--- 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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