Hate to kick off the comments with a non sequitur when you've written so brilliantly about the Grammys and popular music, but I'm still stuck on your first words being "Yeah, yeah, yeah."
See, not long ago I had a dream that I was watching a friend's 3-month-old baby. He was threatening meltdown, so I was bouncing him and singing, and then I asked him some nonsense question of the kind people ask babies on the verge of crying, and he said, "Yeah, yeah," in a typically blase NY way. I ran into the kitchen to tell my friend, and she was like, "Yeah, I know. He's been saying it for *weeks* now. A few months old, and already jaded. We're still waiting for 'mommy' or 'daddy' or even 'hello.'"