D&D and the rising pandemic

[Umbran]

And that makes me think of something completely else...

You know what's wrong with pop music today? I mean, aside from how I'm old and therefore it is terrible?

It isn't made for people to sing along to it. And that means that with all these months and months and months of shared covid experience, none of these mega-pop stars that make a bazillion dollars for every release can make a song about it that we can all fully share. And that's a darned shame.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Yep. I suspect the "Delta blues" will come to mean something different in the coming months.

I'm trying to be optimistic, but I'm getting frustrated. I'm getting frustrated with people. I can't help but feel that if more people had been taking this seriously, had gotten their vaccinations earlier (or at all), then we wouldn't be having such a problem.

It feels like we are living in one of those heavy-handed Star Trek episodes, where they come across a planet where the solution to the problem they are having is obvious, yet they will not accept the solution because of (racism, cultural taboo, mumbledy jumbledy reasons).

 

[Ryujin]

And that makes me think of something completely else...

You know what's wrong with pop music today? I mean, aside from how I'm old and therefore it is terrible?

It isn't made for people to sing along to it. And that means that with all these months and months and months of shared covid experience, none of these mega-pop stars that make a bazillion dollars for every release can make a song about it that we can all fully share. And that's a darned shame.

You're not wrong. All that we have left for storytelling music might well be Country and even that is being Autotuned and voice synthed away.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

You're not wrong. All that we have left for storytelling music might well be Country and even that is being Autotuned and voice synthed away.

I mean .... have you heard of this music called hip hop (rap)? Apparently, there are lyrics and everything.

I hear the kids might be into it.

 

[Cadence]

And that makes me think of something completely else...

You know what's wrong with pop music today? I mean, aside from how I'm old and therefore it is terrible?

It isn't made for people to sing along to it. And that means that with all these months and months and months of shared covid experience, none of these mega-pop stars that make a bazillion dollars for every release can make a song about it that we can all fully share. And that's a darned shame.

"Kids Place Live" on Sirius/XM satellite radio in the States still has a bunch of singable things come out.

It also has a bunch of radio stations from previous decades for us fogeys.

 

[Ryujin]

I mean .... have you heard of this music called hip hop (rap)? Apparently, there are lyrics and everything.

I hear the kids might be into it.

Sure have. I'd call that more rhythmic chanting, than singing though. Give me Motown, any day.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

"Kids Place Live" on Sirius/XM satellite radio in the States still has a bunch of singable things come out.

It also has a bunch of radio stations from previous decades for us fogeys.

Has there ever been a time when a Dua Lipa track came on and you didn't sing?

That album has more bangers than Shohei Ohtani eating at a British pub.

 

[Umbran]

I mean .... have you heard of this music called hip hop (rap)? Apparently, there are lyrics and everything.

I hear the kids might be into it.

I'm not talking about, say, EDM (which, I admit, generally sounds to me like a Transformer got hold of a bad burrito).

But, the mere existence of lyrics isn't enough. I'm talking about songs constructed so you can sing along.

For rap music, there's a problem - speed. You can't get a crowd of people cogently signing along to rap, any more than you can get them signing along to Gilbert and Sullivan's "I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General". The lyric of the tune is sung by one person, because even the slightest mismatch in cadences turns it into an incomprehensible mess.

 

[Cadence]

Sure have. I'd call that more rhythmic chanting, than singing though. Give me Motown, any day.

For a short shining while this summer I was able to return to my daily routine at the local bagel shop for breakfast. Where, not only is it almost always possible to get a jalapeno bagel with sausage, egg, and pepperjack, a small fruit cup, and an unsweet tea, but where there was also generally music from the mid 70s through the 80s being played. Why did everything go musically south after my childhood radio listening years! (I would also happily take most of Motown and select scatterings from the 60s, early 70s, and 90s).

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Sure have. I'd call that more rhythmic chanting, than singing though. Give me Motown, any day.

In fairness, that might be best when your singing voice has been described as, "Strangled Drunken Parrot."