The song “Touch My Body” is an ok song, it ain’t bad, but does it really deserve to beat down Elvis in Billboard? Hell no. This is just proof that people out there have bad taste in music. All people care about recently is “hit radio singles”.
Not with me. I’m not a “hit radio single” type of listener. If you are, then you probably ain’t my type of crowd that I would be hanging out with. No wonder this world can’t get another rock revolution ’cause the world is obsessed with pop music. Rock bands like Korn, Tool, Nickelback, The Velvet Revolver, etc. tried to take over the world for a little bit but failed because this nation is obsessed with pop music.
I never obsess with radio hit singles, I’m not that type of listener, never have and never will be. When I listen to music on CD, I don’t just listen to popular songs that you hear on the radio 50 times a day, I listen to a CD like I’m listening to a whole album. I do love “songs” that are not played on the radio. I listen to a whole album as if I’m listening to one entire song if you know what I mean.
*sigh*
I miss the old days in the 60’s and 70’s, early 90’s when Grunge rock took over, when people weren’t obsessed with radio singles where people would listen to an entire album from start to finish. It ain’t like that anymore. This is why rock music would never get another revolution.
Kev
K'Brocking 
another pathetic hater, just b/c she beat elvis sure as hell doesn’t make her better, I’m a hardcare Mariah fan and know that his music was revolutionary, she’s ALWAYS been a hitmaker, be it power ballads or ‘hit radio’ club bangers, she deserves all the success she gets, after all, it’s the public that ALWAYS gets to decide what they want to listen to, find another radio station to listen to…fuckn’ loser!
another pathetic hater, just b/c she beat elvis sure as hell doesn’t make her better, I’m a hardcare Mariah fan and know that his music was revolutionary, she’s ALWAYS been a hitmaker, be it power ballads or ‘hit radio’ club bangers, she deserves all the success she gets, after all, it’s the public that ALWAYS gets to decide what they want to listen to, find another radio station to listen to…fuckn’ loser!
Mariah got to where she is by blowing the head of the record company.
But the truth about the music biz is that it had always been driven by singles. Before the Beatles were recording albums like Rubber Soul and Revolver, or the Beach Boys with Pet Sounds, “long players” or LPs were basically budget collections of singles. No one really thought of albums as conceptually collective statements before the mid 60s. By the 70s and the advent of FM radio, the rock world moved to album oriented, but most other popular genres like country, soul, R&B, pop and disco were still based on the 45, and in the 80s, the 12 inch single. Now we have the iTunes store and rock is back to single oriented, because let’s face it, even a favorite band like Led Zeppelin would make albums with maybe three good songs on it, and the rest was filler crap.
Mariah got to where she is by blowing the head of the record company.
But the truth about the music biz is that it had always been driven by singles. Before the Beatles were recording albums like Rubber Soul and Revolver, or the Beach Boys with Pet Sounds, “long players” or LPs were basically budget collections of singles. No one really thought of albums as conceptually collective statements before the mid 60s. By the 70s and the advent of FM radio, the rock world moved to album oriented, but most other popular genres like country, soul, R&B, pop and disco were still based on the 45, and in the 80s, the 12 inch single. Now we have the iTunes store and rock is back to single oriented, because let’s face it, even a favorite band like Led Zeppelin would make albums with maybe three good songs on it, and the rest was filler crap.