>>What I'm questioning is why this trend--i.e. this *change*--is only notable to marketers and certain segments of the public when it occurs in predominantly white music.
The change/trend has been around in predominantly black music for quite a while. And most of the white public, including much (though *certainly* not all--hi Bob!) of this list is completely ignorant of it.<<< In my world the s-s trend has always been happening (if not commercially)...i am just happy that there is some evidence that kids are interested in this genre again...i guess it is to be expected...the music pendulum is always swinging...imo its best to stay with the genre definition rather than the literal definition of singer/songwriter because that is how the biz uses it... Someone asked if we could get back to dissing Jewel & B Spears...Okay, tho i haven't bought any of the B Spears records, I watched her Las Vegas concert the other night on HBO. Her dancers were good...lots of lights & cool sets...she didn't really dance...her moves were skips, hops, hip & head swivels...& her vocals were mixed real low...to her credit it is hard to sing & dance at the same time & she had a lot of choreographed moves to remember...but the overall impression i got was that it was a sex show...which is fine for adults...but when they showed all the young kids in the audience...to my mind this was pretty age inappropriate... Which is one reason why it is heartening to me to hear that kids may be are interested in singer/songwriter genre music... ******************************************** Kate Bennett www.katebennett.com sponsored by Polysonics www.polysonics.com Discover the Indies at Taylor Guitars: http://www.taylorguitars.com/artists/awp/indies/bennett.html ********************************************
