Silly love songs and Frank Zappa!

[madcap]

You got it right.... I dont give a fuck about silly love songs! Oh guess who I'd like to quote here? Frank Zappa! Like he wrote in his autobiography, 'The Real Frank Zappa Story'....

"I detest 'love lyrics'. I think one of the causes of the bad mental health in the United States is that people have been raised on 'love lyrics.'

"You're a young kid and you hear all those 'love lyrics,' right? Your parents aren't telling the truth about love, and you can't really learn about it in school. You're getting the bulk of your 'behavior norms' mapped out for you in the lyrics to some dumb fucking love song. It's a subconscious training that creates a desire for an imaginary situation which will never exist for you. People who buy into that mythology go through life feeling that they got cheated or something.

"What I think is very cynical about some rock and roll songs--especialy today--is the way they say: "Let's make love." What the fuck kind of wussy says shit like that in the real world? You out to be able to say "Let's go fuck," or at least "Let's go fill-in-the-blank"--but you gotta say "Let's make love" in order to get on the radio. This creates a semantic corruption, by changing the context in which the word 'love' is used in the song.

"When they get into drooling about love as a 'romantic concept'--especially in lyrics of sensitive singer/songwriter types--that's another shove in the direction of bad mental health."

Well there's Frank as frank for you! Real songwrites shouldnt care bout hits and popularity, they should care about making sense! Thats all folks! Adios!!

[Redneck4sure]

Yes but consider that this is the same person that named his kids something strange. I think it was Moonbeam and Dweasel or some such crap. I dunno and I am too lazy/stupid to look it up!

[Umma]

Well there's Frank as frank for you! Real songwrites shouldnt care bout hits and popularity, they should care about making sense! Thats all folks! Adios!!

Ah yes... clever words from the ever coherant Mister Zappa... :rolleyes:

Music is a business these days madcap... that's why a lot of the gooey stuff exists... there's a market for it, and people like it. So what about those who want to hear that sort of stuff? Have them shot at dawn?

[Redneck4sure]

Have them shot at dawn?

I like your thinking! :rolleyes: But why wait so long. I hate to get up early.

[desdemona]

zappa would be zapped like howard stern if he said that today