Was it around the time he came out that he also put the magazine up for sale? Finding no takers, he's tried to re-invent Rolling Stone as People Magazine with Dr. Dre ear buds. It's mostly trivia but hey, it's music trivia. Whee!
Taylor Swift, the only person who can sell a million CDs anymore (her fans MUST cradle the booklet and photos and add to their collections) apparently consented to a Rolling Stone interview just in case her new album got tepid reviews for being pretty much like her last one, and the one before.
The thrust of it? Oooh, her feud with KANYE, who called her up to tell her he had a new gossip song about her that mentioned he hoped he might have sex with her. He apparently neglected to play her the line where he says he made "the bitch" famous (for trying to take an award from her on stage and give it to Beyonce).
The flat-bodied ice queen whose last album featured a grumble called "Look What You Made Me Do" (which Taylor fans delighted at dissecting for its references to other pop stars) has done the same with a new song on the new album.
Idiot fans of today's idiot pop acts seem to be DELIGHTED to gossip about gossip lyrics. From Eminem's "calling out" everybody on his rap tracks to back-and-forth digs involving Kanye, Katy, Taylor, etc. etc., it seems that the only way to entice the REALITY SHOW-loving Millennials is with petty gossip.
Who will the Bachelorette pick? Who is a "real" housewife. Who wins "Dancing with the Stars." How can we keep "Keeping Up with the Kardashians."
These vital video questions are matched by "Did Kanye just insult Drake again?" "Did Kanye just diss Taylor again?" "Let's make a list of all the people Taylor refers to as making her do something like write an idiot song about Look What You Made Me Do."
Several generations ago, this shit was the exception, not the rule.
Nobody even knew who the hell "Judy Blue Eyes" was, in the Stephen Stills song. Nobody really cared. The song was universal.
Nobody was concerned with who Joni Mitchell aimed "Coyote" at. It was just an interesting song about a relationship.
If a song had people "guessing," it was because it had artistic value: Don McLean's "American Pie." No gossip there.
The only breach that shocked the music world was John Lennon's "How Do You Sleep At Night," which didn't get an instant insult answer song from McCartney. Everyone knew that on any Lennon solo album, he was going to write at least a few songs referencing himself, but he also added "Imagine" and "Give Peace a Chance."
WHERE are the protest songs? Taylor and Kanye don't believe in climate change?
WHERE are the love songs? It seems Taylor can only break up with guys every other week, and Kanye is married to a plastic blow-up doll that can't quite pop out babies too well.
At one time, the charts were loaded with everything from "Eve of Destruction" to "silly love songs." Now it's what...self-referential gossip shit? We're NOT on the "Eve of Destruction" these days? Or is it that we're so close, Millennials don't want to hear about it? Is love so impossible now that the closest we get are those dirge heartbreak songs from Adele? Adele is aiming at an older audience and doesn't do "beats." You don't dance to Adele, you waddle. Or you cry.
The Rolling Stone piece just proves once again that ROCK is DEAD, "personality" is now more important than substance, and that the world is more concerned about celebrity gossip than peace, love and understanding. Nothing funny about THAT.
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