tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post116717047256194390..comments2024-03-29T05:14:33.223-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: DreamgirlsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-1168093890412415362007-01-06T06:31:00.000-08:002007-01-06T06:31:00.000-08:00I'm not going to see this movie no matter what you...I'm not going to see this movie no matter what your review is. Why? 'Cause I'm a <I>guy</I>. ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-1167187420589265812006-12-26T18:43:00.000-08:002006-12-26T18:43:00.000-08:00In one list of the 10 most popular Christmas stand...In one list of the 10 most popular Christmas standards, five were written and two co-written by Jewish composers.<BR/><BR/>http://www.vdare.com/sailer/051211_christmasIII.htmSteve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-1167178598154221472006-12-26T16:16:00.000-08:002006-12-26T16:16:00.000-08:00Your analysis of this being an era of female singe...Your analysis of this being an era of female singers but not of songwriters is very correct. We have fine singers of both sexes, but songwriting of the calibre of Berlin, the Gershwins, Porter, Loesser, Kern, Arlen, Styne and above all Johnny Mercer is dead. No one in any genre of popular music in the English language is writing great songs, and precious few are even writing tolerable ones. <BR/><BR/> That's because songwriting is like surgery or combat flying: it's done very well by people who do it all the time, and it's a total immersion business. Those people weren't higher in IQ necessarily than people writing songs today, but no one sits at a piano and writes all the time anymore. <BR/><BR/> Sidebar: what do all the above people save Mercer and Porter, and most all the other names from the Great American Songbook except Carmichael and Jimmy Van Heusen, have in common? Make of that what you will, but it's statistically unavoidable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com