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Re: Thank you Fretless

I was listening to rap in 1979, and heard plenty of people say it was just a passing fad. Over the next few years plenty more said it would never be commercially viable. Now the majority of the top 10 singles in America are rap songs.

What's ironic about my participation in these threads is that I don't even listen to rap music much anymore, and haven't in over ten years. And I don't care about the genre one whit & wouldn't miss it if it disappeared tomorrow. But I knew a long time ago it wasn't going anywhere. Rap nostalgia in 50 years? Hell yeah. Believe it. But understand that rap is not a live medium. No arena rap tours in 50 years? Well, rap is what's at the top of the charts now, and it's there in spite of very little if anything in the way of arena rap tours now. The genre doesn't need to sell out stadiums to occupy the place it has in the market. Which still isn't even that much. Yet all those hit singles. Hmmmm...

The Beatles were turned down by nearly every record company in the UK before George Martin decided to take a chance on them. Any 'musician' you like--any one--comes from a tradition where musicians will be mocked by some because they just plain don't like it. I'm sick & tired of hearing people talk about what constitutes music when they base it solely on their likes & dislikes. 'I don't like it, therefore it stinks,' or 'I don't like it, therefore it isn't music,' or 'I don't like it, therefore the people who make it are not musicians.' I get really sick & tired of it. Anybody who's going to define what music is or isn't or who's a musician & who's not on this basis is going to get an argument from me.


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