Meaty

We have a Meat Loaf tribute act onsite tonight, which I have ended up having to stay on for, as a sort-of Supervising Manager. I'm not overly enthused about this. I understand his albums are amongst the biggest sellers of all time, but the whole thing was always a little lost on me. It struck me as a mixture of opera, rock, pantomime and drag; all very cartoonish and not really serious music. And his 1990s output "I'd Do Anything For Love' made me want to drive a large stake through my own heart rather than ever hear it again, and it was EVERYWHERE. No. 1 for about 9 weeks and constantly polluting the radio and jukeboxes, wherever I seemed to be at any given moment. Mind you, a lot of that hatred might have been to do with a young lady that I was enamoured with at the time, despite my young years. But I don't want to relive that particular past-Rory horror here.
Is it possible, I wonder, for my entire opinion of a performer to be formed around my dislike of just one song? Maybe. As I think I've said before - Paul McCartney is an undoubted genius, and I am in awe of his consistency and quality over the decades, but if I met him I would probably punch him in the face and say, "That's for 'Ob-la-Di, Ob-la-Da' you bastard". So yeah, maybe my thoughts can be clouded by one action that I dislike, but I don't think it's just that. Meat Loaf just always struck me as very over-rated, and it flummoxes me that people would spend an evening watching someone pretending to be him.
Anyway, I don't want to judge the act ahead of time, clearly...

RC 6-4-26