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To: KeepItSimple who wrote (57684)	10/6/2006 8:35:35 PM
From: Doren	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

pop music is intended for young, stupid people. Correction: STUPID POP MUSIC is intended for young, stupid people. It's really impossible to generalize about art this way because great artists ALWAYS challenge your expectations and break rules. I guarantee you there is some really really great challenging pop music out there for adults. The problem is separating the wheat from the chaff. Listening to music usually implies some mental effort and unless you are willing to meet the artist half way you remain stagnant. There was a time I turned my nose up at pop, but I've been over that for a long time. In fact this idea of genre was and is hated by many musicians, most notably Duke Ellington who hated it when his music was categorized. Genre is a mentally lazy way to find good music and it doesn't work because very little music in any genre is really exceptional. In fact most artists have only a few good ideas or recordings. That is the definition of exceptional. Better yet is music that can not be contained by a genre. I used to hate that about Tower. I could never find what I was looking for because they categorized their music according to genre. Drove me nuts. I have one CD that was in the Blues section AND at other times in the Classical section. It's worth a pile of money these days. Ha ha.

To: KeepItSimple who wrote (57684)	10/7/2006 1:35:08 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213177

BTW I havent bought a music CD since 1995. I used to have about 500 CDs, but I ripped them all to disk and then sold them at the local music store. Your cause and effect analysis is a little off here. I agree most adults don't buy too many music CDs anymore. But this phenom is absolutely no different than the fact that most MIS depts are unwilling to pay upgrades for MS Windows now. No business or company can constantly raise prices with no improvement or a degradation in quality and expect to remain status quo. "Illegal file sharing" <wink wink> wouldn't have mattered in the 60s or 70s when the music industry was putting out high quality product. The number of people who would have really wanted to steal the White Album or Aretha or anything of that time would have been insignificant compared the the number of buyers who just had to have the real thing. One area of music who has bucked the overall trend of the file sharing bogeyman is country. The new country music which started around the time of Garth Brooks has been going strong for years. No problem with illegal file sharing.