Fiver says, "SharonA, you're a folkie, the tastes of the pop music audience aren't ever going to make sense to you-- "

He don't know me vewwy well, do he?

Fiver, sometime when you've got the time, check out the songs I've parodied for the "Song Challenge!" threads; there you'll find far more popular songs than folk songs, because those are what I'm more familiar with. I'm told all the time that the songs I write sound like something one would hear on Broadway; that's not exactly folk music!! While I'm certainly interested in the genre, I'd have to call myself an ersatz folkie.

The thing is, the popular music that I enjoy is not "trance" music (as Mark so accurately calls it) or rap. I'll tell you one thing that "makes sense" to me: my observation is that the popular music of each generation invariably irritates the members of the previous generations, and I have no doubt that that is intentional and that it is done in order to generate sales.

I'd have to call myself a curmudgeon, too! :^)

Sharon

P.S. – I'd interpreted the quote "my son Chris said 'he's cool dad' and thirteen million albums later . . ." to mean that Taylor later found out that Shaggy's not so cool, and that Taylor's not so well compensated as he should have been.