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The Sea Cat
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Re: Music of the Sad.
Aug 23, 2011, 12:12
IanB wrote:
The Sea Cat wrote:
he hasn't been mentioned yet:

James Taylor.

I mean, why ? It's dreary twee singer songwriter middle of the road rubbish.

Yours,


Totally. He would have been on my list for sure but I limited my selection to artists that are annoying to me AND deemed cool in media / hipster (in the old fashioned sense) circles. So Oversung rather than Sad. Sad would be a very long list but artists only really annoy me when they are oversold on the shakiest of pretexts. For example Cheryl Cole is unbelievably annoying but I think there is a consensus, even among her fans, that she is not a great musical talent.


An interesting angle opens up here. James Taylor, dirge meister, arguably has 'talent' in the technical sense, whereas the countless Cheryl Coles have absoutely none. Generic bland histrionic warbling to these awful plastic ballads that are shat out incessantly. Tin Pan Alley at least produced some classic songs of a type, often sung/performed by people with discernable talent. The vast majority of modern mainstream pop is JUST product. Lazy shite.
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