Anybody Remember What Good Music Sounded Like?

You know, before Taylor Swift hit the radio on constant rotation asking "Why You Gotta be So Mean?" (Answer: Because you're Taylor Swift!) and nothing could break through the internet but novelty songs? When maturity was a virtue, and artists - actual artists -worked to make these newfangled drum machines and samplers breathe, pointing us towards a glorious future that, somehow, never seemed to arrive because (don't ask me how) Kanye West sucked all the air out of it, leaving us with this stale exhalation of an industry that can't find or promote decent new acts to, literally, save it's life?

Anybody remember that? 

Anybody? 

 Well, I certainly do,....

(P.S.: Check out Tracy Thorn's hands - WOW - Ann Coulter is NOT alone,...)