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RE: Well, Grohl's wrong. If you remove the extreme emotion and

Posted by RGA (R) on June 25, 2021 at 22:13:13

In Reply to: Well, Grohl's wrong. If you remove the extreme emotion and posted by tinear on June 25, 2021 at 08:21:20:

Grohl is wrong? You say that as an absolute - what is your music background? I mean Grohl was in Nirvana and worked with Kurt and probably knew him as well as most anyone.

You have not made a coherent argument here that I can understand. You say I should remove:

1. Extreme emotion
2. Pain projected in Kurt's lyrics
3. the ferocity of his musical persona
4. the originality of his combination of smash-mouth sound and screamed lyrical anguish

So do we remove these - I guess I don't follow what you're saying.

It can be argued that Billie possesses point 1 and 2. Billie's not grunge but emoption and pain are hardly the sole domain of Grunge. Other genres have it and so does Billie.

Point 3 doesn't make sense - being a suicidal drug head doesn't make you a better singer/artist. No extra credit for substance abuse.

And 4 I'd accept your case but that really isn't a positive differentiator as smash-mouth isn't a positive to me.

It's two different kinds of music - yes - no one is saying otherwise but Beato does make the comparisons, and correctly so, as to how they are similar.

Perhaps I am a softy and because I like the girl I root for her. I don't actually have any albums or anything. But when Paul McCartney is a fan and a Nirvana bandmember it gives her cred - it does not mean that people should like her music because they do - music is personal taste.

I never liked:
Nirvana
Led Zeppelin
Metallica
The Rolling Stones

I don't hate them but I would not rush out and buy an album or go to their concert. They hurt my head after a few tracks. Weirdly though I can listen to AC/DC with no problem. So go figure.

She's a nice kid and I wish her success. I also like a video of her responding to fan covers. She's sweet - it's just no my kind of music really either.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4vRFodAqWo   (Open in New Window)

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