I agree Bex. I must sound like a little old lady to the youths of today, but I feel the same way about the female pop stars and celebrities. My eyes were opened to all this sexualisation when I started going to the gym and they had MTV on in front of the treadmills. Most of the videos were just soft porn and it's got worse since then. I don't want to see my 5-year-old girl growing up with that kind of pressure on her. The problem is that as time goes on, people keep pushing the envelope of what's acceptable. This happens with violent films and video games too. I don't know where it will stop or what will make it stop.

I was liking Amy Winehouse for a while until she fell apart. That said, I don't find her outfits or gyrations particularly appealing. There are up-and-coming singers like Adele. Good heavens, a female singer who wants to get by on her talent and not how well she can imitate a porn star.

Until recently I, too, was saying there hadn't been anything good on the radio for over 20 years. Maybe that's changing though. Some very old musical styles are coming back. Blues, jazz and scat seem to be getting popular again. Tom Waits could teach them a bit about that LOL. He's a bit like Picasso. Picasso could draw like Michelangelo when he was 10 but he chose to do other things with his talents. Tom Waits could blues and booze it up with the best of the jazzy nightclub singers -- he really could sing -- but instead he decided to cultivate his talents in other ways. In my opinion he is unparalleled in creativity and innovation.

Still, 80s . . . maybe someone will post something here that pleasantly surprises me -- that I like. I've watched a little of Weird Al Yankovic's older stuff lately. I've always liked him. There was a clip from an 80s movie he made full of parodies of songs like "Money for Nothing." The video was big back then. It was one of those "Oh my god --- um, I'm not sure this deserves to be memorable" kinds of moments. They used to play that "Money for Nothing" video so often I got sick of it. Couldn't hold a candle to a song like "Sultans of Swing" anyway.

Would you believe I used to be mad about Duran Duran? God, noooo! Every time I think of it my insides cringe.