Yep, says Deborah Harold to me too.

I always think this is Blondie when it first comes on.

I hate that I love this.  Even my cleaner said its 5h1t!

I always think this is Blondie when it first comes on.

So many RP listeners act like pointing out the possible influences of a band somehow dismisses whatever creativity is happening. 
I don't get it.
Influences are inevitable- and if it sounds like something 20 years ago, but isn't as cool as what you're mind is relating it to.... oh well. 
My guess is most of these types of comments come from people who don't play music and don't understand that there's only so much you can do in the field of "popular music" and most likely couldn't write a song half as cool as this.

I just don't get what the big deal is about this band.... bubble gum to me..

I think a lot of the issues you and I have are based more on world outlook than practical differences.  

Intelligently planned communities, built with an eye for sustainability, low environmental impact, and common sense are not a bad thing at all.  I don't have anything wrong with subdivisions for housing (at least not on moral grounds, it's just not to my taste), but the kind of sprawl that bothers me is the commercial sprawl that leaves urban decline in it's wake.  

Let me give you a prime example of it from where I live.  About 7 or 8 miles out of town, a brand new, shiney, outdoor shopping center was opened.  It was skewed to a slightly upscale buying audience in order to draw money out of the city and the surrounding areas.  It has proven to be a successful venture for most of the stores located there and it's pretty much the shopping destination for anyone able to drive out there.  It was located in what used to be farm land owned by a couple of families.  They got their check, the developers got their check, and the businesses there get their checks.  Everyone is happy.

Except for the people that lived near and within walking distance of a closer mall.  Granted the mall was dated, but if the city had given the mall ownership even a fraction of the support given to the new shopping center, they would have been able to refresh it and keep it up to date.  Instead, the stores inside withered as the buying population went to the new stores.  People lost their livelihoods and life savings trying to save stores, but as the anchor stores left, so too did the majority of the shoppers.  All that were left was the poor, those who could not afford the merchandise at the shopping center, or didn't have reliable transportation to get there.  As stores left the area, they took jobs with them.  As the jobs left the area, people could not longer afford to shop for anything, and the remaining shops closed down.  

Now, instead of a mall, there is one giant, weed choked slab of concrete.  The people in the immediate area are suffering more because what few employers they did have left.  Now, crime is higher in those areas, the roads are deteriorating to be nearly unusable so that those that can find work, have to destroy their cars to get there.

Before you say "them's the breaks", consider both the economic and social benefits of just refreshing and renovating what was already there. The land would still be productive farmlands, thus contributing to the local economy.  There would be more jobs in the area (granted, not great jobs, but everyone has to start out somewhere and it always beats no job).  The area wouldn't be as dangerous for the residents.  The roads would not have crumbled so those that work would be able to make their cars last longer.  

Personally, I'd rather not have to drive further than necessary to spend more for something that I could have gotten closer for cheaper.

As for any moral superiority of a high rise over a split level ranch, you are right (edit...  I hate split level houses.  When I worked as a cable installer I had to go into several and they are a nightmare to wire and I think they waste a lot of space).  Personally, I'd rather have a nice house on a wooded countryish lot than an apartment in a high rise somewhere.  I don't begrudge anyone the right to live where ever they want.  The issue I do have is the incessant need that people have for bigger and better things at the cost of common sense, logic, and sustainability.  If you want a house away from the city, fine.  But does your house really need to have 5 bedrooms and a bathroom every 17 feet? 

The issue isn't a policy one, or even a social one.  My issues are all cultural.  I disagree with the throw away culture just as much as I disagree with the culture of ethnocentrism where people will stare in the face of reality and still declare that the American way of doing ANYTHING is better, simply because it's the American way.

Edit:  RDO, next time I'm in DC, I want to take you out for a beer or 12.  I've had more fun debating you on this forum than I have arguing with anyone.  Most of the people with differing views are about as inarticulate as a turnip and always end up with an argument that tells me they feel that way because Glenn Beck told them to.

2.8% of RP listeners think so......which says more about you and your lack of taste than anything else.  

..........a solid 1.....

I just don't get what the big deal is about this band.... bubble gum to me..

Great song!   It was a great song in 1979 when it was "Heart of Glass".