[bomp] Re: Talent Is An Asset

[HOODOO3005@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 1/1/2003 2:02:34 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com writes:

> I know that Boy George was a fine
> >neo-soul singer, as was Paul Young and the guy with Fine Young Cannibals
> and
> >yadda yadda yadda, but that whole GENRE just wasn't my thing. I have no
> use
> >for any of those guys.
> 
>   James, if someone is a "fine neo-soul singer", how can they be
> untalented?

I was sarcastically quoting what everybody else says (in retrospect) when 
they defend Culture Club. I think I vaguely remember Dave Marsh writing 
something like that when they were around (something like "forget how Boy 
George looks and concentrate on his voice"). Myself, when it comes to Culture 
Club, "my name is Wes and I ain't in this mess." For me to call Boy George a 
fine neo-soul singer from the bottom of my OWN heart would be GENEROUS, 
believe me!! Maybe I shoulda said "SUPPOSEDLY a fine singer" or "HIS FANS SAY 
HE IS a fine singer."

And as far as the tossed-off "no-talent" comment of mine...don't take it 
literally. Remember, I was writing about a genre of music I normally despise, 
so it was my poetic license to talk shit.

James 

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