From Jonathan Takagi Sent Fri, Apr 9th 1999, 04:53
From Jonathan Takagi Sent Fri, Apr 9th 1999, 04:53
> Momus recently suggested that rather > than everybody being famous for 15 minutes, in the future everybody will be > famous for 15 people. That's what it's getting like, and that's why we > should be getting worried. I pretty much agree with the article, however much I may like the music. However, it's really weak to quote an artist who's carrying out his own prediction. It's like me saying "in the future men will wear skirts" and then I start wearing skirts. Momus has recently found 30 people willing to pay $1000 each to be canonized on his next record--30 songs, each 2 minutes long, about each of the donors. So Momus is basically becoming famous for 30 people (except for the already famous donors, like Cornelius). Nothing bad about Momus, it's an ingenious idea, just a dubious choice of quotes to sum up an article. Jonathan