Simmer down Johnny Cougar. Apparently you've never heard of the Bay City Rollers. That crap was on Carter's watch. This is all very rich coming from a man who didn't have the stones to use his own name to launch his career. Instead he relied on the corporate commercial tactic of a fake name. And now he has the gall to claim music "comes from the streets". Give it a rest you Springsteen wannabe. From News Busters:
While Time magazine honors Arianna Huffington as the Oracle of the Internet, anyone reading The Huffington Post knows it’s still a salon for liberal celebrities to channel their own self-involved conspiracy theories about how conservatism is ruining the world, and especially the world of the Artist. In a rant posted on Sunday night, '80s rock star John Mellencamp unfurled the theory that Ronald Reagan ruined the music business, and now it’s somehow impossible for musicians and bands to "percolate up" from the street:These nitwits never cease in blaming conservatives for their own incompetence. Does Mellencamp also blame Reagan for selling out by allowing his songs to be used in TV commercials?Reagan's much-vaunted trickle-down theory said that wealth tricked down [sic] to the masses from the elite at the top. Now we've found out that this is patently untrue -- the current economic collapse reflects this self-serving folly. The same holds for music. It doesn't trickle down; it percolates up from the artists, from word of mouth, from the streets and rises up to the general populace. Constrained by the workings of SoundScan/BDS [Broadcast Data Systems], music now came from the top and was rammed down people's throats....
Sadly, these days, it's really a matter of "every man for himself." In terms of possibilities, we are but an echo of what we once were. Of course, the artist does not want to "sell out to The Man." Left with no real choice except that business model of greed and the bean counting mentality that Reagan propagated and the country embraced, there is only "The Man" to deal with. There is no street for the music to rise up from. There is no time for the music to develop in a natural way that we can all embrace when it ripens and matures. That's why the general public doesn't really care. It's not that the people don't still love music; of course they do. It's just the way it is presented to them that ignores their humanity.
Mellencamp's statements indicate a remarkable stupidity. Just remarkable.
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I've never understood how liberals can deny trickle down. When wealthy business man or corporation is doing well, they tend to expand their business. This creates jobs not just wealth for him or her. They'll need to hire managers, accountants, secretarys, computer analysts, cleaning crews and food services people. Soon you see the hotdog vendor out front and that scary dude selling bootleg DVD's. All because someone was doing well enough to expand. Personally I like the saying "a rising tide lifts all boats" but trickle down is appropriate too. How many people has John Cougar hired lately?
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