All Money, All the Time
In Richard Brookhiser's article "All Junk, All the Time", Brookhiser explores elements of rock music which will never change because as he states "it is so easy to do well enough" (Brookhiser 607). He claims that popular culture rock music, or pop, is inferior to the musical stylings of classical, jazz, and show tunes. Contrary to these superior forms of music, rock music requires no talent, it uses repetitive lyrics to play to listeners with inferior intellect, and above all there is easy money to be made. Brookhiser's viewpoint may appear haughty or altruistic, but in reality his statement is fact. This type of satirical commentary has existed for generations and will for many more. His claim that drumming is easy and can be faked mirrors Voltairian commentary of long past. He argues that the guitar
is not a refined instrument and in support offers that this instrument does not require years of training and is not used as curriculum in university musical studies. A musical purist would argue that music industry moguls create rock groups to make money. A purist would also argue that when a group of friends meet in their parent's garage to practice a new song they've written their intention is to make good music, not good money. These people have aspirations of becoming great musicians. When they are introduced to the record company executives, lofty ideas of great music are often deserted by dreams of "making it rich." The record companies are interested in the marketability of their music and how they appeal to the public. Maybe the public doesn't always know good music when they hear it. Popular culture rock music is inferior. From the record moguls who make the mu
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Approximate Word count = 597
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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