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| From | Brian Curtis <brioohs@sbcglobal.net> |
| Subject | Re: HE'S a Whore, not She... |
| Date | Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:47:08 -0600 |
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on 2/10/04 2:00 PM, audities-owner@smoe.org at audities-owner@smoe.org
wrote:
> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 12:39:02 -0800
> From: ronald and karen sanchez <eldeluxe@mcn.net>
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: Is Rap music?
> Message-ID: <40294147.A3C1DF2D@mcn.net>
>
> Hey didn't Cheap Trick do a song called She's A Whore?? I think they might
> have written about drinking and partying too, and we all want to write songs
> about not having a job.
Sorry, Ronald. It's "He's A Whore" (from the first album), and it's about a
guy who has a job - that job is being a gigolo. Granted, it's a sexist song
in some ways, but it is pretty amusing and at least a different angle
lyrically than the alternative.
As far as rap goes, to me it's like any other genre that has predominant
crappy traits that seem to be the mass appeal ingredients as far as the
public is concerned. Every genre has its' transcendent material, and
unfortunately I haven't heard that from the rap category - I'm not willing
to search it out because I'd just as soon not be stuck with a bunch of discs
I don't want while conducting that search. What rap I've heard I'm not
impressed with, and that's because it's the same old self-aggrandizing "I'm
a gangsta - shut up bitch - etc." that the majority of it seems to be. And
musically I don't hold much truck with people that can't compose their own
music and have to "borrow" other people's work, regardless of whether the
original composer gets paid or not. Some of that I consider clever, but not
necessarily creative. My opinion.
Brioohs
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