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| From | Jocelyn Geboy <smussyolay@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: Grammy thoughts (that is, john mayer) |
| Date | Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:59:38 -0800 (PST) |
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--- bob <segarini@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> He's getting support because his CD is selling, he's
> young, good looking,
> and talented, and plays guitar better than most guys
> twice his age.
> His label sees a career, not a one time cash grab,
> understand the internet
> in it's relation to CD sales, and are at least
> trying to raise the bar and
> change the template to fit the shift in radio, the
> record industry, and how
> things are done.
> It's old school common sense, the same thing that
> broke Norah Jones, who, by
> the way, made everybody else on that show look like
> hookers and nutballs.
> Like Mayer, James Taylor, Artie and Simon, she
> didn't need trashy clothes,
> stupid hair, (well, in Artie's case, he was there
> first), or screaming
> guitars...she had a song...and that's all you really
> need.
>
> bob
>
> ~~~~does this mean you like john mayer? or are
making the theoretical argument for him. i can't
exactly tell from this.
i *do* like johnny boy (get the torches ready), and
every time i hear a new single on the radio, i
go...man, i should get the damn album....and then i
remember that i DO have it. i got it from BMG or some
such over 9 months ago or something. so, that's
interesting to me...that i listened to it once or
twice and never again.... hmm. but i was in a real
music slump there for awhile.
'anti owsley,' interesting. i LOVE owsley... and mayer
an owsley he ain't (man, i love when i have a cold,
and the grammar gets all jumbled up in my brain), but
again, i feel john mayer is getting to be one of these
people it's hip to hate. i mean, i don't find the
stuff repulsive. as far as the 'dave matthews
quotient...' well, hmmm. i guess i hear it when people
point it out, but i've never thought that from the
beginning, and it still has to be pointed out to me
now. i just hear simple pop. and sometimes, simple is
good enough.
sometimes, i just like to sit down and grab a fiction
novel and eat chips and salsa. no thought, just a
snack....'your body is a wonderland....' blah blah
blah.
also. i didn't even watch the grammies. not a lick.
i am glad you all will distill it for me. i feel bad
afterward for not having done it, that fear going back
to childhood of having 'missed something,' but then my
brain asks -- 1. will i even know 1/2 the music they
have on there, and 2. do i even believe that the
'right' music stands a chance of winning anymore?? so,
it's not a priority. if i had been home and around, i
would have watched, but... i wasn't, so..ehh.
last but not least, as i have some 500 messages to
read, anyone hear the new macy gray? is this her
*third* album?? liking it, as usual...
jocelyn
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