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Dionne Warwick Says There’s No More Classic Or Iconic Artists: ‘Not Yet’ (2019)

I absolutely agree with her.

Most of the singers and bands today – those under the age of 40 – are putting out absolute dreck. I am willing to come right out and say it like it is, but Warwick, God bless her, is trying to dance around the subject and be more polite about it.

I seriously doubt 50 years from now, many people will feel nostalgic for, or even remember, most of the bands and singers who are releasing music today, or remember most of the songs from the early 00s to the present, because most of the music from around the early 2000s to the present has been total and utter garbage.

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Dionne Warwick Says There’s No More Classic Or Iconic Artists: ‘Not Yet’

May 22, 2019

“THAT’S NOT, AS YOU GUYS WOULD SAY, ‘THROWING SHADE,'” WARWICK TELLS ESSENCE.

by Danielle Young

She’s baaaack! Dionne Warwick, the songstress who has given us 58 years of chart-topping classics such as “What The World Needs Now” and “Say A Little Prayer,” ain’t done yet. The singer has returned with a new album, aptly titled, She’s Back [read more about Warwick here].

….Musical OG, Dionne Warwick stopped by ESSENCE to talk about her new album, “She’s Back,” but spilled the tea on how today’s music will yield no classics.

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If you’re Gen X as I am, you may remember that back in junior high and high school there were cliques, and some of them divided themselves up on the basis of what music they listened to.

Or, the cliques (which may have consisted of jocks, dweebs, surfers, or what have you) all naturally seemed to gravitate towards one type of music or another.

And sometimes, one could find a “metal head” (heavy metal fan) mocking or making fun of the kid who was into Michael Jackson, for instance.

It went from being acceptable to find Michael Jackson cool in the early or mid 1980s to being considered nerdy by other kids if you still admitted to liking him or his music by the late 1980s or so.

I remember one day, in my sophomore year of high school, before math class started, that the resident stoner metal head guy (who normally wore “Iron Maiden” band t-shirts to school) was being teased by a black guy about his metal fandom when the white metal kid shot back, “And I guess you’re a big Michael Jackson fan!” – That was considered a put-down.

By that time, MJ was out of favor with a lot of kids. If you were a MJ fan, you were supposed to keep it to yourself and not advertise it around other kids.

Anyway, that’s about as heated as things got.

But kids in the 1980s more or less politely agreed to disagree with each other over whatever singers or bands other kids enjoyed. Another kid may find your favorite singer or taste in music lame, and even tell you so, but things never got terribly heated.

Not so today.

Today, on social media, even among 20- and 30 something adults, one can find the fan groups (fandoms) of various singers going at each other’s throats.

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