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RIGHT ON!
You hit it on the head with the comment that the industry could spend the money more wisely on better talented artists. This reminds me of going out and being forced to hear cover bands as opposed to original acts in your hometown clubs! It's because they know how to dance with their feet and not with their brain.
Posted to The Spectator by silkat2 on January 26, 2009
Billy Joel: Alternative Criteria to Contempt
Auden wrote in ''The Dyer's Hand'' - and I paraphrase because I don't have a copy at hand -- that the artist's subject is life, therefore the artist is always humbled by his subject because he knows that no matter how hard he tries, he will not do it justice; the critic's subject is a book (or songs, in this case), therefore the critic will always ...
Posted to The Spectator by ChuckJMcMahon on January 26, 2009