blastingas10

First of all, nobody said that they understand the blues. Where did you get that? I am speaking from personal experience when I say that the Black youth doesnt know anything about the blues. I come from a big city with a big percent of blacks in it. I never knew one that knew anything about the blues. They are all gangster wannabes and no matter where I go, the majority of the black youth has that same gangster persona. I dont know if Ive ever met a young black person that had any appreciation for the blues or jazz. But I havent met all the black people in the world. Obviously there have to be some.

Secondly, I only took offense to the term "pop" because I am so accustomed to seeing it being used as a derogatory term to describe bad music. Pop music was once good, today it is crap. I don't like the term, it's too broad. Whatever is popular can be called pop.

Let me know when electronic music influences the world as much as The Beatles did.

Im sure you all will insist that The Velvet Underground were Sooo much more innovative than The Beatles. I guess you choose to ignore songs like sunday morning, which is just as poppy as most Beatles songs.

Yes, lots of these technical elements were already present in music before the Beatles got around to them. But it took the Beatles, and nobody else, to make The People aware of these elements. It took the Beatles to make people believe pop music was more than just a form of shallow, temporary entertainment - here today, gone tomorrow. And it took the Beatles to make people believe that music could actually change the world.