Where Aged Rockers Go

Okay. So I haven't blogged in a while. A long while. But I've been busy. Anyway, this isn't about me, it's about those aged rockers who mellow out and become "CROSSOVER" artists.

What does that really mean? Does the genre bend, or do the artists?

Here I am, watching a little CMT, and here is a "World Premier Video" by a "Crossover Artist" who happens to be marrying Lance Armstrong--- no other than Sheryl Crow. I frankly, am appalled. It's hard enough to define country and rock and rockabilly, and now parent-company VH1 decides to move Sheryl Crow from MTV to VH1 to CMT.

I think perhaps age has to do with it. If you're "rocking" and marrying pop-icons, and you break the 42 year-old glass ceiling, then you will automatically be moved from MTV and/or VH1 to CMT. Because if you age, then you mellow, and if you mellow, then you are country.

Don't deny it. Soon even Mick Jagger will be defined as country. and then Al Gore can be defined as a conversationalist.