The Weekend

With the exception of John Williams, how many classical music artists do you know that write their own stuff? Michael Jackson didn’t play an instrument. Lots of rock singers barely do.

The Weeknd writes his own songs and has some collaborations.

Among the world’s best-selling music artists, with over 75 million records sold,[11] The Weeknd has won three Grammy Awards, five American Music Awards, nine Billboard Music Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, nine Juno Awards, and has been nominated for an Academy Award.

Also a net worth of $100M.

You may not like him, but obviously talented.

Today’s youth seem to care more about the choreography than the actual music. Growing up, you never saw Hendrix, The Who, Tull, Floyd, etc with dancers behind them.

What disingenuous trollop. How did Pete Townsend smashing guitars or Floyd’s lights and pyrotechnics enhance the music? It was as much ’performance" as anything today.

" Did you insist on correcting people and saying Gordon Sumner everytime someone said Sting? Guessing no."

- Actually, to be accurate, his name is: Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner. Is that racist too?    

dill try to fool someone else. Posting it once is pedantic even informative. Posting it twice as you did is trying to make something out of it, and not in a nice way. It is pretty obvious the goal.

1978. Al Hirt. I think Pete Fountain played one year. Not going to fly anymore as folks want fireworks and glitz. But at some point it may tilt back after the excess becomes tiresome to the jaded masses.