On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 11:19:38 EST SonataPathetique@aol.com wrote:
Elvis has nothing on Eminem. Elvis didn't even write his own music or lyrics. Eminem will be around for a long time.
That's a twisted way of looking at things. You seem to assume that somebody who writes his own songs is higher of the achievement scale that somebody who interprets them, and this regardless of the respective quality of the composer and interpret? With such argument, you can almost throw away all classical music business and a long line of fantastic performers who felt that interpreting great music (written by others) was better that trying to write mediocre ones. I wish Emanem (who BTW I don't know) to stick around for long, and not to become one more flavor of the month artist whose records will pile at Salvation Army. Patrice (who prefers a good interpret to a mediocre composer).