From Rodney Perkins Sent Sun, Jun 6th 1999, 15:45
Today's New York Times has a Simon Reynolds penned article entitled "Electronica Goes Straight to Ubiquity." It discusses the advertiser's trend of using electronic music. Here is my favorite quote: "If you compare a band like Korn with Fatboy Slim, both are very youth-oriented," said Robert Kaplan, the Messner music supervisor responsible for the Philips CD player commercial. "But Korn comes with a lot of baggage: it's very angry, sonically, vocally and lyrically. "Whereas Fatboy Slim doesn't stand for anything." In this view, it's the meaninglessness of dance music (or at least, the absence of an overt meaning) that lends itself to background usages of all kinds. http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/artleisure/electronica-ads.html If you don't want to sign up to read the entire article, use the following data: username: cypherpunks password: cypherpunks