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there are plenty who style themselves as musicians, but are actually performers, and can't even do that well. Look at all the lipsynching going on in concerts and special events these days.
That, and it's difficult for me as a musician to place pop performers who sing songs with repetitive choruses and chord progressions (ex: Madonna's "Ray of Light" is I-IV-I-IV-I-IV almost the whole way through) with, say, an orchestral soloist who memorizes and performs flawlessly hundreds or thousands of notes in a single piece. One could say I gfind a line dividing musicians from performers.
Not that there's anything wrong with this, but it seems to me that the vast majority of our pop performers these days could be one hell of a lot more well-rounded, musically speaking. IMO, they should all be at least capable of writing their own songs.
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