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1. Mickey Dolenz and Davy Jones make a far better singing duo than the two blokes from "Paul Revere and The Raiders"
2. Nancy Sinatra has real singing talent. Unfortunately, Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, and 9.8 out of 10 rap artists do not.
3. Sanjaya should have been around in the 1980s. Of all the epithets accord people, he deserves to be called "boner" the most.
4. Apparently, Grace Slick's song "Lather" was about a bandmate who just turned 30. Never mind I'm almost 35 and look 26 and act 19, but some of the lyrics describe events of his life. (Drugs, lying nude in the sand, et al.) That stuff aside, "Lather" is a terrific coming-of-age song.
5. For a bubblegum manufactured image, "The Monkees" put out some stuff that sadly gets overlooked. "For Pete's Sake", "Zor and Zam", "Salesman", "Love is Only Sleeping", there's a lot from their 3rd - 5th albums that is their own and is worthy.
6. How come nobody ragged "The Partridge Family" for being a manufactured image? The same folks who conjured up "The Monkees" came up with that show, and quite obviously only Shirley Jones and David Cassidy were doing the real stuff. Probably Susan Dey as well, but it's been forever since I sat through the show. No wonder Danny Bonaduce ended up beating up people and calling himself a Republican... wasn't he also arrested for shoplifting at some point?
7. Of Sonny and Cher, it was clear Cher had the better talent as a singer. Of course, by 1989, she lost it. Those outfits... :puke: Funny, he too became a republican. What is it with hippies ending up as republicans? Trying to make good on those 1960s songs about rejecting society, returning to the wilderness and such by dismantling everything now?! :7
8. How come MC Hammer, a guy who ripped off other peoples' music (esp. Rick James' "Superfreak"), played it on what must've been one of those $80 keyboards sold at Target with the in-built selection tracks, and added lyrics of which all of them tell us how great he apparently is, ever got popular? It's no wonder the Gangsta movement, who saw him as a sellout for doing all those commercials, ended up making songs attacking him and later doing commercials as well...
9. Why does everything feel homogenized, packaged, and programmed these days? In the past, human effort had to be spot-on for a song to sound right. These days, a computer could replace 4 of the 5 band members and be precise with every single note. Were the people of the 1960s correct, with all those stories about computer goof-ups and how computers would take over our lives?
10. How many more people can write songs about the same thing: Sex? You know, it's always about longing for someone, pining over the loss of someone (usually death, divorce, looking for prostitutes, or breaking off because of infidelity, incest, or bestiality - the latter option can often be found in the genre known as 'Country' music.) Mind you, the other hot topic (violence - inciting violence) is typically ignored.
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