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Originally Posted by albionmoonlight
I think that that's a lot of it with him. You don't get the sense that he really beleives anything that he is singing.
That would not be so bad (nothing wrong with singing something that you don't feel), except for the fact that he pretendsto be all deep and into his music. Getting up there and singing "Who shot the Na Na" is fine when you are not pretending that you are doing anything other than making fun music. Singing something heartfelt and feeling it is fine, too. But pretending to be deeper than you are when you are just faking it comes off as . . . fake.
The best example (there are many) is that song "Downeaster Alexis" (or something like that) where he gives a psuedo-soul tribute mourning the loss of his life at sea.
And--part and parcel with this whole thing is his image of himself as a musical genius. Blech.
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Case in point is that until I read his eulogies last year, I thought Johnny Cash had done hard time for killing a man. Johnny Cash told stories that you wanted to believe.