Thursday, November 04, 2004
I don't know quite what to make of it (the analogy, that is)- the ideas themselves not so original.
"One cannot imagine that many fans of the boy band are also aficionados of the rapper; the evocation of heterosexual romance espoused by 'N Sync and numerous similar groups (Backstreet Boys, 98 Degrees, and LFO) has little in common with the taboo-breaking practices of Eminem. The differences are stark, and more than one commentator has compared this fissure in taste among the broad scope of American consumers of popular music to the ideological chasm revealed by the 2000 presidential election. The antithetical relationship between the romantic idealism of the boy bands and the social realism of rappers bears a remote resemblance to the national split in voting patterns between the long-standing Democratic bastions of the industrial North and Midwest as against the Republican strongholds of the Sunbelt and Far Wes. We seem to inhabit a nation divided against itself, culturally and politically- divided not only between red states and blue but between (in both red and blue states) ballads and bellicose ranting"
- from "Valuing Popular Music" (2005)
It will make a quiant period piece, someday, I suspect.
"One cannot imagine that many fans of the boy band are also aficionados of the rapper; the evocation of heterosexual romance espoused by 'N Sync and numerous similar groups (Backstreet Boys, 98 Degrees, and LFO) has little in common with the taboo-breaking practices of Eminem. The differences are stark, and more than one commentator has compared this fissure in taste among the broad scope of American consumers of popular music to the ideological chasm revealed by the 2000 presidential election. The antithetical relationship between the romantic idealism of the boy bands and the social realism of rappers bears a remote resemblance to the national split in voting patterns between the long-standing Democratic bastions of the industrial North and Midwest as against the Republican strongholds of the Sunbelt and Far Wes. We seem to inhabit a nation divided against itself, culturally and politically- divided not only between red states and blue but between (in both red and blue states) ballads and bellicose ranting"
- from "Valuing Popular Music" (2005)
It will make a quiant period piece, someday, I suspect.
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