QUOTE OF THE DAY - AT 5:18 A.M. ET:  From British columnist Michele Hanson, on why Vera Lynn, singing sweetheart of the British forces in World War II, is topping the charts again at age 92:

“Lovely tunes have been out of favor for some time,” the columnist Michele Hanson wrote in The Guardian. “It’s been all screeching, thumping, rapping, crashing rage and multi-decibels, but not much melody and modulation, so perhaps we need a bit of a change.”

COMMENT:  I've been writing about the decline of popular culture at our Angel's Corner.  Michele Hanson is right.  It's time for a change - back to quality.

The exciting prospect here is that kids will hear those wonderful, beautifully written songs, with real melodies and well-crafted lyrics, and love them.  If their minds haven't been toasted already, they will.  And maybe enough of them will demand more of the same. 

September 21, 2009