Safely said, Jerry. Actually, I DO admire her for what she's done to improve herself, and nurture and exploit her talents. I've read a bit about her......she's worked hard at her profession and now she's on the payoff end.

I think you missed my point, though, about the music itself. I don't knock the show that she put on. I knock the music they give her to do (or she picks herself). Nothing memorable. No brilliant formula songs like ABBA used to come up with almost every time.

I worked appx 15 years as a pro DJ (in addition to playing live). My most requested songs were evergreens....Sinatra, 70's disco hits, 60's standard, Springsteen, Billy Joel, Motown, etc....very, very rarely did I ever get contemporary music requests from adults, unless it was for their kids.

I never forgot what I read many years ago. A song will not be remembered as genuine music unless you can "hum the melody" of it. Think about that.......I do often.

I'm not complaining about the show.......I thought it was a brilliant production. Just NOT for ME.

And.....I almost forgot....another experience from my DJ days. A middle-aged women approached me (around 2005) and asked for a recent song. I knew the song, and by any standards it was just plain awful. I was curious. I asked what she liked about the song. The answer was: she didn't particularly like the song.....she just wanted to "feel young"....another way of saying she "didn't want to feel" old.

I venture to say there just might be 160 million people out there who feel the same way!