Too Much

I now remember the song I had online in 2008 when Bill Maher complained about a white musician who played the blues. It was Under My Umbrella. I guess he took that for a blues song because I added a few blues notes to the 'E' when I played it. He must have been happy to see Beyonce take illegal possession of it for her race. I said that this song was kind of boring to play on the guitar because it's just four chords strummed over and over from start to finish, but I now I hear that they're saying my new songs are too complicated. Business, for instance, is in 13/4 time and no one can figure it out unless they work really hard on it. But that ten-year-old girl really liked Business when I first shared it as Psych. She loved it. She didn't care about the difficult phrasing. She just appreciated the superior quality. Too complicated? Not for her, a child in Grade Five. Leave it to a bunch of dull, spoiled, lazy industry 'professionals' to criticize me for being too complicated instead of criticizing themselves for being too simplistic. Some of that music they're peddling is so empty that it probably retards the brain. But big business doesn't care about that. They just want you to be smart enough to drive your car and go to your job so you can give your paycheck back to them when you shop. When I posted my children's song Clouds in 2010, everyone liked Tina Fey's comment that maybe I should try doing Baby Love. At the time, the Crystalids were on the radio with my Arise, which is equal in sophistication to anything I'm doing now. Why wasn't it too complicated when they had it? And how did I go from being too slow to being too intelligent? I'll tell you how: by way of a broadcasting industry that lies through its teeth about me and by the failure of our justice system to permanently remove their offensive broadcasts from the airwaves.
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