We live in a country that values giving “the people” a voice. However, those people and their voices can often say some very, very stupid things.
We learned that in two different places today. On one hand, the Baseball Writers Association of America embarrassed themselves (again) by only electing Andre Dawson to the Baseball Hall of Fame, despite the presence of at least half a dozen other deserving players on the ballot. However, this isn’t a sports blog. This is a music blog. Therefore, it’s with great sadness that I present you with this link.
Did you catch all that? Rolling Stone’s readers elected Green Day to be the best musical artists of the past ten years. They also thought that Green Day’s American Idiot was the best album of the decade and that “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams” was the top single. Needless to say, I’ve got more than a few problems with this. I refuse to believe that two overblown concept albums, fueled by sloganeering, reductive politics and just plain ignorance, qualify a band to be the best of the decade. Oh, and Warning, which no one bought. No matter who you feel deserves a title as awkward as “Best Artist of the Entire Decade,” you should have someone higher on the list of nominees than Green Day.
However, this is apparently what people want. Democracy in action, folks. We live by it, we die by it. And, today, Green Day have won some undeserved accolades by it.
We learned that in two different places today. On one hand, the Baseball Writers Association of America embarrassed themselves (again) by only electing Andre Dawson to the Baseball Hall of Fame, despite the presence of at least half a dozen other deserving players on the ballot. However, this isn’t a sports blog. This is a music blog. Therefore, it’s with great sadness that I present you with this link.
Did you catch all that? Rolling Stone’s readers elected Green Day to be the best musical artists of the past ten years. They also thought that Green Day’s American Idiot was the best album of the decade and that “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams” was the top single. Needless to say, I’ve got more than a few problems with this. I refuse to believe that two overblown concept albums, fueled by sloganeering, reductive politics and just plain ignorance, qualify a band to be the best of the decade. Oh, and Warning, which no one bought. No matter who you feel deserves a title as awkward as “Best Artist of the Entire Decade,” you should have someone higher on the list of nominees than Green Day.
However, this is apparently what people want. Democracy in action, folks. We live by it, we die by it. And, today, Green Day have won some undeserved accolades by it.
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