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The underage sex project with a hit record.
By Rob Walker
Posted Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 2:27 PM PT
For earlier generations, questions like "Beatles or Stones?" and "Pistols or Clash?" were meant to reveal something deeper than a musical preference—maybe even a whole cultural ideology. Pop music today offers no such intricate dichotomies; the best we can do is, "Britney or Avril?" In other words, do you prefer your underage pop star in a spunky Barbie-doll package or in a vaguely rebellious tomboy pose? On the other hand, today's global pop market does offer what might be called a Third Way: How about Avril and Britney—making out.
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someone asked me to post this again.
t.A.T.u.
The underage sex project with a hit record.
By Rob Walker
Posted Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 2:27 PM PT
For earlier generations, questions like "Beatles or Stones?" and "Pistols or Clash?" were meant to reveal something deeper than a musical preference—maybe even a whole cultural ideology. Pop music today offers no such intricate dichotomies; the best we can do is, "Britney or Avril?" In other words, do you prefer your underage pop star in a spunky Barbie-doll package or in a vaguely rebellious tomboy pose? On the other hand, today's global pop market does offer what might be called a Third Way: How about Avril and Britney—making out.
( Read more... )
