Posts by Danielle
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Heh, Jolisa, that's fun. (Also, 'A Fifth of Beethoven': proof that the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack was the province of a bunch of elitists!)
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pop is an industry -- a top-down system in which prefabricated tastes are imposed from above
I am on your side here Caleb, but I must note that pop is also often what the pointy-headed elitists call a 'dialogue' rather than solely a top-down system.
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Terrific, and of course whenever there's a new kind of music on the scene the thing you've got to do is forget about everything that came before it.
I've already removed everything from 2009 back to the year dot from my music collection, based on this premise. I can fit everything on an iPod Shuffle! It's so... freeing.
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So... the brown kids have a crappy 'unoriginal' artistic culture you despise, and the middle-class people are patronising racists for daring to say they enjoy it. What a delightful view of the world you've articulated there, Paul.
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I realised Tainted Love was a cover; that's why I used it as an example.
:) I, personally, would like a taxpayer-funded commercial-free radio station dedicated entirely to the practically endless and radically egalitarian awesomeness that is soul music. I don't think this is going to happen, though...
I'm just nervous. How come they're expecting me?
Don't be nervous! Captain Stubing is going to ask you to dine at his table. With Charo!
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the theme from the Love Boat
Don't feel mutinous, Jolisa! It's an open smile on a friendly shore!
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Tainted Love was probably important in its own way.
Goddamn mutter mumble rhubarb bah!
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coughwholesaleripoffofNapoleonDynamitecough
And there's another movie I didn't like! (Apart from the opening credits.)
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Eagle vs Shark at the Embassy would be as crowd-pleasing as Nirvana doing a comeback show in Seattle.
Probably... although that film annoyed me in about 15 different ways. And I truly wanted to like it.
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Read the title of the post and immediately got a Buck Owens earworm. I've... got... a...