The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns

Lip-synching detrimental to "singing and musical art"?

Oh, yes.

And how about banning tone deaf "artists" too? *sheesh* The reason I rarely listen to "music" on the radio any more is cos it's so hard to find any recordings where the "artist" can even FIND pitches, let alone pitches that fit the accomanyng instrumental tonalities.

While we're at it, if I were king of Americastan, rap would be punishable by ripping outrap "artists'" nose hair. For a start.

The majority of kids who listen to this top 40 "music" end up having no idea how to differentiate or reproduce recognizeable pitches, can't keep a steady beat and have innoculated their soul against any possible infection by music.

I still go to band and choral concerts given by pubschools. But I've started taking ear plugs with me, cos the attampts to play or sing music that has, like, you know, recognizeable tonailty is apparently beyond the ability of most kids.

*sigh*

And it's apparently beyond the abilities of most band and choral instructors to train the kids' ears in the limited time they have to work with students.

Yeh, this is just a small portion of my rant—not so much against contemporary music as against a recording industry that insists on MTV-ing everyone. Hey, if kids had singers with real chops to lip-synch to, at least tnhey'd be hearing decent performances (of usually crappy music).

(Excpetion: although I detest the vocal affectations of most so-called country singers, at least some of them seem to have the ability to sing on pitch, apart from problems introduced by the aforesaid vocal affectations. heh.)

Yeh, yeh, I know: long enough comment I oughta take it outside (to my own blog).

:-)

Just a question. Are you sure that the $5 coin failed? Perhaps after Iron Maiden was pelted somebody realized what a disaster it would be if those $5 coins were used at a concert like this, say, on Ashley Simpson. Granted, it's an expensive thing to throw, but sometimes it costs money to do the right thing.

With a son in 3rd year orchestra I most definately understand what David's talking about. My husband, who has a background in music and plays several instruments normally shakes his head the entire time we're at a concert. One good thing about hearing everyone that's bad though is that my son is really quite good, and it stands out like a roach on a wedding cake. LOL I don't allow rap in my house. They can turn Led Zeppelin up and rattle the windows and that's fine but I can't stand even the thought of rap.

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Really? I could give you are URL where you could chat with some of them, but most of them are tying ot leave. ;-)

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