I've been watching, with some bemusement, the reaction to those Blender articles about the worst artists and worst songs in history. A popular local AM drive time talk show had a fit - seems they and their listeners liked some of those bands.
What Blender did was point out that just because certain music is popular doesn't mean it has any redeeming quality. You'd think that's obvious, but, I suppose, there are some people out there who watch the Grammies because they like the music.
Years ago I came up with a few simple rules for judging pop music.
1. If it's played frequently on commercial radio it's probably not very good.
2. If it's popular and the singer is good-looking then it's likely the music is wretched.
3. Points one and two go double for country music.
4. If the singer is called a "Diva" and is not yet 25 then the music probably sucks (probably even if they are over 25 as well).
(personal pet peeve)
Posted by: severin at April 23, 2004 02:28 PMHey, easy on that country thing!
Posted by: LWS at April 23, 2004 06:29 PMThe funny thing is, I like country music. Something to do with my upbringing, I suppose. I'll like country radio when they start playing Junior Brown, Chris Isaak, and KD Lang. Other than that I have to be content with Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, and Faron Young.
Posted by: Walter at April 23, 2004 10:27 PM