From Alex Reynolds Sent Tue, Jul 27th 1999, 14:10
From Alex Reynolds Sent Tue, Jul 27th 1999, 14:10
>Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 11:30:37 -0700 (PDT) >From: Blag <xxxx@xxxxx.xxxxx.xxx> >Subject: Re: (idm) KIDROCKstock > >Man, I don't care what anyone says, Kid Rock is the shit. He does not >give a FUCK.... the thought of this guy in his basement screaming "WHAT'S >MY NAME?" into a microphone... Are you sure you're not talking about Eminem? *cough* I only caught a glimpse of the extensive MTV coverage, but I do recall Kid Rock screaming, "America No 1! America No 1! We're number one baby!" when some asshole frat boy starting waving an american flag into the camera. What a dick. Counterculture, my ass. Kid Rock and Eminem are part of a disturbing marketing trend where rap music is directed towards poor white teenagers -- the "white trash" demographic that keeps Jerry Springer's ratings high. Anyone who thinks these two have an ounce of creativity or artistic credibility in them should be put up against a wall and sprayed with a garden hose. Woodstock was always about the money and the marketing, even up to the riot -- a brilliant tactic on the part of the producers to set up drama for Woodstock IV: The Sequel. Then we get to the "rave producers". Enter cokehead Matt E. Silver, who in some drugged-out fury screams repeatedly "This is the future, america!" when asked by a journalist about "the rave music." If you watch MTV, if you buy the products, if you go to the shows, you're buying into a pre-packaged, bland, homogenized, tasteless experience. You can call that elitism, you can call it whatever you want, but that's the reality. -ar