Ron Rosenbaum may be wrong, Billy Joel may be crazy
Last Friday, Slate ran an essay in which Ron Rosenbaum becomes the Zell Miller to Billy Joel’s John Kerry, a castigator so cartoonishly vehement, so intensely vengeful, that his attacks say more about the speaker than their target. In “The awfulness of Billy Joel, explained,” Rosenbaum launches an aimless and ineffective diatribe against the Piano Man, which as writing is sub-par (we expect better of Rosenbaum) and as intellectual argument is laughable.
Mayeral election
I’ve been periodically viewing CNN’s pre-Inauguration coverage, and noticing that they keep cutting to commercial with John Mayer’s “Waiting on the World to Change.” Because the historic new administration will apparently still make room for bland, horrendous music that struggles to make some sort of “deep” statement.
Obama’s first order of business ought to be a binding resolution that this song is a. horrible and b. meaningless. Beyond meaning that ol’ John is looking to bang activist chicks, and will resort to the most blatant pandering to do so. But then again, anybody who heard the Grammy-winning (what the fuck?!?) “Daughters” knows that Mayer is hardly above pandering.
I’ll still watch his variety show. Dude’s cracked more funny jokes than written good songs. Perhaps his entire career will eventually be revealed to be one wise-ass satirical mindfuck. A guy can dream…
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