It amazes me how much bad music is released each year. This is throwaway Latin dance hop. I'm sure if you were at a club and this was cranking over the loudspeakers you would just move to the beat and never notice how dull the beats are and how juvenile the lyrics are, but that doesn't excuse producing such boring music. Following the Rhapsody rating method I give it 0 out of 5 stars for Don't Like.
The music sounds different, and the people look different--but the spin on fatalism that's in this song is all over coal-mining culture.
ReplyDeleteThat makes sense, given that Keats died of TB when he was only 25. The coal miners know all about death from lung disease.
ReplyDeleteMy wife talks about this quite a bit. She saw it the whole time she grew up that the coal miners around here--in broad strokes; there are, of course, anomalies--were huge into spending money on fun stuff to do today. Her dad, on the other hand, who chose to stay out of the mines and instead become a mechanic for a company, is still inclined to not spend a dime on fleeting fun even now well into retirement.
ReplyDeleteMickey Mantle came from a mining town, and I think his dad died when he was about 39 or 40. Mantle famously claimed that one of the main reasons he lived the way he did is that he never expected to live past 40.
ReplyDeleteIt is a hard, hard land.
ReplyDeleteI woke up from a nightmare at 5 this morning in which I was riding at the front and on top of a train, just as it was entering a tunnel that was quickly narrowing. It was awful. I have really harrowing nightmares quite often.
ReplyDelete