tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26803842.post2533655803325604135..comments2023-09-12T10:28:00.525-04:00Comments on mincetapes: real is the old fakeK. Ross Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07153047422374716535noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26803842.post-2703840986232297442007-11-22T02:04:00.000-05:002007-11-22T02:04:00.000-05:00imani - album title duly amended. any thoughts ab...imani - album title duly amended. any thoughts about the rest of this nonsense i'm (unqualifiedly) spouting about your career/music/genre? and thanks for stopping by!<BR/><BR/>dave - i think the issue is precisely that the "rock" stars of today are making pop music, not rock - though my question is why is rock so priveleged (i mean, rap for instance is just as authentic and rebellious, if not more so - and there are certainly rap stars.) as far as britney goes, it seems like frank meant something fairly specific by calling her a rock star - a noncomformist, basically - that actually has very little to do with her "star" persona (which in turn has very little to do with her music.K. Ross Hoffmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07153047422374716535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26803842.post-82809070262388633312007-11-21T09:52:00.000-05:002007-11-21T09:52:00.000-05:00Celebration of r'n'r' death, or at least an attemp...Celebration of r'n'r' death, or at least an attempt to hustle it into its grave - "I'd Rather Jack" by the Reynolds girls, from 1988.<BR/><BR/>"No more Pink Floyd Dire Straits<BR/>It's not our music it's out of date<BR/>Demographic stereo<BR/>They never play the songs we know<BR/><BR/>Heavy metal rock and roll music from the past<BR/>I'd rather jack than Fleetwood Mac"Tom Ewinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01683106707439164842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26803842.post-67856999748459122752007-11-15T00:40:00.000-05:002007-11-15T00:40:00.000-05:00Well Frank Kogan just argued for Britney as ROCK S...Well Frank Kogan just argued for Britney as ROCK STAR in his <A HREF="http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/content/nc/news/single-story/article/rules-of-the-game-no-23-out-from-under" REL="nofollow">latest column</A>, even though she doesn't sound rock (so in fact she would be exactly the sort of thing that's being talked about in the lyric and not the rock-sound coming into pop). And he was building, I think, on some observations Nia made, quasi-presciently (and she doesn't even really like the new Britney album) over on the teenpop thread earlier this year.Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13148394237957464053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26803842.post-72289379214279572202007-11-14T22:23:00.000-05:002007-11-14T22:23:00.000-05:00The correct name of the album is "Post Traumatic P...The correct name of the album is "Post Traumatic Pop Syndrome" and you can find both "Woodstock" and "Fake Is the New Real" on that album...<BR/><BR/>"difficult" yes maybe...but absolutely nothing boring about my new album. <BR/><BR/><BR/>thanks<BR/><BR/>imaniimani Coppolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08287813215299796095noreply@blogger.com