TS: Lawrence Welk vs. Lil Jon

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/11/national/11welk.html

"That music, which was considered square even in its heyday, is not so much back as it is unexpungeable, a vein of American taste that survives despite the best efforts of critics, television programmers and cultural gatekeepers. It has outlasted the Twist, the New Look, the 1970's, the 1970's revival and the Macarena, to say nothing of the vogue for all things crunk."

― Mediawhore, Saturday, 11 September 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

"The same student then told me he was classifying various blues singers by types and when he came to 'soul singers' I asked him what he meant and he answered 'someone like Ray Charles or Aretha Franklin.' I asked him if Perry Como had soul and he said 'no'. Now the word soul has been used and abused. Como has soul but it his own brand of soul...."
-Ralph Bass, in the liner notes to "Muddy Waters: Folk Singer"

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 11 September 2004 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

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