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Music Appreciation

ProfessorGAC

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1. Watched It Yesterday

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue May 12, 2026, 11:48 AM

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He's right about the first guy bending himself into a pretzel to redefine songwriting.
Somehow, he gets to decide that songwriting is not what the rest of us thought it was for the last 100+ years.

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Highlight:

Rick Beato rips apart the NYT's list of greatest living songwriters...and then goes after the NYT music critics [View all] highplainsdem Monday OP

Watched It Yesterday ProfessorGAC Tuesday #1

Maddening, isn't it? I hate critics like that. highplainsdem Tuesday #2