Starting with whether or not they're really and truly "open minded".
In Jazz's early days, after the customers had gone home, artists held "cutting sessions" to compete and play with some unorthodox ideas they liked.
Nobody else would've understood.
I'm saying the artists studiously avoided the so-called "music lovers" they knew were lacking interest in, or failed to grasp, creation in service to the ears and mind - and not their heart or feet.
Those people in need of a pulse to run daytime.
Denied the best.
That's never changed.
America's got a mighty river of ideas, but forced to flow underground, where the sun-worshiping, self-proclaimed naturists are too scared to venture or swim.
They'll overwhelm you they're all there is.
Their outlook rules the airwaves - always the same - a weak municipal tap, available on demand, easily adjusted for hot and cold, and totally unavailable if you don't pay your bill.
Their art's not a resource or a necessity - but still life and death.
That's their "show" - demanded and paid for BTW - and one more recording artist's explanation for the sorry state of American political life:
When you're listening to those guys, we'll always be all wet,...