Any time one of the current artists today sing an older artist's song, they ruin it. That's nothing new.

The lack of respect or acknowledgement that the crowd showed Quincy Jones and Stevie Wonder was disgusting. They go nuts for Usher and barely clap for Stevie muthafuckin Wonder?!? WTF is that? Brian Seacrest (nice name) needs to be bitchsmacked as well if not for anything else, being uneducated in music.

Mary J. Blige and George Michael did a nice cover of "As" a few years ago, and they both sounded great.

But the last few times I've seen Mary sing live, all she does is scream like someone stepped on her toe. She needs to soften it up a bit.

Prince has been offkey a number of times.

So to just say Prince could have done the Stevie tribute?

Ah...no it happens to professionals in a live setting.
And yes even Prince falls victim to the off key debacle. Numerous times..

Slave2daGroove said:

Agreed. The younger crowd know nothing musically other than what MTV Networks/Clear Channel/Radio One throw at them. Unless their parents were schooling them on music, they are pretty much walking robots musically (anything older than them is terrible). For this reason, it makes me feel good when artist from when I was growing up get thier props. At least when I was growing up in the 70's, there was still real music that I could be exposed too unlike the children of today.