Modern music is crap -- Is WAP as good as Dylan?
The Aspen Beat,
by
Glenn Beaton
Original Article
Posted By: Big Bopper,
3/22/2021 5:40:37 PM
Wet A** P*ssy is “the defining song of 2020” according to so-called critics/journalists who make a living fawning over this crap. WAP debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 100. For weeks it squatted atop the charts like a sweaty naked fat woman on a toilet.
In “the raunchiest set the Grammy’s have ever seen” that annual television info-award-mercial featured a live performance of WAP. Incompetently acclaimed and shamelessly promoted by those same so-called critics/journalists, the spectacle held all the artistry of a Mexican border town donkey show.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
J-Dog 3/22/2021 5:47:00 PM (No. 731833)
Dylan is peerless.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DARling 3/22/2021 5:54:56 PM (No. 731847)
And as easy to clean up as having those border town kids jumping on your car and smearing the windshield with water and a dirty rag. Some things are just hopeless.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Highlander 3/22/2021 5:55:03 PM (No. 731849)
Everything the left touches turns to crap. It can only degrade, never aspire.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
marbles 3/22/2021 5:55:09 PM (No. 731850)
This " music " and modern art , and what passes for contemporary culture .......it's up to the people to say the obvious. The emperor has no clothes on.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Hugh Akston 3/22/2021 5:59:16 PM (No. 731855)
I liked it better when My Girl was the defining song and my parents thought The Beatles were degenerates. Who knows what they thought of The Rolling Stones.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Ribicon 3/22/2021 6:05:59 PM (No. 731862)
Music? The purpose is to get people talking and thus to shove total degeneracy in the faces of innocent children. Weimar 2.0, according to plan.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
BarryNo 3/22/2021 6:09:30 PM (No. 731868)
Certainly a defining song of the Democrat Party.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Hazymac 3/22/2021 6:13:10 PM (No. 731873)
The difference between what passes for lyrics today, and Dylan--from his beginning in Greenwich Village 1961 to 2021--is proof positive of cultural decline. From then until now, Dylan has maintained the ability to define us and astonish us with his words. Awarding him the Nobel Prize for Literature was richly deserved. His words will outlive him, and us all. FYI? Look at the lyrics of "Visions of Johanna" from 1966. Profundity and humor. On May 24, he'll turn 80. Long may he run.
https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/visions-johanna/
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bad-hair 3/22/2021 6:16:53 PM (No. 731878)
Want some music ?
Duck Duck Go some Airport Boogie Woogie
Heathrow has fully tuned pianos at various places on the concourse where anybody can sit down and kill some time between flights.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
red1066 3/22/2021 6:24:44 PM (No. 731888)
Some of Dylan's songs were ok. As long as they were sung by someone other than Dylan.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Hazymac 3/22/2021 6:38:00 PM (No. 731903)
#10's point is well taken, if one considers Dylan as a singer compared with, say, Pavarotti or Paul McCartney as a melodist. Dylan doesn't have a dulcet voice (except for Nashville Skyline). One critic over a half century ago wrote that Dylan sang like a cow with her foot in a cow guard (or something like that). But one thing Dylan does extremely well is get across his lyrics. Many singers have done their own versions of "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright." But none ever got this song right. Dylan said this song took him months to get just right. And he did! Just perfect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iHhWh9FtsQ (Dylan: "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" 1962)
He's an effective vocalist, not bel canto. That was never the point. It was getting across the words. That he always did very well.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
greyseal 3/22/2021 6:39:48 PM (No. 731906)
Popular music has been on a downhill slide since the early '90s as hip-hop and sampling began to infest everything from pop to rock to country. I began retreating more and more into jazz, classical, and the occasional gem I might stumble across from artists from the late '70s and '80s. While it is a generational thing, modern "music" is less about soul and clever lyrics and true musical ability and more about how well you can steal ideas, program synths, or spout "F-bombs".
Its analog can be found in Hollywood which seemed to run out of ideas at about the same time and now just churns out sequels or "reboots" of truly original material.
greyseal
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
czechlist 3/22/2021 6:56:27 PM (No. 731921)
From jungle drums to symphonies to big band/boogie woogie and jazz to rock, to hip hop and now back to the jungle with coarser lyrics all along the path Evolution or entropy?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 3/22/2021 7:01:50 PM (No. 731924)
One of my co-workers listens to a phenomenom known as "country rap". He wears earbuds, but has an annoying habit of speaking the...prose...out loud.
I gather the subject matter is about being a thuggish redneck and being perversely proud of it. It is trite and tedious.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby 3/22/2021 7:05:50 PM (No. 731928)
#10 How true. Never really got into Dylan. His songs seem only to get famous when other groups do them.
Such as "All Along the Watchtower", (Hendrix) Mr. Tambourine Man (Byrds)
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We'll know the answer to the question is "yes" in a couple of years when the "artist" is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (at jan wenner's direction).
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I grew up during WWII when "Swing was king." The Dorsey brothers, Tommy and Jimmy; Benny Goodman; Artie Shaw; Harry James; and, yes, Spike Jones. Lyrics told a story rather than repeating the same four lines over and over. Songs were sung by people with voices who didn't need to yell the lyrics and you could understand every word they sung, Codas were written rather than just having the music fade away at the end of the recording. Music, then, was enjoyable.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
LadyHen 3/22/2021 7:15:52 PM (No. 731937)
I've seen Dylan twice in concert. Couldn't understand a word he said or sang but it was good just to see him. He is indeed a great song writer.
As for modern music, big corporate music is a product.. produced, packaged, and marketed for the masses and it is almost universally horrible. Streaming is where you find REAL talent nowadays.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
john56 3/22/2021 7:22:42 PM (No. 731941)
Basically, no decent music has been written since 1989.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 3/22/2021 7:24:13 PM (No. 731943)
The people who think Cardi BM is musically talented are the same morons who thought Dementia Joe would be a better President than The Donald. We're paying $3 a gallon for gas now because of their infinite stupidity. And so what if WAP debuted at #1. As a chart watcher since the mid 70s, don't even get me going on how broken and worthless the Billboard Singles Charts are today.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
stablemoney 3/22/2021 7:27:29 PM (No. 731947)
We have not had any music since the 80's. Today, it is nothing but noise. No one can name an artist or a song title from the last 3 decades.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
OhioNick 3/22/2021 7:31:53 PM (No. 731953)
There's a lot of blame to go around for what has happened to popular culture in general. As for music, when you get three big record companies controlling 90% of what gets played on the radio and a just a handful of media companies owning most of this country's leading radio stations, listeners will be force-fed terrible music. At one point in the 1990s, Clear Channel (now known as I-Heart-Radio) took in more than 50% of the radio advertising dollars in 98 of the top 100 markets in the U.S. (The two exceptions were Akron and I believe either Rochester or Syracuse, New York). When you've got a monopoly like that, you can play anything you want.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Newtsche 3/22/2021 7:34:29 PM (No. 731955)
I remember Dylan responding to critics in the '60's said he didn't understand the problem, he got the notes right.
As for WAP, it graphically diminishes the notion of sex but there have always been explicit songs. But now it's mainstreamed so yeah, diminished and insufferably self-absorbed.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Venturer 3/22/2021 7:49:02 PM (No. 731959)
That stuff isn't music---------------it's noise.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
DVC 3/22/2021 7:51:47 PM (No. 731963)
Yep, modetn music is definitely crap.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
downnout 3/22/2021 8:21:15 PM (No. 731981)
I’ll take the Eagles, thank you.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
mizzmac 3/22/2021 8:53:43 PM (No. 731994)
filth masquerading as music.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
udanja99 3/22/2021 9:03:18 PM (No. 731999)
#9, is there someone there to sterilize the keys after each use? There better be or someone might get London Covid!!!!!!
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
smcchk 3/22/2021 9:10:48 PM (No. 732005)
Everything is deteriorating - and “music” is leading the way.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
TLCary 3/22/2021 9:47:35 PM (No. 732019)
Side note, "Watchtower". Joker: Trotsky, Thief: Lenin, Business men: Capitalist, Plowman: Kulaks, Princes: Romanovs, Women: bread rioters, Barefoot servants: Peasants, Wildcat: industrial strikers, Two riders: (Trotsky and Lenin), the wind began to howl... Communist Revolution.
Find the song lyrics and look up February Revolution/October Revolution/Kulaks, etc. It will make more sense and the end of the song will send shivers up your spine... because I hear history repeats itself.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
lakerman1 3/22/2021 9:57:02 PM (No. 732028)
Just one month ago, in my 83rd year, I discovered Keb Mo. He is an absolute genius, purveyor of love and joy. And he is also an excellent guitarist. And of special interest is the fact that he, like Niggas With Attitude, is straight out of Compton.
Which poses the challenging question - how can the very same environment produce NWA full of anger and hatred, yet simultaneously produce one Blues singer full of love, humor, and joy?
Keb Mo is al over you tube, and I recommend him to you people.
My favorite songs of his are titled 'She Just Want to Dance, and i Liked me better the way I was before, which is a really funny break up song.
As for Bob Dylan, I never found him to be interesting, or a good musician. Yawns to Dylan, hurrahs to Keb Mo.
And for what it's worth, I always thought Mary Ann was hotter than Ginger.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
TLCary 3/22/2021 10:29:21 PM (No. 732044)
I just read the lyrics to WAP, (just don't). Is this from the same people who ran to the fainting couches because of Pepe LaPew and that time Trump used the P-word in a private conversation with another man? Objectify much?
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
rbruce20 3/22/2021 10:47:33 PM (No. 732051)
There is plenty of good music being made by good musicians today. Problem is that the mass audience is cruder with short attention spans ignorant of the complexities of quality music. Majority of today's teenagers are lazy with no desire to work or learn beyond what is necessary to get by. The 5% to 10% of those who will succeed do not fill stadium seats to make good artist wealthy. Are societal future is not bright. No need to wear shades in my retirement.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 3/22/2021 11:05:17 PM (No. 732067)
I wouldn't have started out comparing them to Dylan because he's pretty bad too.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 3/23/2021 12:02:27 AM (No. 732094)
#11 - Thank you for the eloquent defense of Dylan's voice. I didn't listen as a fan of his "singing" voice, but as a fan of the poet's voice giving life to his words. I admit, listening to Bob it is an acquired taste for many, but appreciation of his poetry is available for all. Been a fan since my high school years and have a solid album collection. Unfortunately, TK just doesn't "get" Dylan and I only "get" to spin the old vinyl when he's in town.
#22 hits on an important point. Music is a business controlled by a handful of entities. Just as the commies infiltrated every aspect of our culture from the Scouts to Hollywood, the music industry was a primary target. It was music execs that green-lighted the thug culture of rap music at the expense of jazz, blues, classic rock and now the last bastion of Americana, country music, has fallen prey. It was all by design and not driven by consumer choice. How much consumer choice does a "tween" or teenager really have when bombarded by a coordinated effort of advertising and product? When Rap debuted in the 80's it was first marketed to the teens. Forty years later the evil is mainstream.
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