As music fans coast into the last half of December—with the excitement of both the recent American Music Awards and the Grammy Awards concert behind us—one thing is obvious: Nothing new is any good!
Well, maybe that’s an overstatement. Something probably is!
Still, as I look at my carefully compiled list of the week’s most interesting album releases, it does strike me as odd than more than half are either reissues of older material—by artists who’ve already had their commercial day—or just weird old stuff that, to be frank, is a heck of a lot better than everything else! It doesn’t make sense that entire industry would simply throw its hands up in the air, admit defeat, and spend the remainder of its dying days profiting from countless repackages of music recorded long ago, does it?
But then, of course, it hits me: This week R. Kelly has released his brand new album, Black Panties, and nothing will ever be the same again!
Especially human dignity!
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