Country: "Ring of Fire" - Johnny Cash (Columbia Records - 1963)
Rap: "Vomitspit" - MF Doom - MM..Food (Rhymesayers Entertainment - 2004)
On Tuesday, November 13, researchers were surprised at their discovery of local teen Tyler Kelly, age 15, who actively listens to all of the approximately 60,000 artists in the iTunes store who are not labeled as either Hip Hop/Rap or Country.
"I really never thought we'd find him," says Dr. James Byron, head of the Institute for Facebook Interests. "Early in 2008, we became aware that people were increasingly asserting their love for 'everything except rap and country' in the music section of their profiles." Upon investigation, Byron and his associates kept discovering that these claims were less than accurate. "We were beginning to believe that no human being could possibly like all music except Hip-Hop and Country; the utter amount of music that one would have to like to substantiate that claim is absurd."
"I never really thought much of it," states Kelly, simultaneously listening to 200 albums of various genres. "I always liked to absorb all music because I thought it was all fantastic, but when I heard Hip-Hop and Country, I knew that no artist from those genres had anything to offer." Kelly claims that these genres inherently attract musicians without the lyrical intellectualism of his favorite Pop artists and the indelible melodies of the classic No Wave artists.
Byron wonders if Kelly is representative of an emerging trend of listeners who simply won't stand for the outrageous intrinsic lack of any value in these two genres alone. "I think he [Kelly] is truly an artistic pioneer in his aggressive demands of the artist to not be Hip-Hop or Country."
Kelly concludes, "I'm only fifteen, but I know what real music is." When questioned of his experience with Hip-Hop and Country, Kelly admits that he has only heard a few songs on the radio.
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