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I hate it, too, find it embarrassingly maudlin, and am willing to extend the overrated label to Leonard Cohen. I like most every successor artist he’s influence
by jonstewart 2y ago
I hate it, too, find it embarrassingly maudlin, and am willing to extend the overrated label to Leonard Cohen. I like most every successor artist he’s influenced, but just because he was among the first black humored singer-songwriters doesn’t make him the most talented.
- klibertp 2y ago> singer-songwriters doesn’t make him the most talented. He's a poet. And a writer. He never claimed to be a singer, and songwriting always was a side job that earned money. If you want to know how talented Cohen was, read instead of trying to listen.
- wisemang 2y agoHe was born like that. He had no choice. He was born with the gift of a golden voice. (Reference to his Tower of Song — and I can hear the wink as he calls his voice golden.)