"MARK STEYN: I do have a big problem with that, in that I think there's an absence of human feeling in these songs. It's not just that they're explicit. When you talk to social conservatives, they get upset because there's all these bad words in there. It's beyond that, actually. It's not just that there's this word or that word. But it's the absence of human feeling. JAY NORDLINGER: Of melody, of harmony? Of the fundamental elements of music except for (inaudible) MARK STEYN: Well, you say fundamental. "The fundamental things apply as time goes by," as Dooley Wilson sang in Casablanca. And I used to think that in the end, everybody aspired to the condition of romantic love as expressed in "As Time Goes By." You know, or "The Way You Look Tonight" or "The Very Thought of You." And I'm a bit concerned these days that the fundamental things are not going to apply as time goes by. And that when 14-, 15-, 16-year-old girls, when they're listening to Ke$ha, listening to, there's a song I was listening to called "Sex Room." You can guess what it's about. And actually it's very difficult, in New York or California, it's murder trying to get a zoning permit to put a sex room in your house. So it's also a big-government issue. It's a regulation issue. MONA CHAREN: I'm sure they'll be subsidized soon. MARK STEYN: And I was thinking, what is it like when that's the song you dance to at your first dance? And I'm not sure the fundamental things will apply as time goes by. JAY NORDLINGER: If I could say two things, rap has been all downhill since Sir Mix-a-Lot and "Baby Got Back"..." - Eric @ CS Techcast

"Mona Charen posted about it at National Review Online: The great Mark Steyn discussed rap "music" (a symbol of the decline of the West if ever there was one)." - Eric @ CS Techcast