(英会話リスニングスクリプト)
Modern pop began with rock 'n roll in the
early fifties and, basically, it was a mixture of black
beat music and white sentimental singing.
What was new about it was its aggression,
its sexuality, its volume and its beat.
It was louder than anything before it mainly
because of amplified electric guitars.
Rock 'n roll was very simple music.
All that mattered was the noise it made,
its power, its aggression and its newness.
Most of the lyrics were meaningless, simple
slogans, but this wasn't stupidity, the inability to write
anything better, but a kind of teenage code that made rock
incomprehensible to adults.
A famous British conductor said that rock
'n roll had been played in the jungle for centuries and
Frank Sinatra said that it was played by mindless morons.
For instance the first record I ever bought
was by Little Richard and it taught me everything I would
ever need to know about pop.
The message was: "Tutti frutti all
rootie, tutti frutti all rootie, awopbobaloobop alopbamboom!"
This was a brilliant summing up of what
rock 'n roll was all about.
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