Boy did John Edwards' popularity went down the pipe didn't it? The
man seemed to have it all and then a weak moment and now he's in the
soup. I would have given any candidate who made John their VP my
support, I think he had some great ideas but his little head was making
decisions for him. But let's not throw all the blame on him, after all
the hussy who made the allegations was probaly into threesomes and
moresomes. Gotta feel bad for the baby who has to have her as a
mother. One three minite affair can ruin a lifetime of achivements and
it has done it to John Edwards. He's probaly no different now than to
old Slick Willie who may have screwed some intern but at least he
wasn'tt screwing the country like the idiots we have in congress and the
white house is doing now.
The latest blog from Bob Lefsetz has gotten him in trouble with John
Mellencamp. In the Weekley Sales Review he blasted Mellencamp's album
by the so called lack of sales and John Mellencamp actually read it and
responded in his own way. And so did Elaine, John's wife. I believe
that John still cares enough in his music to bite back to critics
although whatever reason he had for annoying America with Our Country in
those Chevy commercials one can only guess. It got him more expose
that way but in the process annoyed enough of us to not buy it or change
the music channel when it came on. These are tough times in the music
world and since the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to which killed radio
and music, the starving artist has very limited ways and means to get
the music out So many music stations out there, ya'd think it would be
easier but it's worser than ever. I'm sure Bob will respond in his own
way but I do admire Mellencamp for standing up to his own beliefs.
In this day and age there's way too much empasis on the shock and awe
negativity that is Mainstream America anymore. We see it all the time
in dumbass reality crap shows, or list shows such as Best Week Ever as
30 something unfunny-living at home-in-daddy's-basement jackasses try to
make funny barbs about things in life and about celeberites who has no
bearing on my life, let along yours. Nobody promotes new music anymore,
all we get is 40 year old playlists of the same 200 songs each and
every day and what gets promoted is usually a 30 second clip at the end
of a boring reality show. I think John Mellencamp is one of the more
honest singer songwriters out there but I didn't review his last couple
albums since they came out on cheap digipaks and I am not a big fan of
digipaks. His new album is produced by John Henry Burnett (T Bone) and
Burnett has done wonderful things with Robert Plant's last recording.
But I haven't been paying much attention to Mellencamp lately, fact is
the last album I did review from him was the hodge podge Rough Harvest
album of 1997. I respect his opinions and give him points for standing
up to the crabby old fart who slammed his album, but I have to also say
that Our Country overexposed commercials turned me off into buying his
last album. Till he can stick them in a jewel case, I'll doubt that
I'll review this album. Digipaks get lost in the shuffle here.
It's a shock to see Bernie Mac passing away at age 50 friday night. I
think he was one of the funniest black comedians that we have had in
this decade and his Bernie Mac show reminded me of a more rowdier Cosby
show. Death is a strange thing, we forget a artist or a musician till
we see their name in the orbituarties. Everybody dies in the end but
we're never prepared anyway. The Bernie Mac Show is seen at 2:30 in the
morning around here to which late night ratings has it neck and neck to
the Pinpoint Doppler Radar Show on KCRG. Bernie will be missed by all.
