12/12/2007
Bad music
The Florida Music Educators’ Association went over 243 submissions for a state song and announced three finalists today.
Folks, I hate to find myself in the Simon Cowell role in this talent show, but these are aggressively awful songs.
I don’t mean just awful in a passive, boring, public-assembly way. I mean chair-creaking, clock-checking, eyes-scanning-the-exits, mind-numbingly, risibly awful. One sounds like an infomercial for a television ministry, one sounds like a 19th century Congregationalist hymn, and one sounds like something that should have been recorded on an Edison wax cylinder.
And these were chosen by people who are influencing innocent children.
I tremble for our future.
Don't believe me? Think I'm exaggerating? Give a listen.
I'm so sorry for the ridicule I've heaped on Old Folks at Home. I could not have known this would be the result.
Folks, I hate to find myself in the Simon Cowell role in this talent show, but these are aggressively awful songs.
I don’t mean just awful in a passive, boring, public-assembly way. I mean chair-creaking, clock-checking, eyes-scanning-the-exits, mind-numbingly, risibly awful. One sounds like an infomercial for a television ministry, one sounds like a 19th century Congregationalist hymn, and one sounds like something that should have been recorded on an Edison wax cylinder.
And these were chosen by people who are influencing innocent children.
I tremble for our future.
Don't believe me? Think I'm exaggerating? Give a listen.
I'm so sorry for the ridicule I've heaped on Old Folks at Home. I could not have known this would be the result.
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Amen, Stephen Foster did more to put our state on the map than any of these horrible karoke songs. I am up for adobting Jimmy Buffet's "Banana Republic", seems fitting now doesn't it?
Yours in the BOnd
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