AKA: Mia is VERY, very OPINIONATED!

I had, upon see­ing that this sub­ject had appeared to have gone away qui­etly, decided not to post this. BUT! (See below)

Yes, so. Well. This should hardly be worth men­tion­ing, but since it is being men­tioned it “deserves” my mention.

(This new theme is not very nice to my smi­leys!! I’ll work on that.)

Here it is:

1.)  Some­body at ‘THE DAILY’ is an IDIOT.  (See their quote below.)

JAZZ FEST SHOWS MAYER WHO’S BOSS
John Mayer’s loss is Bruce Spring­steen’s gain. Mayer was just bumped from the cov­eted clos­ing slot at the New Orleans Jazz Fest on April 29 and replaced with The Boss. And sources say Mayer isn’t happy about it. The “Your Body is a Won­der­land” hit­maker used to over­share on Twit­ter, but he main­tained his silence about the snub yes­ter­day. Also play­ing are Tom Petty, Eddie Ved­der, the Foo Fight­ers and the Eagles. But Bruce will close the fest. “Any­thing else would be a dis­as­ter,” said one source. In 1974, Anne Mur­ray was “Broooced!” off the stage in Cen­tral Park when she fol­lowed Springsteen.

The writer of this blurb obvi­ously wanted to take a shot at John, but I think if you read it minus ‘I LOVE JOHN MAYER SO MUCH’ emo­tion it is more of an insult to Bruce.

Not only did the writer point out that Springsteen’s received sec­ond billing in the past, but the writer makes it sound like hav­ing Bruce fol­low John was some­thing to be CONSIDERED.

2.)  Some­body at the NEW ORLEANS’ JAZZ FEST knows how things are done and promptly adjusted the sched­ule when Bruce was added to the lineup.

 

Let us all rejoice that John was bumped by some­one who deserves it.

JOHN will TOTALLY have his turn.

JOHN is the GREATEST GUITAR PLAYER to EVER LIVE.

He is LEGEND.

He is also still so very young (as far as being leg­endary goes).

It’s about respect.

And, well,  Bruce Spring­steen…

 …he’s THE BOSS.

It’s like, for exam­ple, in the movie ‘LIMITLESS’

(which I liked, by the way) Robert De Niro got the ‘AND’ when they posted the act­ing credits.

Nobody in their right mind’s going to bill Robert De Niro directly under Bradly Cooper,

even though Cooper was CLEARLY both the draw and the star of the show.

It is the sole pur­pose the ‘AND’ credit in movies was invented!

 (oh, and to avoid cat/dog fights between cocky young celebri­ties regard­ing whose name should go on top).

Respect for legend.

Respect for talent.

 DISCLAIMER: The above com­par­i­son of con­cert billing  to the movie cred­it­ing process was writ­ten based on my non-existent knowl­edge of how either indus­try really works so take every word I just wrote with a cou­ple grains of salt, ‘kay?

 NOW.  That said.

Do NOT get me STARTED on how ROYALLY PEEVED it made me when I found out that Keith Urban was going on after John at Tiger Jam.

It still makes my blood pres­sure rise…

…and I like Keith just fine.

 

 

 PS: JOHN MAYER RULES ALL!

UPDATE: NOW I MUST SPEAK.

 Below is an excerpt from a nola.com arti­cle:

A del­i­cate bit of music indus­try diplo­macy ensued. Mayer’s book­ing agent, Scott Clay­ton, also rep­re­sents two other acts on the 2012 Jazz Fest sched­ule, My Morn­ing Jacket and Rodrigo y Gabriela. Davis reas­sured Clay­ton that even if Mayer per­formed ear­lier in the day, he could still play his full show. Per­haps more impor­tantly, he would not be moved to another stage and forced into the unen­vi­able posi­tion of play­ing oppo­site Springsteen.

Instead, Mayer would appear on Acura between Dr. John and the E Street Band, pre­sum­ably play­ing to a much larger crowd than he would have as headliner.

Mayer agreed to the new arrangement.

Del­i­cate? Agreed? Pfffft. John Mayer does not have even half of an ounce of the ego that would make a sit­u­a­tion like this one the slight­est bit touchy.

BUT. They (nolan.com) are, I con­cede, at least nicer in their treat­ment of John. If I worked in *cough* “THE BIZ,’ do you know what I would have said about this repositioning?

That is was occurring.

I would have let the fact that its occur­rence was not a reflec­tion upon John’s and/or Bruce’s tal­ent and/or fame be what it already is and was: OBVIOUS!

lol!!!!!  *She says with PASSION*