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...inspirational, motivating, cathartic, emotional, poignant, energetic, disturbing, controversial, touching, stirring, therapeutic and beautiful today as it has ever been. Yes, let us start “talking ’bout my generation.” Let us start talking about the merits of a society where Eminem, Britney Spears, Celine Dion, Foo Fighters, 3 Doors Down, Tori Amos, Linkin Park and U2 can all contribute to an amazing diversity in music. Let us start talking about my generation: one that can discern the merits of others and respect them...
...Like her spiritual kin Eminem, Inul Daratista is whatever you say she is. Her singing would make Simon Cowell cringe, but she regularly packs concerts and performs on national television. She hasn't released a single recording, but one critic estimates that some 3 million pirated VCDs of her performances have been sold in Indonesia. Muslim clerics denounce her bump-and-grind dancing, attempt to ban her concerts, even pray for rain to keep impressionable fans away from her shows, yet politicians are lining up to recruit her support for the 2004 elections. She's become the live wire connecting...
...about 20 spectators stood by, Litinsky placed his boombox on the ground and cranked up a sound track of Eminem rap songs, nearly drowning out the trumpet. Waving his arms like an emcee, he began to call out, “Wake up France! Time to go to action! Time to get Saddam out of power...
With the possible exception of Eminem and a few veteran rappers like Snoop Dogg, it just seems like music has become a means to an end rather than art for art’s sake. Musicians are preoccupied with staying in the spotlight rather than with writing music. We’ve granted them a measure of fame they don’t deserve. What should have been 15 minutes of popularity has turned into almost a decade of painfully saccharine cliches...
...panelists often mentioned Eminem and Elvis Presley as examples of white artists who they said adopted black music forms and appealed to a large and wealthy white audience more than their black counterparts...