eraser.time206

The British Invasion had good music but it's music overshadowed the other music genres of the time. People associated great music with popularity. In many ways the popularity of the Beatles, Rolling Stones etc was a setting stone for the mediocre artists of today. I also believe that because of their massive popularity overshadowing artists such as Frank Zappa and Bob Dylan the American public was being patted on the back for their hypocritical and laughable personality that was the 60s and 70s and then so on.

Everything matters. From the childish lyrics of the Beatles to the fake rebellion of the Rolling Stones and all other bands of the time to the delusional Americans it all adds up to what we have today.

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...What? Both Frank Zappa(even if for the wrong reasons) and Bob Dylan are household names. Especially Dylan who is massively overrated, and got over in an equally overrated trend of hippy protest songs.

I think acts like Red Krayola, Sun Ra, Gyorgie Ligeti, even Beefheart(who is somewhat cult popular now, but I doubt so much in the 60s), etc. are the kinds of infinitely more interesting things in music going on that got the shaft.

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eraser.time206

Bob Dylan and Frank Zappa are known (not widely) but their music was overshadowed by the inferior. Not only was their music overshadowed by the inferior but the inferior had lyrics that are overrated and garbage. This garbage was accepted and lo and behold the trend of Americans. We (excluding me of course) always accept garbage and in the 60s and 70s it was no different.

The British Invasion symbolizes that popularity>talent. It symbolizes that people are just sheep and will listen to any garbage on the radio as long as everyone else is.

The British Invasion had very good music but the lyrics were garbage.

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