On Apr 4, 2006, at 1:22 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
Robert C L Watson wrote:
Current commercial (c)rap - not that I can bear to listen to it for
long - is sloppy and irregular in metre, and has either non-rhymes
such as "time" and "fine", or other symptoms of illiteracy. (Back to
the topic of literacy.) Hardly comparable to sophisticated works
from musical theatre.
What gets to me is that this *exact same* criticism was leveled at
folk music 40 years ago:
"The tune don't have to be clever
And it don't matterifyouputacoupleofextrasyllables into a line,
It sounds more ethnic if it ain't good English,
And it don't even gotta rhyme--excuse me, 'rhyne.' "
--Tom Lehrer, 1964
Heh, heh! I don't think it was "criticism" per se, just very clever
satire (yet with an element of truth, like all good satire!)
(my daughter is learning the periodic table in school, so I pulled out
Lehrer's "The Elements" for her; she cracked up.)
Christopher
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