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Originally posted by The Hierophant:
Does anyone know where the financial profits from his music go? Genuinely curious here.
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Probably through the same grinder through which all musical artist's profits are put through. They go to the artist and their 'machine'. I'm not sure how popular JMM is, but unless he's a superstar his 'machine' probably gets the lion's share, but if he puts $10 million in directly into his pocket from this song, what does it matter? Does anyone know where the profits from "
Back Up Dat Ass" went? [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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Come on folks this isn't about John Michael Montgomery and what a great guy he may or may not be, it is about the song he wrote and sings. It is a wonderful song, and it is wonderful whether you were for or against the war in Iraq, because it isn't a hip hip hooray song for that war or war in general, it is a song about soldiers and their families, and that song would just as easily apply to soldiers from WWII or WWI or any other conflict you choose to compare it to after the advent of mail service. For that matter it could apply to soldiers from either side of those conflicts.
When I hear a song I like, whether it is this one or one I may have first heard sung twenty years ago, I like it
because I like it and
not because of who wrote or sings it. I like almost everything Elton John has ever done, but it isn't because I like him personally because I don't even know him. I didn't like Candle In The Wind because I was in favor of Marilyn Monroe's death, and Elton didn't write that song because he had personal knowledge of her death. He used his gift to write a song that was touching because of what it said based on his non personal knowledge of her. What about Elton's love songs? Do they stop being romantic to heterosexuals when they learn he is gay? Does
Saturday's Alright For Fighting somehow stop being a macho ass-kicking song because of his sexual preference? Was he ever a
Rocket Man? Has the NY Times ever really said,
God Is Dead as Elton espouses in
Levon? Of course not because it isn't Elton John that matters, it is his music. I'm sure Yorick could provide better examples, but until he stops by, your stuck with those. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
When I served in the Army, it was not during a time of conflict, and I wasn't stationed abroad, but America is a big place, and I was far from home. I can tell you that I missed my home and realized what I had there. I can tell you that being away from my family then taught the 19 year old know-it-all that I was in those days how amazing my family was and I much I'd taken them for granted. I can tell you that while I was gone I learned a new respect and love for my parents that changed our relationship forever.
I also realized how important my friends were, and I am not too embarrassed to admit that the cheesy
That's What Friends Are For by Dion Warwick, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, and Gladys Knight choked me up then, and I still smile when I hear it today.
Most importantly, I can tell you that my life, in those days,
completely revolved around letters from home.
I
love that JMM song because it is about the men and women who serve and not the politics of the US Government's use of that service.
Listen to it. It is just as real as any love song you've ever heard, because it is one. It is a love song about the love of family, wife to husband and parent to child.
Everything doesn't have to be a big political argument.
[ 09-28-2004, 10:31 AM: Message edited by: Ronn_Bman ]