The best music yet to come?
From a personal perspective, music in the 60's and 70's was really changing society and American culture from being conformist to idealist like the counterculture, protest music, and songs that really were wide gapping. You had the Rock revolution begin in the 50's with Elvis and Little Richard, then the explosion began with the Beatles and then the acid rockers on both sides of the continent. I see Madonna as a person who came along at the right place at the right time. she is not a Jimi Hendrix or a Pink Floyd type talent, she knows how to market herself very well but she still what isn't like the Floyd or the Dead are in my ball park. Madonna would have sucked at a place like Woodstock or Monterey festivals. That in itself sums up my opinion of today's music. It sucks quite frankly. Its too commercial and too slick and corporate. Even if someone tried to shake it up, they fall into the same trap of commercialization. It happened in the 80's and the same way with the grunge bands and alternative bands of the 90's and they thought they were really different. Now look at them, even Pearl Jam.