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I think I read this first about science fiction, that you cannot claim both that a new genre exists and then that those who write in it are unoriginal. We have a discussion about Lady Gaga on the the Home Page. There Dean Michael Gores gave her an endorsement for her originality.
When I experience LG on YouTube videos, I see and hear the same, tired, post-modern, existentialist crap put into a catchy tune with synthesizers and wrapped-up with a generous helping of sexual innuendo (visual or vocal) in order to sell it. Because, as musical excellence goes, it wouldn't quite sell on its own merits.
You know, politicians have become pretentious celebrity-types and some of that is, from a distance, understandable. It allows politicians to deceptively acquire votes they couldn't, otherwise, get -- based on their own merits or stances on important issues. But the music profession, an art form, is supposed -- in my mind -- to be more pure and moral (in terms of honesty) than "professional politics." So this same "smoke-and-mirrors" behavior, when found in the music profession, is deplorable to me. The enterprise of acquiring unearned value is more easily understood when occurring in politic processes than it is when occuring in art.
In art, the enterprise of acquiring unearned value (success-without-talent) is as merit-empty and degrading as is putting lipstick on a pig, or of submitting shit-on-a-stick to an art gallery. These people (see below) don't have -- or at least don't show -- good taste.
Ed
Appendix:
A mere knock-off of "Pin-head" from that B-grade, hell-raiser movie.
Just a remake of "Dawn of the Dead" which should be retitled to read: "Dawn of the Less-Talent, More-Glitter Crowd"
(Edited by Ed Thompson on 5/14, 11:13am)
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