys anyway.