Why do many people cannot stand sweet & easy music?

[eclectiktronik]

Surely won't it be him simply banging about how much he likes Burt Bacharach, as if that's a revelation?

I'm sure he does, but that makes him the same as 90% of the population who like tracks such as 'close to you', 'say a little prayer', etc. I used to suffer exposure to Oasis due to a close friend being a fan, and I hear no Bacharach whatsoever in his music. Actions speak louder than words as far as I'm concerned!

[babycart]

Upon learning from Bacharach and David the label didn't think her style was correct for their new song, and that Jerry Butler was selected for recording it, a keenly disappointed Warwick felt used, manipulated and exploited, and dismissed the team's assurance of writing her an equally viable song in her own style. According to a Biography cable television episode on Burt Bacharach, Warwick responded by shouting, in nearly in crying rant, at the songwriters as she left the recording studio: "Don't make me over, man . . . (you have to) accept me for what I am". Bacharach and David looked at each other in the moment, in stunned disbelief, at her youthful outburst at them. David said to Bacharach: "Burt, I think we just heard the title of a new song".

This illustrates why Noel never matched his EZ idol. He would never have considered a song called "F*** Right Off Noel You *F***** Fat C****, and You Can Stick It Up Your ***** Too Bonehead"

[Filthy Rich]

"Anyway, as you were. I have a thing about oversimplification of 'library' but that's a diversion from the topic at hand..."

Well library as a genre doesn't really make much sense (I heard one person asking if it's very quiet records) but by definition it is functional music so it's quite a useful term in this debate I think. Although I guess something non-functional (ie artistic) can happen in between the person being commissioned to make functional music and his or her actual making of that music.