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Even if that means including Missy Elliott, for example, who had like one hit 30 years ago.

And even some of the iconic musicians they list are all a lot more left wing than they were in their primes.

No young person looks up to Bruce Springsteen anymore for this exact reason.

He's best known today as a dumb, whiny leftist who reads the talking points from the DNC.

What we've learned is that rock musicians, unfortunately, get lamer and gayer as they age.

We can only conclude that if Kurt Cobain were alive today, sad as it is to say, he'd be making PSAs about climate change and defending democracy against fascist Republicans.

That's why you need the younger crop to come in and keep things lively and rebellious as these old guys lose their edge and start demanding COVID tests at their concerts.

But we don't have a younger crop anymore.

And until that changes, one of the greatest cultural exports in America's history, rock music, is never going to return.

And no matter your taste in music, that would be a tragedy.

You know, Don McLean sang about the day the music died over 50 years ago.

It was a nine-minute folk rock song that shot to the top of the charts, something that could never happen today.

And in that classic song, the day the music died referred, of course, to the plane crash that killed some of rock's biggest stars more than a decade before that.

But he might just as well, and even more so, have been singing about our day and age.

Except it wasn't any plane crash that killed rock music in the end.

It died instead by a million cuts.

And that's a harder obituary to put into song.

And even if you could put it in a song, would there be anyone left to sing it?

That'll do it for the show today and this week.

Have a great weekend.