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Originally Posted by chris_mills
Pop music used to be fantastic; Michael Jackson, Joy Division. Some of the biggest songs of all time were born. Nowadays, Katy Perry and Rihanna rule the pop music kingdom. Makes me want to cry.
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I can't believe you mentioned Jacko in the same sentence with Joy Division. They are totally opposite of each other. In fact Jacko represents everything you complained about in you opening thread. Jacko is the same kind of artist you are bemoaning with the band One Direction. Joy Division at least in the US
were completely underground. JD's single Love Will Tear Us Apart reached #13 on the UK charts, but I don't think that warrants them being a "Pop band."
I thought Jacko contribution to pop music was to spurn record executive to look for the next pop sensation like Katy Perry and Rihanna. If early Rock n Roll artist like Chuck Berry herald the age where an person could write and perform his own material and play actually an instrument, Jacko herald the age where songwriters, producers and record exec controlled what you heard, and the singing was only their prop on stage back by studio musicians.
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Originally Posted by mord
Actually, I like you a lot, Nea. That's why I treat you like ****. It's the MB way.
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“If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.” Aristotle.
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