From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017102316312093234-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > Was reading about some up and coming new country star this morning.  The   
   > guy looks like a biker hippie with a sort of baby face.   
      
   Well, at least it's somewhat different.   
      
   > Tat's, and all the attitude a 20- ish year old can manage.  Read a comment   
   > once about how young boys look interesting when they try to look like   
   > criminals.   
      
   There are plenty of older dudes who are into the  same Nonsense...and I   
   don't see what's such a turn-on about it - I think it's   
   Disgusting....because Criminals aren't cool - at any age, they're SCUM!   
      
   > It's the mismatch of a young face and the hard expression.  To me they   
   > just look like kids.  But that's from my 60+ perspective.  I know full   
   > well what makes young men tick, so they aren't fooling me, or pretty much   
   > anyone in my age bracket.   
      
   > Ok, back to the new Texas bad boy .......   
      
      
   > Cody Jinks.  Had to look up some of his music.  He sounds like a decent   
   > country style singer.   
      
   I've heard some of his material on you tube - just another stereotypical   
   so-called 'country' style, yet again...BORING!   
   I'm still waiting for the kind of uniqueness and diversity of styles that   
   was part of country, and everything else, back in the  '60s and before that.   
      
   > So that's good.  But the song was about how pw'ed he was ... how if he   
   > could he'd just go ahead and turn himself into a girl so as to not offend   
   > any actual women out there. Ok, maybe the song wasn't that bad, but that's   
   > how I heard it.  It wasn't about prison or working, or raising a family,   
   > or anything real. It was an young adult male singing about how   
   > pathetically guilty he feels for being a male.  Or something like that. I   
   > stopped listening somewhere about a minute in.   
      
   What's the title of that tune?   
      
   > All of that only matters as setup. Cody is a fine singer. I wish him well.   
   > My point is, he sings songs that arent' relevent to me.  Neither are   
   > Taylor Swift.   
      
   > What's the point ?   
      
   Taylor Swift writes what I refer to as silly songs...and SAD silly songs at   
   that, and I think everyone knows that, particularly her, which is why I   
   cover only one of her tunes - "I Knew You Were Trouble".   
      
   > Well, singers are, at a basic level, story tellers. That's what one critic   
   > likes about Cody. That he's " the real deal ", that his songs are honest   
   > and all that.  That he isn't fake ...   
      
   The old saying still rings true, Honesty is (still) the best policy.   
      
   > So singers are story tellers and need to be believable.  Of course they   
   > are only believable to certain target groups.  Taylor to 13 year old   
   > girls. Cody to 30 year old chicks.   
      
   If something is true, it's true, for any age.   
      
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   > That's one type of singer. The " real deal ", the guy or girl who has   
   > their audience convinced their songs are all from their actual life   
   > experiences.   
      
   If they're not from their actual life, they're going to have quite a   
   difficult time at being convincing ;)   
      
   > Another type of singer is the one who can REALLY sing.  Guys like, eh, Tom   
   > Jones or something.  It wouldn't matter if they sing songs with stupid   
   > lyrics like " pussy cat pussy cat I love you .... bla bla bla "   
      
   I've always liked "What's New Pussycat", because I Love cats, so I change   
   the lyrics to be more appropriate for a real pussycat ;)   
      
   > The sing it so well, with such a nice vocal tone, and the looks, that the   
   > women fall all over the place.  Our, "other guy " in the band is one of   
   > these. Such a great voice that whatever he sings goes over.  That's a   
   > gift.  I don't have it, at least as much as him.  He can sing crap and   
   > make it sound great.   
      
   On the television show singing contests, like "The Voice", the coaches often   
   singing with emotion...but I've found the best way is to sing, and play,   
   with Conviction!   
      
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   > I've never thought about this much before. I was a guitar player. Cared   
   > about amps and tubes and technical stuff that no on in the audience gave   
   > two shits about. Now I need to start thinking like a singer.  Either sing   
   > great, or tell stories believably.  Life is so much fun. There's always   
   > things to learn.   
      
      
   Jim   
      
   Do it all with conviction and Vibe, an things will be Awesome!   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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