Matchstikman
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Lon, I do tell my coworker that all the music he likes and listens to was selected by some dude, in some office, in an expensive suit smoking a cigar and he doesn't believe that is true. He loves the Beatles and I told him that Justin Beiber and the like have made more money than the Beatles ever made in their time and he says that the reason that is true is because there are more people alive in the world today than there were in the 60s. His population theory knocked me on my butt.
So, I sit at work and I am forced to listen to Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and whatever else is on during the day and I get to hear the same songs over and over and over and over. Listen, nothing against Lady Gaga. It does take some kind of talent to write music, and sing it, and promote yourself, true, but to consider that the cream of the crop based on sales really blows my mind.
After I played an CD by Stanton Moore, a jazz drummer I like, he said that if Stanton Moore was really any good he would have been on the American Music Awards.
Oh, you should have heard the argument we had when Esperanza Spalding beat out Justin Beiber for best new artist. He couldn't understand how that could have happened. That was funny.
Thank heavens for headphones!!
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