{"id":15654,"date":"2012-09-21T12:07:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T16:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=15654"},"modified":"2012-09-21T15:04:46","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T19:04:46","slug":"i-hear-artist-puts-on-a-good-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-hear-artist-puts-on-a-good-show\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI hear [artist] puts on a good show.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Good show.<\/p><\/div>\n

Has anyone ever said the following you:<\/p>\n

I hear [artist] puts on a good show.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Have you ever spoken that phrase? I never quite get what people mean when they say that. I often hear it applied to artists for whom I have absolutely no musical interest, like Lady Gaga<\/strong> or Bette Midler<\/strong>, or for really cheesy artists who only have a few songs I can enjoy hearing for the guilty delights of their processed cheese, like Neil Diamond<\/strong>. The funny thing is, even the people who say this phrase in regard to a musically suspect artist don’t seem to care for the artist’s music. I guess I’ve never gone out for an evening expecting a “good show.”<\/p>\n

For me, music is music. Of course some performers are better on stage than others, but if I don’t like the music, how much can their stage presence affect my enjoyment of their show.\u00a0What the fuck can Neil Diamond possibly offer me live, through his “good show,”<\/em> I think to myself, when people say stuff like this. Does Neil tell great jokes or do a mind-blowing tap-dance routine?<\/p>\n

Madonna<\/strong> is an artist who is purported to put on a “good show.” I actually like a few of her songs, but primarily, when people utter this phrase in regard to her, I imagine they’re saying she’s hot<\/em>. Is that what they mean when they say Midler or Diamond put on a good show?<\/p>\n

I look forward to your thoughts on this matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Has anyone ever said the following you: I hear [artist] puts on a good show. Have you ever spoken that phrase? I never quite get what people mean when they say that. I often hear it applied to artists for whom I have absolutely no musical interest, like Lady Gaga or Bette Midler, or for […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}