{"id":794,"date":"2014-05-28T12:07:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T20:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=794"},"modified":"2014-05-28T12:07:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T20:07:29","slug":"its-been-a-long-time-since-ive-heard-or-read-the-word-schlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/its-been-a-long-time-since-ive-heard-or-read-the-word-schlock\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve heard (or read) the word &#8220;schlock&#8221;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/its-been-a-long-time-since-ive-heard-or-read-the-word-schlock\/\" data-text=\"It&#038;%238217;s been a long time since I&#038;%238217;ve heard (or read) the word &#038;%238220;schlock&#038;%238221;&#038;%238230;\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;It means inferior, damaged or otherwise of poor quality\u00a0and I&#8217;ve never used it to refer to the quality of music. \u00a0I&#8217;d always heard it used to refer to certain&#8230;ahem..&#8221;combustibles&#8221; of poor quality. \u00a0But using it to refer to the quality of music is what Jody Rosen does in this Vulture.com article <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2014\/05\/jody-rosen-in-defense-of-schlock-music.html\" target=\"_blank\">In Defense of Schlock Music: Why Journey, Billy Joel and Lionel Ritchie Are Better Than You Think<\/a>. \u00a0<\/em>Rosen spends a fair amount of ink (electrons? pixels? bandwidth?) explaining that if you&#8217;ve ever read or paid any attention to music critics you would know that almost all popular music, past and present, is considered schlock by those critics. \u00a0And despite the critic&#8217;s&#8230;err&#8230;criticism, the music was and is commercially successful, widely popular and has stayed popular over time. \u00a0Huh. \u00a0I can&#8217;t really decide if the article is a true defense of the music, a defense of the critics who deemed the music schlock, or an idictment of the public for embracing and consuming the schlock tunes because about halfway through the article I started to lose the will to live &#8211; no offense meant to Jody Rosen. \u00a0Anyhoo&#8230;I don&#8217;t care. \u00a0Beauty is in the eye of the beholder as they say (or\u00a0so I&#8217;m told that they say) and I don&#8217;t need a critic to tell me if a painting is good, or if I should like a song. \u00a0I know what I like when I hear it. \u00a0I DO NOT LIKE <em>The Pina Colada Song<\/em> &#8211; just want to get that out there. \u00a0Now THAT is some schlock. \u00a0God, now I&#8217;ve got that in my head.<\/p>\n<p>So in the critics&#8217; opinions, my taste in music runs to &#8220;schlock&#8221;. \u00a0Everyone has their opinions &#8211; one man&#8217;s schlock is another man&#8217;s&#8230;umm&#8230;something that&#8217;s good music. \u00a0Let&#8217;s try that again. \u00a0One man&#8217;s schlock is another man&#8217;s..BACH! \u00a0Awesome. \u00a0Just find something you like and let it make you happy!<\/p>\n<p>Here is number 109 from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2014\/05\/150-greatest-schlock-songs-of-all-time.html\" target=\"_blank\">The 150 Greatest Schlock Songs \u00a0of All Time:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I_etU9MED4k\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Althouse<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet &#8230;It means inferior, damaged or otherwise of poor quality\u00a0and I&#8217;ve never used it to refer to the quality of music. \u00a0I&#8217;d always heard it used to refer to certain&#8230;ahem..&#8221;combustibles&#8221; of poor quality. \u00a0But using it to refer to the quality of music is what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}