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November Challenge: Your views on mainstream music.
For the most part, I like it. I enjoy today's superstars -- Beyonce and Taylor Swift, and if I may go back a little, Katy Perry and Pink. I think it's great that young girls have such successful role models. Of course, I'm old. I turn 67 this month. Every generation has their own music and their own self expression, and this generation's is not mine, nor should it be. (The last "new" singer that felt personally relevant to me was Amy Winehouse, and she's been dead more than a decade.)
One thing about mainstream music has always annoyed me: some feel it's fashionable to diss whoever is popular because they are popular. I find that with today with Beyonce and Taylor Swift. I know when I was a little girl in the 1960s right on through the late 80s, it was somehow cool to shit on the Beatles. I bet it was the same with Elvis and Sinatra.
There's also the "I've never even heard [Beyonce/Taylor Swift]" school. People have commented on Saturday 9 that way as though it was something to be proud of. First of all, you copied the link to this week's song, you wretched nitwit. It's on your own blog (or the post you're commenting on), and you are so lazy or think you're so above it that you can't even click on it. I hope I never become that intellectually incurious.
I was talking about this with my friends recently--mostly about trends (like how autotune has made everyone sound alike).
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