An article!

[phree_mind]

I ripped this out of a magazine in the airplane! Enjoy! READ IT.

POP MUSIC = BADKelly Clarkson had been an American Idol for three years before I heard an entire song of hers. It was that "Since U Been Gone" song. Clarkson was the musical guest on a recent episode of Saturday Night Live, and nothing else was on TV, so I watched her perform. I'm

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[phree_mind]

Everybody has different opinions, and while I understand and respect yours, I do not agree with them.

John Frusciante is not God. He's a guy who plays guitar.
If he can establish a corrupt church of child molesters under his name, maybe I'll believe then.

There is no such thing as "real music". The man who clicks two spoons together, on beat or not, is as much of a musical "god" as our John Frusciante. One man's trash, another man's treasure. One man's noise, another man's symphony. The RHCP is only great in the eyes of fans. I'm sure they're not so well recieved in the middle east.

In my opinion, RHCP sold out just as much as Green Day did.

When it comes down to it, music is what it is. Music. Sounds, vibrations, melody, lyrics, beat, harmonics. It is not something for a person to identify themselves by, to idolize.... it is something real, and therefore as apt to be subjectively approached as anything else. My choice in music is not yours. Yours is not mine.

I agreed with CERTAIN POINTS this author made, and thought he was a funny, witty, well educated writer. I did not write this. Call me "hardcore" or call me a douchebag, but it just so happens that a lot of the music I like could be called obscure. No, I don't wear fishnet sleeves or non-prescription glasses because of this.... i enjoy it, embarrassingly sing along with it, and live my life. Not accordingly, but accommodatingly.

[natzmeister]

Very much agreed with your point. Different strokes for different folks.

I love pop music, but I also love other kinds of music too. Whether it's "real" or not doesn't matter. What is real, and what is fake? Such standards can't be applied to music. The difference is, however, that I'll never confuse someone like Ashlee Simpson with an artist like Elton John, Prince, or Rufus Wainwright because, quite frankly, she's very manufactured. She needs a tad more creativity to set her apart and make her go down in history. But I enjoy her for what she is - a flavor of the moment, a guilty pleasure, something pretty to look at once in a while (and I use "pretty" very loosely).

[phree_mind]

i think she's cute!

[theroxy]

u guys think to much about it, just listen to what u enjoy does it really matter under what catagory it falls or if anyone else likes it?

"When it comes down to it, music is what it is. Music. Sounds, vibrations, melody, lyrics, beat, harmonics. It is not something for a person to identify themselves by, to idolize.... it is something real, and therefore as apt to be subjectively approached as anything else. My choice in music is not yours. Yours is not mine."

agreed