I feel like Rat tested me too. Sigh.
Man, I remember being sad when Freddie Mercury died.
Hell, as young as I was, I remember my mom crying her eyes out when John Lennon died.
A friend of mine was such a big Queen fan that she had to take the day off school when Freddie Mercury died.
I remember thinking that I wasn’t happy everyone was comparing him to Jimmy Hendrix, Jim Morrison, and Janis Joplin, saying he joined the 27 club. The fact that he killed himself felt like an exclusionary detail.
The others did too, just not intentionally, at least as far as we know.
I think this is one of the first generations where kids, in general, listen to softer pop music compared to their parents.
Because there’s more money in it, and everything is all about money now.
I always was about the money. Nirvana even named one of their songs Radio Friendly Unit Shifter.
If all the kids wanted to listen to death metal, there would be death metal on the radio.
It has always been about money for the labels, but they at least used to take risks, and find new talented bands, develop them, and promote them. But it’s riskier and takes a lot more work. An artist needs a minimum of about 10,000 hours of experience before they’re studio ready, and the whole band needs to be at that level. If they find someone new and unique at that level, they still need to develop them as performers, and get them prepared to play big gigs, tour, work together in a studio, etc… It’s much easier for them to find someone attractive who knows some dance moves, and have them perform studio written songs based on proven profitable beats.
It’s much easier for them to find someone attractive who knows some dance moves,
You are describing The Sex Pistols. But they were harder than the music their parents listened to. (In the 1970’s, the parents would have listened to 1940’s music.)
What if you were more of an R.E.M. guy than a Nirvana guy?
Then go back to sleep
I remember when Michael Jackson died. Can I be old now too?
No! Get back to class!
I remember when James Earl Jones died. Did I do this right? It doesn’t work, I don’t feel much older now.
I was pretty young so I didn’t get it, I remember asking my brother what they’re going to do now, who’s gonna be the singer?
Imagine if he said, “the drummer, but he’s going to start a different band.”
Fuck… guess I’m old too. Not sure when that happened.
