Funny Connect Snafu...

[navsimpson]

Just thought I'd share this... I've been fooling around with Connect as it was just released here. It's pretty cool if you don't mind DRM'ed music. But take a look at this screen capture though - see anything wrong with their brassy declaration that this radio station is just about Rock Music?

-Nav

[JustAnUnCoolCat]

*hisses demonically, at seeing the Pussycat Dolls being included in a Rock Station...*

Yeah, but regardless of what i think, or what you think, at the end of the day, genres are kinda treated as opened ended and the accepted constraints of the classifications do kinda get abused somewhat.

Take for example, modern use of the R'N'B genre..

It's become the classic catch-all, give some creditability, genre almost everyone in music likes to essentially label their quasi-dance/ not quite blues.. not quite soul, not quite anything but plain old visual and aural fake attitude from 'i am too cool for words, so much it hurts' acts.

What really gets to me about that is, and i guess it means much the same for the totally devoted Rock fans to see the Rock genre being used like the example in the screenshot, that it's almost diluting what tends to constitute 'Rock'.

One of the few exceptions i tend to except as a crossover into Rock that really deserved to be one-paw in the genre, was the Run DMC cover of Walk This Way, as it was 50% performed/recored with a real rock band/blues band

Didn't do Aerosmith any harm did it, to have one of their classics revamped with a fresh and harder-hitting sound ??

Pussycat Dolls, the mere fact someone could dare to put them one-paw into the general Rock genre, is a sin....

May their inner kitten spirits hang their heads in shame, and purr sadly for eternally..

'Tom Kat'