What is pop now? Meaning popular, easy-to-digest music? Justin Timberlake, Hannah Montana, and all that dance stuff is pop to me. Jonas Brothers. Anything that makes the little girls on my block absolutely hysterical. That is pop. The Beatles were considered just another boy band; they were not considered great geniuses in the studio or forerunners of innovation or brilliant composers until we got a chance to catch our breath and look back a bit.

And we realize still that no one comes close - 'cept maybe Brian Wilson -as far as pop genius goes. And The Beach Boys were pop too.

Perhaps there is a genius lurking somewhere in today's hysteria...