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Scott wrote:Can rock music ever be justified and, if so, under what circumstances?Yes, no and sometimes. Who is Tim McGraw and Nelly?
Can rap music ever be justified and, if so, under what circumstances?
Can pop music ever be justified and, if so, under what circumstances?
I like the song 'Over and Over' by Tim McGraw and Nelly.
Kepler1571 wrote:De gustibus non est disputandum.You are obviously highly educated but, out of consideration for those of us who are not, could you stick to English please.
Rederic wrote:Listen to some John Prine. Good musician, good song writer, & his words are sheer poetry.You can be an excellent musician and still play rubbish. I don't know anything about John Prine but I do know that the lyrics of most country music is over sentimental and false.
Steve3007 wrote:Country music lyrics can seem false because of the extraordinary lives of the people who wrote them. To a middle-class, cynical, English, atheist, arty-farty, namby-pamby liberal type like me whose never really done a proper day's hard graft in his life they seem like they couldn't be anything other than the most gooey, sentimental, schmaltzy pap. That's what proves that they're real.Well, I suppose so, if you look at it that way.
Dolly Parton looks so ridiculously, obviously false that she couldn't possibly be anything but genuine.
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