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To Ron Rosenbaum
In Response to your Billy joel article..... http://notyourbillyjoel.blogspot.com/
Posted to The Spectator by Not Your Billy Joel on June 25, 2009
Unfair
I think your opinion is based on the life you lead. To condemn all of Billy Joel's music is wrong. The music is written for the people who listen to it. I live in a town that was once thriving from all the local steel mills and now it is dying, Allentown is written for us. Maybe because your east coast and you assume since Joel is east coast that ...
Posted to The Spectator by zuidervliet on June 8, 2009
No mention of musicality, or music at all, for that matter.
I thought music critics criticized music and lyrics, not lyrics alone, and certainly not whether someone is cool or not. If you can listen to the following two songs and still call Billy Joel the worst pop singer of all time, you need to put down your music-journalist pen and start a hipster fashion blog, because you know nothing about ...
Posted to The Spectator by PaulInAustin on January 28, 2009
Billy Joel - Why is he so bad? Why are you so wrong?
What do you have against Billy Joel that you write a whole article, buy a CD set, just to analyze why Billy Joel's music is so irritating. OK, everyone has there own tastes in music. What is awesome to one is awful to another. But devote a whole page trying to find every way possible to bash Billy Joel. To prove he is an awful artist. Your ...
Posted to The Spectator by Kenny2 on January 28, 2009
Why so harsh on ANY given musician as you have with B Joel ?
'' It is a kind of mystery: Why does his music make my skin crawl in a way that other bad music doesn't?'' - Mr Rosenbaum truly asks of himself in this article. I don't pretend to be a psychologist, nor do I buy into current pop psychobabble from anyone who writes a book. If you are really asking me, Mr. Rosenbuam, I would attempt an answer ...
Posted to The Spectator by geodeticman.5 on January 27, 2009
Billy Joel Taints Pop Music
It's ironic that the criticism is about Billy Joel's ''awfulness'' within the pop music genre. When did pop music attain status as a cultural pinnacle? Heaven forbid the likes of Billy Joel taint the pristine waters of musical wonders like Britney Spears, Milli Vanilli and Falco! Billy Joel actually rates pretty highly within the genre - a ...
Posted to The Spectator by Paul K Denver on January 27, 2009
Wow , another Idiot critic strikes again
Gee Ron, you've summed up the man's work in a tidy little article for all to read as gospel. Total emphasis on lyrics, no mention of musicality. I guess that makes you a one sided writer/critic. Aren't critics suppose to critique the whole performance? I guess you've let your fan down by not following through on what we expect from a true critic. ...
Posted to The Spectator by relayer1 on January 26, 2009
Wake up
Wow. An entire article on how much you hate one particular musician's music. And on the internet. Do you write these types of articles often? Who else's music do you hate? Please, let us know, and why. Let's think about this. Every single person in America has musicians they love and hate. But I don't think many of them go on a rant such as yours ...
Posted to The Spectator by Wiseguy901 on January 26, 2009
The most pointless article ever..............
Wow...lots of big words and many years of built up anger for something so trivial and pointless to even waste our time with. Out of everything that's going on in this world of ours you have chosen to rip Billy Joel a new one? Regardless of whether one likes him or not, you should feel good about having a job where you can go to work, sit down, ...
Posted to The Spectator by brandonj74 on January 26, 2009
BJ is the cutoff line?
You must have a very short list of acceptable lyrical artists if BJ falls below your standards. Throw out all Country Artists (originality-free), crooners (cliche' dreamers), and pop artists (teeny-bop all the way). Stick to Classic Rockn'Roll, Blues, and Jazz (no worries about lyrics). If BJ is alright by Elton John and Eric Clapton, he's OK ...
Posted to The Spectator by JRH on January 26, 2009

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