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Originally Posted by TheSaint
I think in future generations they will be compared to Bethoven, Mozart, Bach or whatever. They were composers, and incredibly prolific ones, turning out songs, sometimes more than 1 a day. Don't get me wrong, I like today's music but musicians today are "performers", the Beatles were composers, no comparison.
Yeah, they invented a genre, made a few billion, changed things around, I would say that is not pathetic.
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Your observation is spot on IMO. Though I have to say, most of the "performers" in this day and age barely classify as musicians, they're more like a product than anything else.
Thomas