You know what I mean. The stuff that
bloody MTV cranks out
all
day, every
day.
Aaliyah.
Brandy.
Monica.
Whatever.
Sure, they look
pretty enough but the singing! Oh have mercy on me
Sweet Lord, what kind of singing is that!?
It's just
wailing and
wailing and background dancers shaking their
asses off
till the cows come home. And that's not very suitable music
for todays
frail and
impressionable youth, I think you'll agree.
And they're just kids! They don't know anything about life! What kind
of friggin right have you got to sing about eternal love when
you're what, fifteen? You'd have to be at least 21 to know anything
about that. Now Aretha Franklin, she must be pushing 85 or something
and she knows about life.
They ain't even got proper names. 'Aaliyah', what kind of name is
that? Sounds like bloody Swahili to me.
We used to get proper soul music when I was a lad. Isaac
Hayes. Otis Redding. Marvin Gaye (God bless him!). Even Dusty
Springfield. Sigh. They just don't make 'em as they used to anymore.