Personally, I listened to the Doors and the Beatles. The Stones and Clapton still had a presence in the 80's and beyond. I suppose we all generally like the music from when we were teens, perhaps as nostalgia. With that being said, I like a lot of the music today, as well. While my daughters will sometimes say, "Could you turn off you iPod and put on the radio," I don't mind a lot of the popular music. I can sing "Uptown Funk" with my kids because it's a fun song.
teen chicks dont really like this music. i know they have a billion groupies but those are dude bands. teen chicks have always liked shitty pop and always will as proof of teenybop music from the 50s on. i mean how else do you explain stacey saying madonnas music holds up well. they had the bubblegum rock or whatever which probably started in the late 60s but it wasnt this horrible. even the bad music you had to be somewhat competent musically. when mtv came out, you liked bands because of their image and it hadnt stopped since. talent was secondary. now american idol and the others have compounded this to a regressive level. and theres no end in sight. country is pop. radio rock is pop. pop is pop. thank god for streaming. (and its etc.)
I must say that I tend to agree. There are some female fans of serious rock music, but not many. Not a lot of serious female jazz and blues fans either. It's pretty much all pop, "soft rock", "cool jazz", and light country. Yes it was. David Cassidy, Bobby Sherman, Jackson 5, Donnie Osmond, The Archies . . . wretched, wretched music.
The teen movies of that time are mild entertainment and never meant as great classics. I think that decade was a lot of self-absorption and cocaine. Of the intentionally serious movies, Amadeus and Platoon would be on my list. Lots of the best picture winners don't seem that great to me now. MJ....okay, talented and solid dance music. But he didn't play an instrument or write anything prolific IMO. His productions were just that and great vehicles to really launch MTV and longer format videos, etc. Prince? Better before Purple Rain. Dude is talented but lacks ability to translate. I saw him live with Sheila E and she outperformed him by a mile. Madonna? Lord....please say it ain't so. She is a talentless over produced hack who couldn't sing her way out of a plastic bag if necessary. Plus, she's pure bitch. I don't much care for most of today's pop stars but Taylor Swift will be in another category IMO. She writes. She writes about her life and it translates. As she gets older, I expect she may head back to her original roots and more of a countrified approach. I will always have more respect for a writer, guitar player, singer, performer over some music company produced product.
taylor swift is gonna be decent when she hits puberty mentally and eventually gets knocked up. because she'll then have a nice rack. she is an annoying sea ewe next thursday currently.
If you have never seen the directors cut of Amadeus, it is worth going out and getting it. A couple of very significant scenes were cut from the theatrical production that makes the complex relationships between these characters much more clear. I'm not a big fan of Platoon. It took itself way too seriously for me. My Namvet friends all say that Full Metal Jacket is the best Vietnam movie, Platoon a distant second, and Apocalypse Now is a friggin' joke. I tend to agree, It doesn't hurt to be easy on the eyes, either. That was all about some purists who objected to the changes made from the Stephen King novel, so they remade it to be like the novel. Well, Stephen King may be a very good novelist, but Stanley Kubrick is an exception filmmaker and his film version of The Shining is far superior.
I like Platoon because it made me uncomfortable. Charlie Sheen is pure garbage but that was the first movie I saw with Willem Dafoe and I was impressed. Full Metal Jacket is far superior. I was simply going off the Oscar winner list although I'm not sure why. 1987 and that stupid Emperor movie won. Jacket is 10x the movie. I didn't see the remake. I like the original but the book is better.
