August 01, 2007
Another idiot liberal telling us what to do
You can always count on the liberal mind (oxymoron) to come up up with ways to tell you what to do and how to do it. Here is a prime example tonight:
POP legend Sir Elton John wants the internet CLOSED DOWN.Never one to keep his opinions to himself, the Rocket Man has waded into cyberspace with all guns blazing.
He claims it is destroying good music, saying: “The internet has stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff.
“Instead they sit at home and make their own records, which is sometimes OK but it doesn’t bode well for long-term artistic vision.
I see. So since you are a self-admitted Luddite, you want all of us to be Luddites because you don't like the way music is made today. Here's a bulletin for you, Sir Elton: the method is irrelevant; it's the individual with talent that matters. Whether you sit at the piano, or write the notation out long-hand, or whether you use Sibelius(r) to score your composition, or a synthesizer, if it's shit it will still be shit. And considering your output for the last decade, I wouldn't exactly be out there throwing stones.
Mind your own business and let the rest of us do what we want. You got that, sweetheart?
Posted by George Moneo at August 1, 2007 06:39 PM
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Agreed! We are in the midst of a musical paradigm shift... the whole concept of artistic creativity is undergoing a complete change.
Elton's comment is just like any artistic establishment that rejects the innovators for breaking the traditions of the day, whether it's the people who found Picasso's painting "shocking" or Rodin's sculpture "incomplete."
Make room for the new generation...
Posted by: Dave Sandoval ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.babalublog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at August 1, 2007 10:13 PM
Evidently, Mr. John is blissfully unaware of how much of an embarrassing caricature he has become. Even if that were not the case, he has the standard celebrity disease of equating fame and fortune with being fit for anything beyond the actual reason for the celebrity (which may or may not involve actual talent). I really, REALLY wish these people would get a clue sometime. Even if they can't manage that on their own, they can sure as hell hire somebody to do it for them.
Posted by: asombra at August 2, 2007 10:29 AM
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