Idolator
In a half-third-person, half-first-person screed that was no doubt Telexed to the UK tabloid The Sun, Elton John has made his stance on the Internet clear: He thinks it needs to be shut down now, before any more crappy made-at-home records get foisted on the public. And that people—including, probably, us—need to quit blogging and march in the streets for ... something. We're not entirely sure what. Maybe the fact that there's "too much technology"? Or maybe better albums, since he's claiming that in the '70s there were "at least ten albums released every week that were fantastic"? Actually, perhaps he just wants better drugs, so he'll at least think that there are that many good albums coming out every week.
Why we must close the net [The Sun]
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This explains where Ted Stevens got all of that cash.
Elton needs to have Chef write lyrics for him again.
Elton John then proceeded to go out on his front porch to yell, "GET OFF MY LAWN YOU DAMN KIDS!!!".
I got a better idea, Elton: why don't you stop touring? Every time I see you on the TV, it's pretty clear you haven't had any love of your big songs in decades, your resentment at having to pound out "Bennie & The Jets" one more damned time is obvious and embarrassing, and UH I DON'T THE INTERNET HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH *THIS* PARTICULAR FORM OF EMOTIONAL DISCONNECT, OK?
Okay, wait: he's bitching about people making their own music at home instead of going out in the world to be with other people (I can't even begin to tackle that one), but "... all I can do is write at the piano." Where's his piano? Nordstrom's?
What's he griping about? Anyone who sat through the performance of a "musician" twiddling on his Mac Book Pro like I have can tell you how exciting today's live music can be.
Back in the 1970s, recording a multi-tracked, decent sound-quality song cost a fortune, and was strictly the province of guys like Elton. Now, anybody with a computer, a decent mike and preamp can do this. As far as I'm concerned, I love the idea that the technology is now reachable by anyone.
What Elton is saying is that he'd rather have folks like Clive Davis pick out what we listen to, rather than a democratic process like what happens on the net...
Nothing's more attractive than a fat bitchy queen.
Can you feel the love tonight?
Anyway, he's half-right...the problem, as it's always been, is corporate radio.
10 albums a week that were fantastic? Really? What week would that be, Sir Elton? Cause I remember a lot of really, really shitty albums from the 70s. But, yes, no doubt the drugs were better.
I'd like to come out in support of Sir Elton's assertions, which I think are the ramblings of a madman (albeit one who penned Funeral For a Friend); but also exactly the sort of thing today's jet-setting power-nerd needs to be told on regular basis, lest he otherwise take up arms against the burgeoning Jock Threat.
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