Yes, Diki, every generation of new music was initially rejected. But in the long run, it eventually became accepted because it was STILL music.

Of course, the big Labonza of an example of the musical revolution was R&R in the 50's (and Ed S. only allowing Elvis to be seen from the waist up). Looking back over our shoulders, we see now what we didn't see then. Although R&R was the new kid on the block, there was still melody in the music and still a "beat," only a different beat now. And what makes it even more interesting is these guys made great music and thousands of songs with simple standard 3-4 chord progressions.

Now here's the proof that today's music is not accepted and probably never will be. I still stay in touch with the DJ world. Every 7 days I go to the Billboard site and enter the names of the latest tunes into my database. Been doing this for years. The one thing that stands out is how a new song can land on the charts in the Top 10 overnight, and be completely gone again in a few weeks. High School Musical was the hottest album for all of last summer for the kids I work with. This year it was High School Musical 2 and that didn't even last to the end of the summer before it was forgotten.

These kids today don't remember a song from 2 weeks ago, Britney Spears is completely out of the loop together with Justin Timerlake and the Backstreet Boys, etc.

Compare that with folks today who are still remembering and singing 50's songs. 'cause it was music!

These late nights are killing me!

BTW.....what does "excoriated" mean?

Lucky