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Cover bands don't normally sell millions of albums and that is why
people don't complain about it.
--- In , Zone Fighter <zonefighter@g...>
wrote:
> Why doesn't everyone who complains about hip-hop performers not
> writing their own music complain about rock bands that do nothing but
> covers instead of write their own music?
>
> Hip-Hop is just another form of music. It is like an artist who does
> collages rather than oil paintings or sculptures. The original
> material isn't necessarily their own but what they create by cutting
> it up & rearranging it is no less art than an oil painting or
> sculpture. Is the cover of The Beatles Revolver LP art? I think so...
>
> It does take skill to create Hip-Hop music. The people saying it isn't
> music and it takes no skill sound like all the "Squares" complaining
> about Rock & Roll in the 1950's to me.
>
> Just my two cents....
>
>
> On 6/4/05, Dan Bartley <bigtwangguy@y...> wrote:
> > Yeah, I guess they didn't steal it, they bought it's useage. My
mistake.
> > But why not write a cool sounding surf guitar part instead of
buying one? Is
> > this what modern mainstream music has become? I ask this question
in all
> > honesty because I don't listen to it unless I'm exposed to it in a
store or
> > something.
> > Dan
