Rick Beato goes off on NBC writer about his piece on Paul Simon

Wow.

What an incredibly cynical and insensitive way to write a non-story. No one is as up their own arse as music critics/historians.

Culturally and commercially, every act of the 20th century is already in the trash bin. You think "kids these days" are listening to Elvis or the Beatles or Michael Jackson?

From 1900-2000 we created about 20 genres of music, relevant at some point or another, and in the last 20 years, we've thrown it all away. The only culturally relevant music genre right now is hip hop - and the least sophisticated, least inspiring, least lyrical hip hop imaginable at that. Commercial music as a cultural touchstone is dead for the foreseeable future. And if that's the case, will literally any musician from the 20th century when the art form was at this hypothetical apex even be remembered?

When rock and roll is referenced in history books 200 years from now, the Beatles will be pictured.

Clearly, some commenters didn't listen to Rick's Rant.

One of his main points was that nobody has a clue who will be judged relevant musically in 200 years, and certainly not a guy who doesn't seem to recognize how musically significant Joni Mitchell has been. The major support he used for this was JS Bach, who, 75 years after his death had been forgotten. Then Felix Mendelssohn came along and started reviving Bach's work and eventually his musical influence and significance became very widely known and celebrated.