This may get my vote for best Audities post of the year...

Marty  (also a Doolittle fan)

Stewart Mason wrote:

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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "kerry_kompost" 
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>> Stewart Mason wrote:
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>>> That's some mighty fine elitist bullshit there, Sparkles.
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>> Pot, meet kettle.
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> I'm sorry, at what point in the last 11 or so years that I've been on 
> Audities have I ever said:
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> "Speaking solely for myself, almost all popular, commercial, 
> consumer-directed music of the last ten years has been a joke, an 
> utter insult to the intellect of music lovers everywhere. I'd love to 
> be proven otherwise, but I'm confident that won't happen."
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> I'm the person who has on occasion taken stick for being an 
> unapologetic fan of folks like the Spice Girls and Justin Timberlake. 
> I'm the guy who's been watching American Idol religiously all season 
> and would be the first in line to buy an album by any of the three 
> finalists.  (Seriously, I can't wait to hear a full album by Melinda 
> Doolittle.)  Unlike you, I unapologetically LOVE pop music, and I 
> certainly don't consider myself morally superior to it, as you seem 
> to.  Furthermore, my CD shelves are very much enriched by bands I 
> discovered through Audities, including several released by or through 
> folks here.
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> I would discuss the misplaced hubris of your other recent posts in 
> greater detail, but it seems like a simple "eat me" is sufficient: 
> like a good two and a half minute pop single, it's concise, direct and 
> does the job.
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