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10 years ago
One of the few rare (and truly gifted) vocalist out there. And, yet - once again, one of the few rare (and truly gifted) vocalists who has not received the recognition he deserves as a vocalist.The Music Industry is so damn confused. It places non-vocalists such as Adele, Swift, Gaga, etc. (people who can't hold a tune in a bucket and have no significant fach whatsoever) into the stratosphere of *undeserved support, funding and highlight* - to the detriment of genuinely talented artists such as Daughtry, Sparks, Bernhoft, etc.The Music Industry Execs, suck. The Ryan Seacrest and Simon Cowell brand of promoting (not necessarily discovering) vocal talent has white washed the music industry with far too lesser talented "artists" who have mediocre vocal range at best. Swift, being one of the progenitors of this "New Error" of Globalized Folksy Music, has opened the door for other Non-Idol/Non-Vocalists such as Lady Gag Me With A Spoon Ga, Adele, Bieber, etc. That door of mediocrity would never have been open for anything but a local band warm-up act, in some dive bar on a back alley not even locatable on a brand new Rand McNally map.I've often wondered about the death of Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston, being so closely tied together in terms of timeline. I wondered then, just like I wondered now, what would Mike and Whitney, have to say about those who are now unfairly lauded as their "replacement."I think it was during the New York New Years celebration down on Times Square, where I heard Ryan Seacrest, tell his television audience that *"like it or not, this is what the new sound of American Music will be like going forward, folks."* His words, not mine. I had no idea what Ryan, meant that New Years night, but later that year, Whitney Houston, died in a hotel room after "drowning" in a "bathtub" - a likely official story.What did Ryan, mean? Did he know something that the rest of the world did not know? What was meant by the words: *"Like it or not...?"* Was he that good a judge of vocal talent - hardly.The Music Industry was intentionally re-directed away from real talent and real vocals performed with heart, soul and passion, to fake vocals, auto-tuned double platinum franchises and glorified fachless vocals that would not even qualify as an 'opener' at a Laura Branigan, cira 1987. That is the kind of vocal output being praised these days as "good sounding music."Thank goodness for voices like Daughtry, Jordin Sparks, Ariana Grande and the seniors of the bunch such as Christina Aguilera, etc., to name just a small few who do have real talent, wide vocal fach and genuine ability.Today, it is all about the buck. And, if that means selling dumbed down music, with even dumber lyrics, uninspiring musical arrangement coupled to unworthy vocals, to completely clueless people who apparently have done no homework on what real music is all about - then that's precisely what those who have transformed the Music Industry into the flaming joke that it is today, will do.Wake up, people. You've been hoodwinked, snookered and bamboozled into thinking that what you are hearing in the aggregate today is real music, delivered by really talented people. Neither, is the case in the aggregate.Sing on Daughtry. Sing on. You are one of the few who can anymore, while actually being recognized for having done it right.