My last post gave me some inspiration for this.
While I do believe that Don't Stop Believing by Journey is good song, it's extrememly overplayed. This song is incredibly popular, being one of the only songs from the 80's still being played on pop stations (besides Michael Jackson, of course).
What irks me the most is not the actual song itself, but some of the listeners themselves. The people that claim "Oh, I listen to classic rock!" and list this song as their only example are...well...superficial. Yes, you know one song that wasn't made in the past three months. Good for you. But that doesn't make you a listener of the classics. If that person really listened to classics (and I usually define the classic era as the 60's and 70's), they would know much more than one simple, overplayed song.
On the other hand, having the song on popular radio stations can be somewhat of a good thing. The song exposes the talent-starved pop population of actual skill, with actual instrumentals in place of that digital no-skill synthesized junk (and not the 80's synths either). I don't really know if someone would be truly inspired to pick up guitar from just this one song, but it'll at least show what an intrument does.
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