> On 12/7/2010 3:06 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
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> At 11:46 AM 12/7/2010, SA wrote:
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>>> I like Billy Joel. I don't see what's so awful about his songs.
>>>
>> Here's one answer from Ron Rosenbaum:
>> http://www.slate.com/toolbar.aspx?action=print&id=2209526
>> [...]
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> Ok. That's what I thought. BJ is trite. He has no wit or style, or even any
> personality. Obviously. But jesus, it's just pop music!
>
The article doesn't say he's trite, it says he's fundamentally disrespectful of his audience, other performers and other performers. And, "it's just pop music!"? Where does that sentence end? Are we fans of American Idol winners now? "It's just pop music."
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> Billy Joel is better than 90% of the indie crap my friends make me listen
> to.
Dennis beat me to the rest of the points I had in mind, crap is crap.