(1201) Afternoon all. This post is one of those hiding to nothing jobs.
The Era of Fakery
In 1990 something, we heard that Betty Boo had been booed offstage in Taswegia downunder because she’d dropped her mic and the singing had continued. One does wonder if those people had ever seen top of the pops and countless other performances of a major nature.
However, it was also probably true that the majority of performances, esp. when lower in quality than the studio album, were the “real thing”. It’s a debatable point and fakers would argue that punters pay and attend for two things … “good music”, plus seeing their heroes in action … not necessarily both in one.
Whichever your position, there’s also the DAD, possibly Steve, possibly IYE stance that indeed, calling it music possibly should be put in inverted commas. I, on the other hand, thinking of Stairway to Heaven, the Dire Straits Alchemy Sultans of Swing, many of the CCR songs, maybe the Bloody Moos, certainly some of our Sunday jazz … we’d maintain that within their genre, these are classy examples, truly great in fact.
We could go further and call some of the basso continuo early Baroque ditties pretty good, even great, though classicists might disagree. I for one am not going to dismiss a genre in itself but I’m certainly going to excoriate poor quality and reprehensible practices within those genres.
Anf that’s all Fil is doing below in the two videos. The second, the Taylor Swift one … I’m certainly not running here … in fact I have no intention of watching more than Fil’s intro … rather, I’ll put the url embedded in the text below.
