I've always wanted to keep it more on the moment than on the craft of it. Maybe we've exhausted the soul of music. It's taken some hits over the years, with some bad, bad songs. I think it's a mirror to what's going on in people's minds. Ultimately, songs should be entertaining, but if you're going to be entertaining, you can't be manipulative.
Entertainment can be trivial.
Not if there's real joy behind it. I don't think Little Richard is trivial. But the Backstreet Boys and all that stuff, it's manipulative crap. There's nothing real about it. I would think that the public would be insulted by that, but they're not.