CBS Saturday Morning

I really enjoy CBS Saturday Morning but have a tough time appreciating the way Dana dresses. Her hair style does not suit her. The dresses she wears do not fit her at all. They make her look heavy and as though she was squeezed into it. Does the show not have people that "dress" the Anchors? She clearly has talent and does a great job with the segments she presents, but her look is not attractive at all! Dana is a lovely woman and I don't mean to be hurtful. This is a huge show and watched by many. I can't imagine that I am the only one who feels a makeover would be appropriate. Again, I do enjoy this show very much and will continue to watch.

I have no particular objections to the apparel either host of CBS Saturday Morning chooses to wear, and as far as a comparison between shows of this type goes, I generally find it to be informative and entertaining. The sole caveat to this, however, is the feature of the show called "Saturday Sessions," a segment of the show featuring up-and-coming musicians from various locales in the United States. I do not claim to have such a broad view of the music scene to claim a firm knowledge of what performers are new or established, and as it concerns this review, their place in the music landscape is really beside the point.

For the sake of expediency and at the risk of appearing. Ineloquent, let's just say that people like what they like in music. I happen to be particularly attuned to lyrics (e.g., Jimmy Ruffin's "What Becomes of The Brokenhearted or Harry Chapin's "Taxi"), but that's not to say I shirk the upbeat sounds of, say, M. C Hammer's " U Can't Touch This" or Cream's version of "Crossroads." Hammer has lyrics; Cream has lyrics; but that's ain't what you're enjoin', I reckon. (In either case-and before internet lyrics-who the hell knows what they're singing?)

The foregoing brings me to the crux of my bitch with the featured musicians on CBS Saturday Morning: I cannot remember a time when I could refrain from using closed captioning on the tube to understand just what it was they were singing. I do not doubt the talent of the respective performers; but if the song being offered is an attempt to evoke a mood, e.g., the melancholy of love lost, that mood is, at best, a fleeting moment between reading captions and watching the performers. (Well, maybe ephemera is just the ticket for a generation of attention-depleted phone huggers.)

So, who's at fault here? Is it the CBS studio? The musicians? My hearing and/or my television? D) All of the above. I don't know. I have read remarks similar to mine, but the director(s) of the show are apparently oblivious to this, and it's hard to say whether otherwise fine musicality and positive exposure is diminished when lyrics seem unintelligible.