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Ed Driscoll has another take on the decline of pop music. Talent, or "talent?" It’s one of the tragedies of pop music that as pop music recording technology was perfected, songwriting seemed to move equally, almost in lockstep, backwards. He also makes a decent point that ...prior to the MTV era, artists such as Joe Cocker, Janis Joplin, and Aretha Franklin, each of whom would likely fail the MTV aesthetics test, could have successful careers because they were amazing vocalists.  Read it

From what I've read, the Grammy's were bad.  I've never actually sat down to watch the Grammy's ever, though I like music enough, but I'm not particularly interested in the lives of musicians.  (Not particularly interested in the lives of actors or athletes either).  Award shows are woman things - women are the audience for the "human interest" stories and gossip about private lives.  That's probably why these things end up as more fashion shows than anything else.  Speaking of fashion, it's a riot to see someone complaining about sexual harassment (that's the white rose) while dressed like this.  The Red Carpet for most award shows ends up looking like a Slut Walk for attractive people.  I like Aaron Clary's take on the Grammys - outshone by an X-Games competition with people playing outrageously in the snow.  But the Grammys are about pop music, and pop music is dying from lack of... well, music. In the middle of last century, a b...