Word: fame
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...post-musical musical moment. There are a number of films out now or coming out soon that really want to be musicals but don't want to actually admit that they are musicals. Musicals just aren't seen as cool and hip enough these days. Hey, I still think "Fame" is a way cool movie. But maybe there's a reason it's not available...
...think the fact that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (the originators of this exhibition) and now the Brooklyn Museum of Art have taken on "Hip-Hop Nation" is a mainstream institutional recognition that hip-hop is the most important youth culture on the planet, bar none. And that has been the case for some time...
...Hallowed with time and Revolution fame...
...Video Music Awards (it's fine as a novelty track on an album, but to perform it in front of a crowd of rock legends?) and b) stripping down and writhing on the floor, fake hair extensions and caked makeup ensuring her place in the Elizabeth Berkeley hall of fame...
...irrelevant, that haunting possibility of becoming "domesticated" drives Madonna to be so desperately ambitious, impossibly brilliant and acutely self-aware. Madonna knows the impact of her own revolutionary spirit--the world has become incredibly small to her, if you think about it--and that has brought her both gargantuan fame and the stigma of arrogance. There is no question that Madonna has developed into somewhat of a pretentious personality. She clings to a smarmy British accent, bashes Britney Spears and the other teen pop stars even though her early music was just as packaged and diluted, complains about the "sucky...