music

i'm serious. so serious. i'm totally boycotting music produced after 1969 from here on out. for these reasons:

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the passion, the soul, there is nothing like that. i have not seen someone really feel to the core of who they are what they are singing. this makes me cry every time i see it. this is a HUGE festival with tons and tons of people and everyone is silent and in complete AWE of the talent on stage. this is the first major exposure that janis joplin got. and you know what she does? she sings the song. she feels it and she lets it out. she's not ridiculously attractive, she doesn't have choreographed dance moves, she is singing the song LIVE with no playback in her ear, she is there, live, not just performing the song, but FEELING all of it.


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if there is anyone i wish i looked like and dressed like it would be grace slick from jefferson airplane. she is an incredible vocalist and just so hip and cool. but still, it's about the music. and yeah, ok, so it's a lot about the drugs, too, but it doesn't matter to me. i appreciate it for the pure talent. it's frustrating to see acts now that get popular because there is not talent.



and yes, i am willing to admit even the bands that i listen to have nothing compared to the music from 1969 and earlier. nothing. i don't care who they are. even sufjan. he's too pretentious and i don't think he does it for the love of music.

now more than ever i want a time machine. i want to go the monterey pop festival. and i want to see the beatles live. without all the screaming girls. which would still be impossible even with a time machine, but still. let a girl dream.

i'm so glad my parents brought me up right listening to this music.