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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens
Show some class, skybird.  |
Do
yourself, Neal.
I stayed, mostly, silent when there were threads on Michael Jackson, Witney Houston, they had
some musical strengths but all in all are not really amongst mankind's - or art's - greatest known names and will be forgotten in a hundred years; regarding Amy Whinehouse I really bit my lips considering what I really thought; I stayed silent on David Bowie since I found him sympathetic after a long TV biography about him many years ago, and liked at least his intense performance in Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence at least - his musical work is overrated, however.
But always seeing dilettantes being hyped and crocodile tears being shed over their departures is no nice experience, and is frustrating, and it is unfair, because there are so many really talented and really skilful musicians of many different genres and other artists out there who are or were capable of so much more class and skill, but just did not or do not get talked about because they lack(ed) the media lobby and the wide class-less audience that knows - and often knows nothing - about quality in this or that arts - and that is the far greater lack of class here than me calling a dead man as what he really was: a hopelessly overrated peacock so much in love with himself that I know no cure for this syndrome - and who was, in the end, a dilettante craving for validation who knew not half as much about making music as the world now claims him to have known.
You devalue and and offend musicians and artists who are so incredibly much more better than this peacock ever was, if you think dying is a value in itself and death reserves the deceased person the right to claim merits he did not justify in life, at least not by the outcomes of his chosen profession. If you compare a random limmerick to Shakespeare, you offend Shakespeare. Popularity is no indication for quality, I have learned already a long time ago. The taste of the masses all too often misleads you.
I prefer to give credit were it is due - and to give not were such compliments would go at the damage of people doing so much better. To die is no accomplishment healing the failures of a person's life. No personal friends or relatives are present here. No offence is being done. And this "man" was acting in public like a carricature of a man. Being a man myself, I take offence from this clown.
No loss there that is beyond the family's circle. And the family - is not here.
And u crank, music is not completely an issue of taste, it has a basis in mathematics, in harmonics, and in capabilities of people doing it. This guy especially lacked the voice to sing. He yelled or whimpered, he had no volume and no voice fundament. His arranegment are said to innovative, I see them as opportunistic and clueless. Respect the dead, you say. I would have said nothing if he died and media would have left it to it. But the headlines scream "one of the greatest musicians/artists/younameit". Simple truth is - he wasn't. And as I said: dying is no achievement.