So, ok, you don't care for Patsy Cline, and that's fine, honestly.
Apparently, millions of others do, of all ages.
Like that saying: "To each his own" right?
Exactly, and I'm with Tubelab - I'd heard the name but never heard the music. Not to my taste either. Idle curiosity, I asked the younger end (<45 years!) of the family, a couple knew the name, most had never heard of her. No surprise, I think.
Again doesn't surprise me. Just means that it never connected with that person. Really it's impossible not to put some filters on as we wade through the world. Way too much music, entertainment, advertising being pushed to consume it all. Myself I constantly seek out new music and yet my wife makes fun of me for my complete ignorance of current pop. It just doesn't connect with me. In your case it sounds like you will remain largely ignorant of the art, story and history of rap music. A genre of american music that has worldwide reach and influence. That's fine of course it just doesn't connect with you.
@wiseoldtech,
I don't get you. You have asked opinions and you're getting plenty. Why are you arguing them?! - you are not presenting any facts...world-wide-fame/-legend/-fan-base and what not...South America, Africa, Asia, continental Europe; peeeeerhaps, but I don't think so.
Instead of wondering why somebody has no clue about Patsy Cline (who has passed away decades prior to the man, you are reffering to, was born), you should better get scared with how many people in your country don't know who the current US-president is...or the northern neighbour of the US...or basics of the constitution and the amendments...and so on, and so fort. Not that my country is any different in such matters, sadly.
And yes, I know the name and the song 'Crazy', which I think of as being amongst the ones that are so good, nobody can screw up...like pizza and sex, so to speak.
With best regards from central Europe...a country with one of the slavic languages as official...and not yet born in miss Cline's time.
I don't get you. You have asked opinions and you're getting plenty. Why are you arguing them?! - you are not presenting any facts...world-wide-fame/-legend/-fan-base and what not...South America, Africa, Asia, continental Europe; peeeeerhaps, but I don't think so.
Instead of wondering why somebody has no clue about Patsy Cline (who has passed away decades prior to the man, you are reffering to, was born), you should better get scared with how many people in your country don't know who the current US-president is...or the northern neighbour of the US...or basics of the constitution and the amendments...and so on, and so fort. Not that my country is any different in such matters, sadly.
And yes, I know the name and the song 'Crazy', which I think of as being amongst the ones that are so good, nobody can screw up...like pizza and sex, so to speak.
With best regards from central Europe...a country with one of the slavic languages as official...and not yet born in miss Cline's time.
Another point I'd like to make is - Cline, being so legendary, her music being in every bar-room jukebox, etc., she had to have been heard by the masses everywhere over the decades.
I just can't wrap my head around the fact that the person I spoke with was devoid of ever hearing about her, regardless of their taste in music.
You would think..... after 30+ years of breathing the air, that sometime, somewhere there was a chance to have heard her music.
I think you overestimate her fame and universal impact. No disrespect to Patsy Cline but I can't think of the last time I have heard her music on the radio or as I am out and about.
Not outside North America. There is a world outside the USA you know.
Well, even 30 years ago, the only places playing her music were old country & western dives.
jeff
Hearing it, recognizing it, and knowing who the singer is are three different things. I live in an area where country music is the dominant genre, so I have likely heard Patsy Cline. Recognizing that fact, likely not, since I have never knowingly played her music and it is a voice that I don't particularly care for.
Do you know who Justin Hayward is? I have played more of his music than any other singer and been to at least 20 of his concerts starting in 1973, but outside of a select group of people often called "Moodies" he is relatively unknown.
Really the music that the OP mentions is boring and monotonous to me, if it can be considered music, there are people who live locked in their shell, and believe that the world ends at the borders of their country
Wrong, sorry.
I've been to a lot of different bars, clubs over the decades, and in several states.
Plus I've DJ'd at several years ago.
There always seemed to have a Patsy song or a few in their jukeboxes.
And meeting with, and speaking to Patsy's daughter Julie, and Patsy's husband Charlie, back in 2005 in Winchester Va, they confirmed that a massive ongoing fan base is still alive and well.
Now go ahead and call them liars.
This negativity about her is starting to tick me off.
It goes beyond the "I don't like her" crap.
You called for honest opinions. You got them. You do not like them. So what?
To be clear, Patsy Cline is considered one of the the most noteworthy singers of her time. She may not be yer cup of tea but to each his/her own.
History shows she's worthy of respect and acclaim. That she's not getting it here is meaningless. The politics of this little clique here is by no means influential in her's or anyone's stature in the world at large.
To those adamant she's a nobody anywhere but America, I suggest you do your homework before making stupid assumptions disguised as intelligent.
History shows she's worthy of respect and acclaim. That she's not getting it here is meaningless. The politics of this little clique here is by no means influential in her's or anyone's stature in the world at large.
To those adamant she's a nobody anywhere but America, I suggest you do your homework before making stupid assumptions disguised as intelligent.
Ray Bradbury chillingly predicted and described a World where "everybody was alone", even if in near contact with others, thanks to immersion in a sea of Music and words thanks to earphones:
" Mildred wears two of them; none of that painful reality stuff for her.
| The little mosquito-delicate dancing hum in the air, the electrical murmur of a hidden wasp snug in its special pink warm nest. The music was almost loud enough so he could follow the tune. Without turning on the light he imagined how this room would look. His wife stretched on the bed, uncovered and cold, like a body displayed on the lid of the tomb, her eyes fixed in the ceiling by invisible threads of steel, immovable. And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind. The room was indeed empty. Every night the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound, floating her, wide-eyed, toward morning. There had been no night in the last two years that Mildred had not swum that sea, had not gladly gone down in it for the third time. |
| From Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. Published by Doubleday in 1953" |
They burnt books too.
Not really needed anyway, WHO reads books today?
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So you are actually chastising us for not knowing sh*t about a person and Family only YOU know????
Tsk tsk, some people feel the Center of the World sometimes 😉
Fully justified, but then millions of South Americans would be deeply offended if somebody thought Tupac Amaru was a black Rapper.
Funny thing is, HIS Mother knew better, that´s why she gave him that name.
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Poking "Patsy Cline" into YouTube's search box brings up several videos with millions of views, so obviously some people still like her music somewhere.