[NewMusic] Sting is bored with today's rock music

[Joseph Zitt]

Matt Davignon wrote:
> What I still can't figure out is what drives artists like Sting and
> Phil Collins to make lame music as they grow older. When I was younger
> I thought it was a function of aging. (Once you're over 40, things
> like Michael Bolton and Kenny G start sounding damn good.) Now I know
> more people doing amazing things who are 10 years older than me than
> 10 years younger. In a way I'm getting philcolonized in that loud
> explosive noises by themselves don't excite me as much as when I was
> younger, but in another way I'm not because the music I'm listening to
> has much more going on.

I find myself getting increasingly interested in music that I would have 
derided as unbearably sappy a few years ago. Perhaps it's not so much a 
matter of aging as working in a corporate CD shop, but I find myself 
really connected to some incredibly middle-of-the-road stuff.

Last night I was in an improv where we were working with elements from 
pre-existing music. I had chosen as my source material the Love Theme 
from the movie "Love Story." As I worked with it, I found myself 
realizing what a wonderful melody it is, and thinking that singing it 
straight through felt more rewarding than fragmenting it.

But Rod Stewart should still have been put out of his (our?) misery 
years ago...