i'm torn between stupid and pretentious
I suck at singing... so to anyone listening to me sing his songs, his songs would suck as well.
When you want to play well known songs you can go to a music shop and buy famous albums in sheet music form so he seems to be just cutting out issuing the performance.,
The guy has done, what, 9 or 10 albums? He's been on the mountaintop, he's tried many different things...so what's it to the rest of us if he writes a few songs and chooses not to record them for mass consumption? If his only objective was to make money, I think it's clear that he would go about many things differently, but it's apparently only about him doing whatever the hell he wants. He doesn't have to make these new songs available in any form, really, but he's choosing to do so. I'll be interested to see if performances of this music pops up on YouTube, perhaps even from a known artist or two.
He is suck a quirky fella that it does not surprise me...and I am certain there will be performances. He is pretty brilliant really. Why not do this?
I don't really give a rat's ass how complex, interesting, or well-written a song is. Some of the most kick-ass rock ever written just bangs out the same ol' three chords over and over. (Def Leppard, anyone?) If I can't turn on my radio and hear it... yawn.
There are scads of songs that were written by someone other than the performer that made them famous. If all these songs are going to have to be performed by another artist anyway, what makes this music any different than the music any other behind-the-scenes songwriter puts out?
I like jig-saw jazz and the get fresh flow, I dont mind if it's just sheet music.