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According to FOX, Iranians have deployed squadrons of small boats to completely shut the straight down.

Vance says…..sensitive negotiations continue.

WTF?

I knew you would be here. LMAO!!!

The musicianship, writing, production and preforming of pop peaked somewhere between 1974 - 1980.

One simple way of proving the above statement would be to go back and take a look at every Top 40 song between 1974 and present day and track the slow death of the bridge in pop music. In the mid 70's the vast majority of songs had a bridge, a third part that allowed songwriters and performers to stretch and bring a different feel to a song. The bridge began to die (along with songwriting and performing ability) around the early 80's.

Can a song be great without a bridge? Sure it can, however it's a simple measurement that shows the change in songwriting skill.

Rap and Hip Hop has now destroyed multiple generations of what could have been the next Quincy Jones or David Foster. No longer in need to become proficient at reading or writing music or learning an instrument, one look at the state of high school band departments proves this. Gone are the small school bands, replaced by drum lines only.

Producers seldom have the same abilities that those of the 70's had. Schooled musicians with the ability to not only hold the hand of the artist, but make meaningful contributions to both the writing and performing of material as it was being recorded.

Regardless of whether it was rock, metal, pop, or country, during the peak of songwriting and recording, the producers were almost all schooled musicians who helped guide the bands through the process. Hell, when Bob Ezrin began recording Destroyer with KISS back in 1975, the band has openly admitted they didn't even know how to correctly tune their guitars.

it's all tied together to a large degree.

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No, you do not.

This bitch is still melting. LMAO.

Don’t let this distract you from the fact that we can’t “put away” Iran.

Not sure this is the flex someone believes it to be

Joke or not.

Cringe

It’ll be Theo or Lainey

Look, you take the good with the bad when it comes to Lane.

Yep, none will ever have that smoke show. :bow:

Old Night Vision is tore up over Kiffin :lol: