Word: 80s
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...high stakes too. The band's commitment, to its audience and its music, sanctions and encourages the kind of social concern that in the Reagan '80s became unfashionable, even antique. The album that The Joshua Tree displaced from the top of the chart is a revisionist rap record by the Beastie Boys, three well-born white teens copping street attitude but assuming social postures that teeter between preening smugness and snide irresponsibility. After arriving in Arizona, U2 discovered that Governor Evan Mecham had canceled the state's observance of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. U2 considered canceling the concerts...
...appeal and usher in the next generation of Canto-pop. His latest album, U87, is a bridge between past and future, showing off a rawness rarely found in Chinese pop and laced with the catchy, if corny, love songs that Hong Kongers have waved their glowsticks to since the '80s. He marks his rebellion with the track Bad Habit as he sings of refusing to give up his beloved cigarettes. Having finally won his musical independence after 10 years on the circuit, it doesn't look like Chan is going to give up on Canto-pop, either...
...soaring price of oil irrelevant? No, but this oil crisis is different. When OPEC choked off supplies in the 1970s and '80s, it set off a vicious circle of inflation, soaring interest rates and economic decline. But this time, oil prices are rising for the opposite reason: a big growth in demand, particularly from China, rather than a curtailing of supply. In addition, developed countries have generally reduced their dependence on oil as services have replaced manufacturing, while central banks have become smarter about nipping inflation in the bud. And critically, China's status as the low-cost workshop...
West is hardly the first person to bring a Buppie sensibility to rap. In the '80s, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, A Tribe Called Quest and LL Cool J successfully wove suburban perspectives into rebellious music, but when gangsta rap arrived, nuance was smothered by a blanket of extreme poses. Tupac Shakur, once a student at the Baltimore School for the Arts, died with THUG LIFE tattooed across his torso. On The College Dropout, West found a way to bridge the divide without self-destruction. His follow-up, Late Registration, arrives Aug. 30 and continues to mix race...
...euphemisms away from racism. But Dash, an African American who thinks exclusively in shades of green, is merely letting the world in on what's accepted as social fact by much of the record industry. Hip-hop was born in the '70s as party music and evolved in the '80s into that rarest of pleasures--socially relevant party music. But in the mid-'90s, the genre came to be dominated by people like Snoop Dogg (sample track: Murder Was the Case), the Notorious B.I.G. (Ten Crack Commandments) and Jay-Z (Rap Game/ Crack Game)--excellent rappers with a shrewd...