mortified
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Post by mortified on Jul 8, 2019 9:38:30 GMT
To be fair, I watched Bruno Mars do the half time show at the Superbowl a few years back and he was quite impressive. Very James Brown, like you say. Better to watch than listen, though, I think. Ed Sheeran I think is a very talented individual who I reckon could turn his hand to just about anything. Alas, he tends to turn it to stuff I find unlistenable. I own one single - You Need Me, I Don't Need You which has a nice groove to it. But I have to hold my hands up and admit he has achieved world domination. And is as prolific as Prince! He has two songs in the iTunes top 10 at the moment and has yet another album available to pre-order. George Ezra I really can't stick and don't know what all the fuss is about. But then I'm not a girlie. Or is that too dismissive?
I just have to face up to it. I'm old and sound it
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frozenhero
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Post by frozenhero on Jul 10, 2019 12:33:42 GMT
Absolutely! And strangely proud of it I read that series of books and watched the TV progs and found I was relating to everything in them. And that must've been 15 years ago! I was practically still young! By the way, tell me how many of those acts I mentioned that you like To be fair, I DO like Ed Sheehan and own his first 3 albums. Bruno Mars has an old school mentality that I like, I saw him on tv a few years ago and all of the band were doing dance moves like James Brown or the Jacksons and it looked great. My daughter loves a lot of the music you mentioned so I have learned to like / tolerate it. Re the grumpy old man thing, I certainly fall into that category at times. God, everyone on here must hear the new song that Ed, Bruno and Chris Stapleton did together. It totally rocks, I'm not kidding! It sounds like a mixture of AC/DC and Lenny Kravitz... (And the acoustic version of "I Don't Care" is actually quite tolerable. It's the production/mixing/mastering that's to blame for a lot of today's sounds more than the songwriting, I think... "Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson & Bruno Mars is also one of the few pop hits of this decade I really like.) George Ezra on the other hand I also can't stomach at all. He's a bit like the male equivalent to Adele inasmuch as I always find his songs interesting when I first hear them, but it quickly turns into utter annoyance after two or more listens - and every new single seems to be worse and more annoying than the previous one!
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