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Thread #66099 Message #1493174
Posted By: GUEST,Art Thieme
25-May-05 - 05:54 PM
Thread Name: BS: what is love
Subject: RE: BS: what is love
I will try to look at this as if this question was being asked within a musical thread in a forum about folk songs:
Love is what most pop songs are about because, being a universal feeling, it is the topic most easily SOLD to the most people by those in charge of the music business.
Folk songs, on the other hand, are often topical and about fairly specific geographical places, and also many various eras and times. It would not be easy to SELL those songs to an entire modern nation's people because many of those people don't live where the tales told in the songs are relevant. I.E. lumberjack songs from the USA would not likely be in the songlists of cowboys unless they did the hard work necessary to become receptive to those songs.
Only those people interested in history and the big graphic tales, take the time and make the efforts necessary to appreciate the actions therein.
A good tune makes it all the better---maybe even easy to dance to.
I give it a TEN !!
Art Thieme