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Elton John Wants To 'Tear Down' The Internet

Singer launches hard-line attack...

  • by Scott Colothan
  • Thursday, August 02, 2007
  • Photo by: Shirlaine Forrest
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Elton John Wants To 'Tear Down' The Internet
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Elton John has launched a scathing attack on the Internet, saying it is preventing people from interacting properly in the real world.

The aging singer believes, in his own clichéd words, that people should get back on the streets and quit blogging.

He ranted: “The internet has stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff. Instead they sit at home and make their own records, which is sometimes OK but it doesn’t bode well for long-term artistic vision. It’s just a means to an end.

“We’re talking about things that are going to change the world and change the way people listen to music and that’s not going to happen with people blogging on the internet. I mean, get out there - communicate. Hopefully the next movement in music will tear down the internet.

“Let’s get out in the streets and march and protest instead of sitting at home and blogging. I do think it would be an incredible experiment to shut down the whole internet for five years and see what sort of art is produced over that span. There’s too much technology available. I’m sure, as far as music goes, it would be much more interesting than it is today.”

John finished to The Sun: “I don’t have a mobile phone or an iPod or anything. I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano. In the early Seventies there were at least ten albums released every week that were fantastic. Now you’re lucky to find ten albums a year of that quality. And there are more albums released each week now than there were then.”
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  • And what drugs was Mr Dwight on during the early seventies? ”At least 10 fantastic albums a week” - they must’ve been something else!

    ~ by Jack Basement 8/2/2007

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  • That’s funny coming from him - talking about creating music together instead of on the net. Bernie Taupin writes the words and sends them to Elton, who then composes the music to go with the words. In the old days Bernie would send the words and Elton would get together with the band with the idea of a melody and the song would be created together with all the musicians. He didn’t write all the different instrumental pieces -that came from the creativity of the individual musicians!!

    ~ by Sue Denim 8/8/2007

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