"weird styles"
"larding the line"
"tricking it out"

These sneering put-downs are just another form of the great movement of today to make the average person sit down, shut up, let the experts do it and give them the money.

I was on a trip down the Grand Canyon recently with a group of friends, many of them musical. We were singing, and our guide said, "That's beautiful." Then she sat thoughtfully for a while and said, "You know, people don't sing anymore."

How sad.