Sunday, 10 February 2008

pop music



Pop Music

Michelle Malkin posts a piece noting a high percentage of pop music

contains references to mind altering substances.

The comment discussion set off is interesting and contains a comment

about not mentioning country music and its propensity to sing about

drunkenness, beer, and bourbon. Country and western music is at most a

sub-genre of pop music. I call it "pop music with a twang". Doesn't

mean I reject it out of hand but someone who tries to distinguish

country and western from top forty music does not convince me.

Same too with many other musics that people often characterize as

being in their own genres. Such as heavy metal, acid rock, hip-hop,


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