anyone get sad over a celebrity death at all?

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I know why you would say that given my general religious talk around here and you would probably not affiliate a conservative with rap music (although I never really took my religion all that seriously until late 2012 basically as I was pretty much like many others prior to that point to where I was largely 'Catholic' in name only as I did not pray and rarely went to Mass etc. so basically... I had a basic belief in God but that was about as far as it went (which is not cutting it, but prior to my accident I just did not really 'get it' and did not get the importance of prayer etc). but a accident brought me back into the Catholic church and I began to take it a bit more seriously now ).

but I used to listen to nothing but gangster rap from about 1992-1993 through about 2004 as no other music did anything for me at that time til my mid-20's I finally started liking other music which before that happened I never thought I would likely anything else besides rap. basically from my teens through mid-20's it was nothing but gangster rap. like Snoop Dogg/Bone Thugs-n-Harmony and especially Master P's record company No-Limit Records which I think peaked in 1998 etc.

basically I started on 'Dr. Dre - The Chronic (1992)' with the 'Dre Day' song which I remember first noticing on MTV etc which is basically the first song that got me into music in general and then 'Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle (1993)' with the 'What's my name' song which I still have the original recording on tape that I taped off the radio on Oct 22nd 1993. I was 14 years old at that time. I obviously don't use that tape given I got the CD etc back-in-the-day but I keep it purely for nostalgia sake.

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Yeah, like I would assume a lot of the stuff I like now, my teenage to early 20's self would be surprised I like. but then again, like I was saying, my teenage-to-early 20's self liked nothing but gangster rap as no other music did anything for me emotionally back in those days and music in general is all about ones emotional response to it.

but nowadays... I don't really listen to rap anymore as when I do once in a while it's almost always something from the 1990's and partially for nostalgia sake.



That's what you seriously think?

Hell, no. that kind of crap is for teenage females (or thereabouts) basically. I am surprised you don't know this as a typical male is not going to like that kind of music as I think it really goes without saying as it's the type a typical male made fun of, especially back-in-the-day around the time it was new.

Hip-hop and R&B are completely different genres, so I don't see how talking replaced singing. We've had plenty of great singers and R&B artists since the dawn of hip-hop. As for hip-hop dying out, rock lasted a good 60 years before its decline. Rap has only been around 40. It may still have some steam left. Not that I'm not excited about the next thing anyway; right now it seems trap and other forms of electronic music are dominating both rap and pop. I find it sad that the use of real instruments seems to be dying out. 

The first celebrity death I can remember making me sad was

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Gene Siskel

because I watched the show every week and his illness was not hidden from the show so one could see him back form surgery and obviously having some difficulties and then later Ebert announced his death so it was one of the most personal celebrity deaths.

And
more recently,

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when the first guy who played Godzilla died.
I was surprised to actually find myself shedding tears.
Oh damn it's happening again.
I think it must be a case of "the child is the father of the man"
since Godzilla was such a big part of childhood that it triggers an involuntary psychological emotion hearkening back to adolescence.

I think as one gets older, the loss of things or familiar faces even in media will resonate--the changing of the seasons...but something that goes all the way back to childhood would impact the most at least subconsciously.

Most major pop stars consistently work with the best songwriters and producers in the world. So the best songwriters/producers "suck. period?" I think not. The reason most dislike them have nothing to do with the music and everything to do with silly ideologies, like a desire to be cool. 

Backstreet Boys had some damn good songs, especially the ones written by Max Martin. I Want It That Way is about as good as pop music gets. Spice Girls were fun. I remember liking them when I was like 12 but, tbh, I don't remember anything they did besides Wannabe. 

I was sad when Princess Diana died.

We know people who had memorial services, dressed in black, crying, like a family member died. That one in particular puzzled me since I'm American. Apparently there are still Tories among us.

I remember my dad's younger brother went into his room for days on end, playing Beatles records when John Lennon was murdered. I was just a kid and this is when I learned about The Beatles.