Posted 8:57 AM by Gene

LEGENDARY, according to CURLEY'S (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) STOOGES:

Whitney Houston recorded the soundtrack for "The Bodyguard" inside one of [The Hit Factory's] studios in 1983, and watched it sell more than 17 million copies.

I suppose names like "Bruce Springsteen, Donald Fagen, Michael Jackson, Tony Bennett, Toni Braxton, Madonna, U2, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Jay-Z, [and] Beyonce" will qualify in a NEWS HACK's MIND as LEGENDARY, but to me they sound like the same old same old, producing the same old same old same old ghee-tar whanging and caterwauling that now pours uncontrollably out of a hundred thousand radio stations and five million stores, the same old same old same old same old. But this is, after all, music recorded in a FACTORY. (Tony counts too because he's a safely neutered RELIC.)

The Hit Factory, which will continue to operate its recording facility in Miami, acknowledged in a statement announcing its decision that there was "a burgeoning shift in the music industry away from large-scale recording facilities."

TRANSLATION: Any Johnny-One-Note can modify his voice into suitable tonelessness with a home studio. Besides, when was the last time more than six people gathered to record anything? "We Are the World"?