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Originally Posted by troutman
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Merit Captain? Does Miley Cyrus have merit?
Annie is considered one of the top guitar players by her peers. Her new album is near the top of the list of best reviewed albums of 2014. NPR pundits call her new live show amongst the best they have seen in a lifetime of concert going.
SNL should be about the avant garde sometimes, not just the popular.
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Miley Cyrus is performing dance pop music oriented at teenagers. I have long been out of that target demographics, unfortunately
. No, I don't like her act nor her music. But for those who like Bieber, Spears, Gomez etc., she offers a good deal, because she is performing very professionally. So, yes, she has merit and deserved her stripes from that standpoint, I suppose.
I do have an issue with people bringing "even worse" examples in a sense that "if THAT crap is allowed, then THIS crap is definitely OK". Why not compare to the better examples? SNL had some excellent music performances over the years.
Again, my earlier post was not about one's taste preferences, but about professional musicianship. You refer to her peers praising her as a best guitarist. I don't know who her peers are that think that, but I do have some really good rock-guitar benchmarks to measure against: Hendrix, Gilmour, May, Clapton, Knopfler, Page, Oldfield, Satriani etc. The songs played at SNL did not reveal any of her superior guitar skills, none; nor did any video-clips on YouTube. How do we know that she is a good guitar player, because someone said so?
As for the avant-garde and other genre music at SNL - yes, absolutely, bring it on. To me, Arcade Fire performance early in the year was a decent quality avant-garde played very professionally. St.Vincent's performance at SNL was not a professional quality music, let alone the genre; thus, it did not deserve to be there.