What's in a Name ? or Fame ? OLIVER WISEMAN ? Wow. I can so much with that..had I ever been permitted to in after Thanksgiving Dinner "fun and games" time. My game is to mention the first Musical or Drama that comes to mind when a WORD is given. Respond by singing or reciting a line or phrase. Eg Please Sir I want some More "MORE" Thomas More ? or "got to Pick a Pocket or Two.". from "Oliver Oliver" whoneeds No Intro to the UK British Audience -.. Neither does "The Wiseman" - We Three Kings wisemen all Three, but here is One I never did see in THE PRESS before. Some say Magi other say Magic but some others say it is Santa ..singing Ho Ho Ho all the way to a Night at the Grammy's ! Hmm I wonder who wrote the Script for the Hollywood stuff that says "some Baby" "Some Where" ..Some how was Born and "some say" "must have done something good in his youth or childhood " and now we ( all of us in the US of AAA) "WeThe People" must keep reminding the "OTHER" that every child has a Mother who may have a "BROTHER" like no other ? I was born "raised" to age 21 married had four children (before moving to AngloLusitan AL America) from The E Swahili Coast TEN MILE STRIP - where it took over 1000 years 900-1900 to establish Places - "spots/dots on the Map" for Trader Joe and brothers "Tom Dick and Harry" who now skip and hop "Skipper or Hopper" from "Pemba Mozambique" to Zanzibar to Lamu to Mogadishu onto A DEN "E" den from where they send E Mail in E ! Land.
I, now live in I land with Me Myself, so all three of us just wanted to write to say how upset
we all three are, very sad in fact, that once again after decades of "NEVER AGAIN" we hear and see, the tearful scenes on the Big Screen and the tiniest of I Phone -I Pad screens - sheer disbelief. "AGAIN?" say those aged nearly 100 years old voices, whose clearest memories are of their very own Grandma Grandpa ( like 80 - 85 Madeleine "All Bright" and Merry and Gay or RBG) we never knew or heard of till we were 50? 60? Yet I Me myself, in Zanzibar a school girls singing on the Choir of SANTA Josef..would sing and say, pray, obey. Same as here in the US where A men! Al lelujah A Gain is forever" not just "A Game" en joie, alley vous? "enjoy Yourself, its later than you think . Enjoy yourself while you're still in the PINK !"
The Grammy’s are a dystopian circus which indulges the worst of social influencers to youth……..it’s tragic that any alt-look or lifestyle can be mainstreamed in the service of diversity and tolerance.
Im Canadian and the only thing im proud of from this county right now is Glenn Gould ( Goldberg Variations), Leonard Cohen , & Rufus Wainwright ( we share with the US). Im with Peter re Brubeck and Vivaldi.
I have to weigh on this one. The Grammys recap. A bunch of performances where it is like a pole dancer at Flashdancers to show how strong and female we are.
A lot of congratulating one another on their power.
Some Country folks show up, so they can be inclusive and show how Country is not full of racist, MAGA supporters, and the artists themselves can distance themselves from the like.
I can’t quite predict the winner of the spoke word narration/audio narration category, will it be William Shatner, Meryl Streep, Rick Ruben, Bernie Sanders or Michelle Obama?
I think the whole thing became just too preachy, and they want to rub in our faces how rich and wonderful they are. I will however happily watch any interesting performances tomorrow. Plus Night Country is on tonight and how great is that show!! Incredible cast of characters and just fantastic acting. Cheers.
I am sad no one mentioned Motown and the R&B from the late 60s and 70s. That’s the music I grew up with and I still love it today. Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gay and Tammy Terrell, Wilson Pickett, Edwin Starr, Smokey Robinson, Martha and the Vandellas, Otis Redding, the Queen of Soul--Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, Al Green and Bill Withers. And so many more. These people could sing without all the fancy equipment and enhancement used by today’s recording artists. The talent was staggering.
I took my kids to see the Temptations and the Four Tops and they grew up listening to what I think is the best era for popular music.
And no one has even come close to Aretha in vocals.
I have been told I have eclectic taste. Right now I am going backwards, Hoagy Carmichael, Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, swing and big band. I also try and keep up with Lord Huron, The Accidentials. I am just looking for something that is unique.
If you read magazines like MOJO and Rolling Stone you can get the impression that there's an almost endless supply of great new music out there, some of it being made by creative geniuses that you've never even heard of. If you actually listen to the songs so praised, though, you'll almost inevitably come to the realization that it's impossible for an artist to be so utterly talentless, or to write songs so bad, that a music reviewer, or ten, won't sing the praises of his or her work.
On that note, Evan Gardner says Ice Spice "takes the sound of the streets and combines it with the pop songs of her adolescence. The result is an innovative genre..."
Check out her "Deli" video on YouTube (65m views). Is what you see and hear innovative in any sense or just the latest iteration of prurient, pressurized "attitude" being fired into our faces from a mass cultural crap-nozzle? Her new song "Think U The Shit (Fart)" (6.3m views in just 7 days) is likewise 100% fungible, the product of a dumbed-down, low-standards form of cultural echolalia.
Gardner describes Ice Spice's songs as "a piece of bubblegum you can't help but munch." Well, personally, I'd cross the street six blocks early to avoid munching on that.
It’s neat that Peter Savodnik found a new way to show us all what a pretentious douche bag he is
I am in love with Jellyroll. That man is Authentic w a capital C. Wow did I misjudge him (first time I saw him was Grammy pics). Respect to this man.
What's in a Name ? or Fame ? OLIVER WISEMAN ? Wow. I can so much with that..had I ever been permitted to in after Thanksgiving Dinner "fun and games" time. My game is to mention the first Musical or Drama that comes to mind when a WORD is given. Respond by singing or reciting a line or phrase. Eg Please Sir I want some More "MORE" Thomas More ? or "got to Pick a Pocket or Two.". from "Oliver Oliver" whoneeds No Intro to the UK British Audience -.. Neither does "The Wiseman" - We Three Kings wisemen all Three, but here is One I never did see in THE PRESS before. Some say Magi other say Magic but some others say it is Santa ..singing Ho Ho Ho all the way to a Night at the Grammy's ! Hmm I wonder who wrote the Script for the Hollywood stuff that says "some Baby" "Some Where" ..Some how was Born and "some say" "must have done something good in his youth or childhood " and now we ( all of us in the US of AAA) "WeThe People" must keep reminding the "OTHER" that every child has a Mother who may have a "BROTHER" like no other ? I was born "raised" to age 21 married had four children (before moving to AngloLusitan AL America) from The E Swahili Coast TEN MILE STRIP - where it took over 1000 years 900-1900 to establish Places - "spots/dots on the Map" for Trader Joe and brothers "Tom Dick and Harry" who now skip and hop "Skipper or Hopper" from "Pemba Mozambique" to Zanzibar to Lamu to Mogadishu onto A DEN "E" den from where they send E Mail in E ! Land.
I, now live in I land with Me Myself, so all three of us just wanted to write to say how upset
we all three are, very sad in fact, that once again after decades of "NEVER AGAIN" we hear and see, the tearful scenes on the Big Screen and the tiniest of I Phone -I Pad screens - sheer disbelief. "AGAIN?" say those aged nearly 100 years old voices, whose clearest memories are of their very own Grandma Grandpa ( like 80 - 85 Madeleine "All Bright" and Merry and Gay or RBG) we never knew or heard of till we were 50? 60? Yet I Me myself, in Zanzibar a school girls singing on the Choir of SANTA Josef..would sing and say, pray, obey. Same as here in the US where A men! Al lelujah A Gain is forever" not just "A Game" en joie, alley vous? "enjoy Yourself, its later than you think . Enjoy yourself while you're still in the PINK !"
The Grammy’s are a dystopian circus which indulges the worst of social influencers to youth……..it’s tragic that any alt-look or lifestyle can be mainstreamed in the service of diversity and tolerance.
Why is the FP shilling for the Grammys? Surely this is not the publication for this? Reading about “pop culture” is not why I subscribed…
“I ain’t kiddin y’all, I’ve seen Fentanyl, sneak in the deep and sink in and end it all.
I learned early that thats life. I seen dreams turn to ash at the end of a glass pipe.
White trash roots run deeper.
I done seen pain pills turn to needles.
The things i’ve done to numb these feelings, is something that you can’t out run.
You can’t unlive where you’re from.”
- Jelly Roll
It’s not the wordy poetry we’ll hear from Douglas Murray that we need a back story to understand. No disrespect, I love his Sunday column.
But this hits much harder.
Her haunting cover of Take Me Home. Country Roads is magnificent
Im Canadian and the only thing im proud of from this county right now is Glenn Gould ( Goldberg Variations), Leonard Cohen , & Rufus Wainwright ( we share with the US). Im with Peter re Brubeck and Vivaldi.
I have to weigh on this one. The Grammys recap. A bunch of performances where it is like a pole dancer at Flashdancers to show how strong and female we are.
A lot of congratulating one another on their power.
Some Country folks show up, so they can be inclusive and show how Country is not full of racist, MAGA supporters, and the artists themselves can distance themselves from the like.
I can’t quite predict the winner of the spoke word narration/audio narration category, will it be William Shatner, Meryl Streep, Rick Ruben, Bernie Sanders or Michelle Obama?
I think the whole thing became just too preachy, and they want to rub in our faces how rich and wonderful they are. I will however happily watch any interesting performances tomorrow. Plus Night Country is on tonight and how great is that show!! Incredible cast of characters and just fantastic acting. Cheers.
Lana recently said that she only just realized that you had to submit her music to be considered for a Grammy 😭😭😭 but agreed that she deserves one!
I am sad no one mentioned Motown and the R&B from the late 60s and 70s. That’s the music I grew up with and I still love it today. Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gay and Tammy Terrell, Wilson Pickett, Edwin Starr, Smokey Robinson, Martha and the Vandellas, Otis Redding, the Queen of Soul--Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, Al Green and Bill Withers. And so many more. These people could sing without all the fancy equipment and enhancement used by today’s recording artists. The talent was staggering.
I took my kids to see the Temptations and the Four Tops and they grew up listening to what I think is the best era for popular music.
And no one has even come close to Aretha in vocals.
A great big. Who cares!!!!!
I have been told I have eclectic taste. Right now I am going backwards, Hoagy Carmichael, Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, swing and big band. I also try and keep up with Lord Huron, The Accidentials. I am just looking for something that is unique.
Meh.
Wasn't Joni Mitchell one of the artists who boycotted Spotify to try to get them to deplarform Joe Rogan?
yes and her music still hasn’t returned 🙄
If you read magazines like MOJO and Rolling Stone you can get the impression that there's an almost endless supply of great new music out there, some of it being made by creative geniuses that you've never even heard of. If you actually listen to the songs so praised, though, you'll almost inevitably come to the realization that it's impossible for an artist to be so utterly talentless, or to write songs so bad, that a music reviewer, or ten, won't sing the praises of his or her work.
On that note, Evan Gardner says Ice Spice "takes the sound of the streets and combines it with the pop songs of her adolescence. The result is an innovative genre..."
Check out her "Deli" video on YouTube (65m views). Is what you see and hear innovative in any sense or just the latest iteration of prurient, pressurized "attitude" being fired into our faces from a mass cultural crap-nozzle? Her new song "Think U The Shit (Fart)" (6.3m views in just 7 days) is likewise 100% fungible, the product of a dumbed-down, low-standards form of cultural echolalia.
Gardner describes Ice Spice's songs as "a piece of bubblegum you can't help but munch." Well, personally, I'd cross the street six blocks early to avoid munching on that.
Now, get off my lawn!