"I looked up Love Me Tender because I didn't know it too well" - David A.

"This week is rock and roll hall of fame week and their are a FEW songs on the list that i knew" - Jason

"Bob Dylan KINDA started the whole folk rock thing back in the day. So I'm excited to sing a good classic folk rock song" -Jason


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COME ON!! how do you not know your classic old school songs!!!! I mean not knowing one of Elvis' all time classics?? yea yea yea, he's 17 but come on turn off the radio and put down the Natasha Bedingfield CDs and actually turn on some real music and school yourself in the greats of music past!!

Same with Jason! you knew a FEW?? that is sad man just sad!! no, Dylan didn't kinda start it...he DID start it!! and yes he is classic and so is "Mr. Tambourine Man" so if you are going to sing it then KNOW THE LYRICS! Same with Archie and his lyric forgetting on Work It Out by no other then THE BEATLES!!

If they are going to make music their career then I SERIOUSLY suggest they do some research. Learn to understand and APPRECIATE music greats and what they brought to the music world!!


AHHHH!!!

ok i'm done! lol

Blahaha, Natasha Bedingfield.. why would I not be surprised if that was true,
Ah, I know these children are killing me..

although I am a year younger than David Archuleta.
Anyways! Good point!

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I so agree! I mean wtf, the list was full of songs that everyone knew. I wonder which few Jason had been heard. Those two and Proud Mary maybe? And Archie.. it doesn't even make any sense. Is he trying to say that he didn't have a clue and that his father chose the song?

This is one reason they don't deserve to win, in my opinion at least.

It's also remind me, when they had to choose a Beatles song and KLC said that she never heard a Beatles song before!! I almost threw something on my TV cause I was so mad at her.

Archie is just boring! plain and simple. His songs put me to sleep.

They seriously do need to take some music history. That's pathetic.

Well good I'm glad I'm not the only one! lol

I am surprised my post got any responses considering I didn't have anything about how sexy DC is or anything lol

Ohhhh your right about KLC, i forgot about that! GRRRRRRR!! lol

MUSIC LEARN AND LIVE IT!

Haha, this cracks me up, I love it. So sadly true. Oh Elvis, what is the world coming to?!

yeah that pissed me off too but then i realized well its a 12 year old boy who didnt know ANY BEATLES SONGS!! ok that's pretty sad in my opinion.

I agree, it's tragic how little people know about the greats of rock *goes drama queen* Most people wouldn't know a brilliant Pink Floyd song it it hit them in the nose and gave them a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The only Queen songs they could name you are We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions...MAYBE Bohemian Rhapsody.

We live in sad times, my friends, sad times indeed.

I agree. I hate Love me tender, because the music teacher in my school used to torture kids with that song. But how can you not know that song?

I am with Jason - I only knew some of the songs.

Aww, well, it's not their fault they like to listen to more current music. XD

Haii, and I agree sempereadem.

It's sad really.

I gotta cut them some slack, because when I was that age-ish, my knowledge of rock history didn't stretch (with any depth, anyhow) back much further than music that was created during my lifetime. And to pontificate on the whole dinosaurification of rock music--the music that is considered "classic rock" is essentially the same today as it was 20 years ago. The distance between Archuleta and Love me Tender (a song released 35 years before he was born) is akin to the distance between me and Cab Calloway, and I'm sure no one would have faulted me at the age of 17 for never having heard of him except by way of the Blues Brothers!


And if you're going to slam people for their lack of familiarity with rock history, you damn well better get it right. I think this is a wildly inaccurate statement. There were a lot of other groups and singers doing things in a very similar vein to Dylan in both his incarnations. If you go with the "folk folk" period, he was doing things very similar to folk folks like Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Peter Paul and Mary, Phil Ochs. Dylan was an important part of that scene, but he didn't invent it. If you want to look at who put the "rock" into folk rock, the Byrds clearly beat Dylan to that punch as well, as precisely evidenced by their releasing an electric version of Mr. Tambourine Man in exactly the same timeframe as Dylan's own acoustic version.