Regular readers will have seen my assessments of the rubbish music from the New School juniors in England. On top of the charts is a song by Jahmene Douglas that talks of domestic abuse but is sung like a love song. When Douglas is not singing, he is probably dreaming of becoming a woman.
Waters' music from forty years ago has more balls than there will ever be in the new generation and that's quite a shame as Pink Floyd was formed when the lads were about twenty. There's no reason to think Douglas will evolve into something cool in the future as he's not cool now and Pink Floyd was cool from the first moment. The consolation is that the absence of balls in the New School means there won't be another generation after them unless it is created by artificial insemination.
Roger Waters must have heard my complaints as he will be staging The Wall at Wembley and then at Manchester Stadium in two days on September 12th and 14th. For many, being rich doesn't seem that entertaining as they buy boats they can't sail themselves, aeroplanes they can't fly themselves, and expensive women who are quite capable of entertaining themselves ... just not with them. Waters takes being rich quite a different way and amuses himself by throwing concerts for tens of thousands of screaming fans. Who needs boats and planes when you can do that.
It's not too impressive that Pink Floyd has recorded nothing else in the last thirty years but The Wall stands as one of the most incredible accomplishments of the era and there's no chance the New School will ever record anything that comes close to that stature. Before rock there was Swing and before that there was one era after the other in a stunning array of musical diversity. And today there is the New School. Pass the hair gel and crank up the microphones for the worst music in the last two hundred years.
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