In a message dated 2/24/2003 8:54:54 AM Central Standard Time, drama_diva_au@y... writes:
> Please, please, I'm totally open to be convinced otherwise. I would > seriously love for any or all of you to be able to prove to me that I'm > just old, crusty, jaded and out of touch. I desperately want to be > convinced I'm missing out on something, that there are masses of talented > performers out there, writing music, performing, (yes even SINGING, dare I > hope for it) making CD's that I simply MUST have and am just too poor to > buy. But if what my students bring to me, what I hear on the radio, what > was represented by roughly 15 minutes of an "award show" (and the adverts > with that other disposable flavour-of-the-month young thing Norah Jones) is > anything to go by I'm not holding out much hope. >
Pop music is dead right now. Rock and r&b have had dominance over the form for over 50 years...that's a long time. Nothing new is coming out, it is rehashed and recycled and in a big holding pattern waiting for something new to come along and wipe it out. I have no idea what that is, but some 15 year old kid in a basement somewhere does and hopefully he/she is doing it right now. The new movement always comes from underneath and it will again.
I do disagree about norah jones, she is not a flavor of the month. I'm not a huge fan of her voice (kind of a bad billie holiday imitation) but she will have some sort of an audience and the people who are listening to her tend to be a little older, so there is hope that some decent adult pop music can still be heard. BTW, she wasn't shoved down people's throats. She's on a jazz label (blue note) and kind of came out of nowhere. She's not great, she's alright, but is refreshing at least.
Randy Buescher
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