The fact that he's had such a long ass career really doesn't speak well of the musical sensibilities of many many people. I think "Jack and Diane" is fucking insufferable, and really very boring both lyrically and musically. And that's his high point.
"Jack and Diane" is the Rocky Horror Picture show of music. For Rocky you must see it is a movie theater late at night with people acting out the movie, and the audience participation. Probably not for the audience here.
The difference for "Jack and Diane" is that this song along with Simon and Garfunkel and others make great songs to sing while on school bus trips for sports or band events.
The thing that makes these great is you tend to see/hear them in high school while hanging out with friends. It seems like those days are gone. This music will die out.
Well, I have to disagree with the analogy here. When I first saw RHPS it was out in public with all that going on and I thought it suuuucked. Eventually I got curious and rented the thing, and was like, wait a minute, this is actually surprisingly well done. The music, the cinematography, to a certain extent the acting (purposefully bad, which is a trick in and of itself), Curry's outrageous performance - not to mention that when you really look at it, it is not glorifying all the excess and debauchery, but rather pointing out it's not that great after all.
It's precisely because "you must see it in a movie theater etc etc" that for most it remains criminally underrated as an actual movie.
Yeah it's funny I consider myself pretty conservative but RHPS for some reason I like it. Guess that was before the tranny thing took over too much and it was just fun debauchery - and maybe you're right in the end all the hedonists/aliens/genderweird people end up badly and the two virtuous people, the blond dude and susan sarandon, end up running away together (and having an assumed 'happy ever after' )
This two-hit wonder always was a musical hack. Glad he learned a harsh lesson. People want to be entertained, not preached to.
The fact that he's had such a long ass career really doesn't speak well of the musical sensibilities of many many people. I think "Jack and Diane" is fucking insufferable, and really very boring both lyrically and musically. And that's his high point.
"Jack and Diane" is the Rocky Horror Picture show of music. For Rocky you must see it is a movie theater late at night with people acting out the movie, and the audience participation. Probably not for the audience here.
The difference for "Jack and Diane" is that this song along with Simon and Garfunkel and others make great songs to sing while on school bus trips for sports or band events.
The thing that makes these great is you tend to see/hear them in high school while hanging out with friends. It seems like those days are gone. This music will die out.
Well, I have to disagree with the analogy here. When I first saw RHPS it was out in public with all that going on and I thought it suuuucked. Eventually I got curious and rented the thing, and was like, wait a minute, this is actually surprisingly well done. The music, the cinematography, to a certain extent the acting (purposefully bad, which is a trick in and of itself), Curry's outrageous performance - not to mention that when you really look at it, it is not glorifying all the excess and debauchery, but rather pointing out it's not that great after all.
It's precisely because "you must see it in a movie theater etc etc" that for most it remains criminally underrated as an actual movie.
Yeah it's funny I consider myself pretty conservative but RHPS for some reason I like it. Guess that was before the tranny thing took over too much and it was just fun debauchery - and maybe you're right in the end all the hedonists/aliens/genderweird people end up badly and the two virtuous people, the blond dude and susan sarandon, end up running away together (and having an assumed 'happy ever after' )