I don't get the Barbara Madrell comparrison. She was a marginal artist from one era. There is no comparrison to Bruce Springsteen. There was also Buck Owens, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, George Jones, a lot of people that have lasted pretty well. They are from different genres and different eras than now. You seem to have some problem undrestanding that I am talking about different eras of time. And about different songs and artists.But that is really not the point. The point is perfect rhymes, changes in the language and current styles, not thirty years ago.

Why don't you bring in a song called "Love me Do, or "I wanna hold your hand" now? That is what I am talking about. The language changes as well as the acceptance of the language by the record buying public.

Again, all this started about perfect rhymes. You can reject or not. You and I don't agree and never will, so I am really not that much talking to you. I am addressing the topic of this original thread which is "Why is Taxi telling him he has predictable or obvious rhymes?" That is the point.

My information comes not so much from me, but from personal people I know who are current hit writers, artists, producers, record company people, publishers, ASCAP, BMI,SESAC,SOCAN,NSAI. Their comments are echoed from interviews, articles, and contacts with people from LA, New York, Australia, England and other points in between, from different genres of music and different points of view. It is an ongoing discussion that goes on every day in the music business.

That is what I am passing on.

MAB