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Hey Jon Pareles: look at the two groups you've created here of drug casualties. One one side are rockstars from the past who "dosed themselves...behind closed doors" and, consequently, were free from the slings and arrows of public disapproval during their time. This group includes Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Gram Parsons, Sid Vicious, and Jerry Garcia. The other group you identify is those present day musicians who we can "watch...self-destruct in real time" via the internet. In this group you put Britney Spears and Amy Winehouse. Do you notice any difference between these two groups besides time period? Do you think that difference might be a better explanation for why people are "cruelly iconoclasic" toward them than, you know, the internet? Or at least a contributing factor?(That said, how depressing is it that "Rehab," a single from last year, got #1 on P&J? Or that of the top 10 singles only three and a half were actual pop hits?)
Labels: amy winehouse, music, nyt, p n j, pop
posted by Mike B. @ 9:55 AM
4 Comments:
Why is it depressing that "Rehab" was #1? I heard it in 2006, but most Americans didn't hear it until 2007. I'm guessing that before the Internet, singles from the U.K. routinely showed up a year late on P&J lists, and no one was too concerned about that because how [i]could[/i] we have heard them?
In a year where modern R&B was the sound of pop, a retro R&B song wins? It's like voting for the Steve Miller Band in 1977.
(Sorry, that's unfair. It's like the Steve Miller Band winning in 1977.)
I gotcha. I thought you were complaining about the fact that the song was released in 2006.
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