Elton John says the [a href="vny!://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007350453,00.html"]internet is bad and should be shut down[/a]. LOL! What a &*$^^! idiot. Some of his brilliant statements are quoted below. Mine are in [span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 191);"]blue[/span].
[hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"][span class="norm12"]He claims it is destroying good music, saying: "The internet has stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff. [span class="norm12"][span class="norm12"][span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"](Horsecrap. Since the net became available I've seen a wealth of amazingly creative stuff come from it, including music. There are [/span][/span][/span][span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"]entire networks of people who, using only their computers, instruments of choice, and the internet, make great music between each other. Yeah, they use that intarweb thingy to do it.[/span][span class="norm12"][span class="norm12"][span class="norm12"][span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"] [/span][/span][/span][/span][span class="norm12"][span class="norm12"][span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"]-tb)
[/span][/span][/span][/p] "Instead they sit at home and make their own records, which is sometimes OK but it doesn't bode well for long-term artistic vision. [span class="norm12"][span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"](Heaven forbid they make their own music and not rush right out to buy yours- that would just be wrong! [/span][/span][span class="norm12"][span class="norm12"][span class="norm12"][span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"]And as he complained about above, doesn't making your own music count as "[/span][/span][/span][span class="norm12"][span class="norm12"][span class="norm12"][span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"]creating stuff"? [/span][/span][/span][/span][/span][span class="norm12"][span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"]-tb)
[/span][/span][/p] "We're talking about things that are going to change the world and change the way people listen to music and that's not going to happen with people blogging on the internet.[/p] "I mean, get out there — communicate. [span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"](Ummm, that's what blogging is all about, Elton. -tb)[/span]
[/p] "Hopefully the next movement in music will tear down the internet."[span class="norm12"][span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"] (Hopefully the next movement will ignore your silly pop-music ass completely, you old fart. -tb)
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Elton John is just a lamer who fancies himself an expert on something he clearly knows next-to-nothing about. And lets not forget that Elton John writes almost NONE of his own stuff- a fellow named [a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 191);" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Taupin"]Bernie Taupin[/a] writes the lyrics and Elton sets them to music.
A comment from /.: "Check out [a href="vny!://www.theforeignexchangemusic.com/" title="theforeign...emusic.com"]The Foreign Exchange[/a]'s album [a href="vny!://www.amazon.com/Connected-Foreign-Exchange/dp/B0001ZMWWI" title="amazon.com"]"Connected[/a]". North Carolina-raised MC Phonte, one-third of Little Brother, and Dutch producer Nicolay formed the duo and crafted the ethereally lush hip-hop album without ever meeting face-to-face. Using the marvels of modern technology, the group traded verses and tracks over the Internet."
From [a href="vny!://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007350453,00.html"]vny!://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007350453,00.html[/a]