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Post by erik on Oct 23, 2014 8:41:30 GMT -5
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Post by rick on Oct 23, 2014 11:36:37 GMT -5
Erik, I read this in The Nww Yorker piece I posted prior to yours. I provided the link to the full New Yorker piece in the thread "Bilky Joel mention of Linda, Phoebe."
The Yahoo item you posted clearly states upfront that Billy Joel said this in The New Yorker. I am happy to edit my thread to says "No More Pop Albums" and then it will be the original source, the proverbial horse's mouth.
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Post by Dianna on Oct 23, 2014 16:46:21 GMT -5
I had to laugh at what he said.. fears that people might interpret any new pop songs he writes under public scrutiny, picked apart and analyzed like a Taylor Swift. Come on Piano Man.. I mean, Really?? lol
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Post by erik on Oct 23, 2014 18:16:53 GMT -5
Quote by Dianna:
Rightly or wrongly, the perception is that T-Swift is the current poster child for lyric scrutinizing, though she's certainly not the first, and she'll no doubt not be the last. Now just how big Billy's fears are about that are, I have to admit, dubious. Does anybody really try to read the meaning of a song's lyrics anymore--since so many of them aren't even worth listening to nowadays?
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Post by Dianna on Oct 23, 2014 21:51:58 GMT -5
well I could be wrong but I don't think he needs to create anyy new music.. he can keep singing all of his older songs and live very comfortably.. and I don't blame him
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Post by sliderocker on Oct 25, 2014 11:01:08 GMT -5
Rightly or wrongly, the perception is that T-Swift is the current poster child for lyric scrutinizing, though she's certainly not the first, and she'll no doubt not be the last. Now just how big Billy's fears are about that are, I have to admit, dubious. Does anybody really try to read the meaning of a song's lyrics anymore--since so many of them aren't even worth listening to nowadays? I think far too many people - from the artists to the critics to the fans - place an overemphasis on the lyrics of a song at the expense of the song's music. That's a problem that's been around since the 60s when someone somewhere decided that pop music's lyrics must have a relevant message for everyone to relate to. Music couldn't be made just for fun and to dance to. A song's lyrics don't necessarily have to have any special meaning to them. It can be fun trying to figure out if there's any meaning to them but one can go overboard. I still laugh when I think about the FBI in the 60s spending three million dollars of the taxpayer's money trying to figure out the lyrics and their meaning of "Louie, Louie." And that did happen. It's laughable only until you start thinking about the fact they did spend three million dollars. How hard would it have been just to have spent a buck just to get a copy of either Hit Parader or Song Hits magazine with the song's lyrics? If music isn't listenable, and some of it isn't, as much of that is owed to artistic pretentions that every song has to be a work of art as it's owed to incompetent playing and/or overproduction. In fact, I'd say it's more artistic pretentions than anything else. |
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