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(Above: Me in 2017.) The above song is now registered with the Songwriters Association of Canada as my song which I (re)wrote in 2016. Do you radio fans recall when it was last on the radio? That was after I rewrote Fool's Paradise in 2014 and the radio wanted to give Nickelback a second chance at fraud success with my music. And has Nickelback been on the radio again recently with any good songs that they don't know how to write? If this stupid industry had invested in me with my music, they could have kept their profits from 2007 all the way to the present for my music. But instead, how much money have they lost on songs like Fools' Paradise and Nonchalant since I rewrote them? And whose fault is it? I certainly didn't want them to give my intelligent sounding songs to a boneheaded band like Nickelback. Can we lock them up and throw away the key now? About tycoons, well, I always just kind of liked that word. It has a musical ring. I think my lyrics in that song are pretty neutral, though. It still ends up flattering tycoons because I'm an artist and I beautify whatever I touch with my talent. Just goes to show you how God's gifts benefit everyone, even my enemies. Have you ever thought about what kind of a person would desire such immense wealth? I gather that it would be a person who wants everything, a person who can't be happy unless he has everything. Does that sound reasonable? And so they rack up their fortune and use it to buy everything and discover that there are still a few things that their money can't buy: artistic talent, perhaps, or poetic wit, perhaps, or academic smarts... Do you follow me? And then they would desire to use their money to cut down others who possess these things that they can't have. Maybe that's why artists like me have such a miserable life in our capitalist consumer culture, at the hands of tycoons like Jimmy Pattison. |
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Saturday, February 9, 2019
Priceless Theory
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