And don't you think that people like us will say exactly the same of Britney/Christina in twenty years?
Don't know about 'people like us', but I sure as hell won't. And I've witnessed plenty of musical resurrections that I would rather had been left entombed. I had to listen to Pat Benatar "classics" when I was out for pizza last week and was intensely reminded of why I never liked her in the first place. And I could probably live the rest of my life never hearing another Mozart piece and not feel like I was missing anything. Except maybe the Requiem. But I've probably heard that enough anyway.
From: "Patrice L. Roussel" <proussel@ichips.intel.com> To: skip Heller <velaires@earthlink.net> CC: Nvinokur@aol.com, ecstasymule@hotmail.com, zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com, proussel@ichips.intel.com Subject: Re: eminem Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:00:39 -0800
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:47:19 -0800 skip Heller wrote:
If you've heard aetano Veloso's FINA ESTAMPA, you see how there's still
room
for interpretive genius. You look at Christina or Britney, you start to think about how the Monkees weren't such a bad deal.
And don't you think that people like us will say exactly the same of Britney/Christina in twenty years?
If you consider TV and entertainment, we can be sure that the "worse" is never reached; there is always room for improvement... That means that looking back at the past, with the help of nostalgia, kitsh, renewed interest, relecture of history, etc, and what we perceive as the sad state of current incarnations of entertainment, it is almost impossible to find a bad old artist :-). Everything from the past can be defended from one angle or another. On the other side the debate rages on current artists, due to total lack of perspective and confusion about the target of the product.
Patrice (guilty of dismissing current artists).
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