The Beatles are "just as bland as Bieber"

That's the claim of pop music blogger Joel Friedmark, who says the "grumpy generation" is putting modern pop down for insipid songs and lyrics, where their own "classic" music is just as dumb.

It's the latest iteration of one generation's music versus another's, of course, and fails to dig deeply when it comes to things such as melodic content, musical growth over an act's career and an artist's lasting cultural impact and influence.

But I did get a kick out of the lyrical comparison's Friedmark makes:


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