Ms. Aguilera's work is feminist?
Sex with robots is more common than most people think.
Spike ,'Lineage'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
tommyrot - Oct 31, 2004 10:01:57 am PST #5686 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Jon B. - Oct 31, 2004 10:06:06 am PST #5687 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Sanneh seems to paint things into two opposite corners where music is really a continuum.
She makes some good points, but then throws in stupid comments like "There's a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for doo-wop groups and folk singers and disco queens and even rappers - just so long as they, y'know, rock."
Uhh... it's the ROCK AND ROLL hall of fame, not the Music hall of fame.
Angus G - Oct 31, 2004 4:15:40 pm PST #5688 of 10003
Roguish Laird
Fair enough, I look forward to someone started the doo-wop hall of fame!
There is actually now a dance music hall of fame, and no doubt a hip-hop one won't be far behind.
I guess, though, the point is that because rockists treat rock music as the paradigm case of all popular music, rival institutions will inevitably be treated as marginal by the music press and so on. But I'm pretty suspicious of any attempt to institutionalise a popular music canon, so personally I'd bomb the lot of them.
tommyrot - Oct 31, 2004 4:18:40 pm PST #5689 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I found the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to be scary.
Gandalfe - Oct 31, 2004 4:59:43 pm PST #5690 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
I found the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to be scary.
What specifically about it?
tommyrot - Oct 31, 2004 5:02:37 pm PST #5691 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Too slick and corporate.
Not that there's anything wrong with that - just not my personal preference.
Jon B. - Oct 31, 2004 5:07:57 pm PST #5692 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I've no use for the R&R Hall of Fame either. It's still a stupid comment.
Rio - Oct 31, 2004 8:03:00 pm PST #5693 of 10003
Are you ready to be strong?
But the basic point still stands -- most music writers are rock biased, which makes them unable to appreciate a lot of current pop culture, which makes them actually unqualified for their so-called jobs.
Angus G - Nov 01, 2004 2:28:17 am PST #5694 of 10003
Roguish Laird
Agreed Rio. I think some of her examples are just a little bit strange, like if you want to pick a pop song from 1979 that would have been considered "disposable" at the time in comparison to Van Morrison and is now an unimpeachable classic, I'd have gone for "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough".
t edit Actually, it appears the author is a man. So make that "his examples".
Jon B. - Nov 01, 2004 2:41:10 am PST #5695 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
if you want to pick a pop song from 1979 that would have been considered "disposable" at the time in comparison to Van Morrison
Seriously. "The Message" was never considered disposable.