Word: genericism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hootie and the Blowfish, a new Top 40 feel-good "rock" band that oozes generic lyrics like "I always want to be with you" to monotone riffs lasting no longer than two minutes, merits a full-page photograph among the 48 glossy leaves of Time Warner's 1995 Annual Report. Hootie and his fish, a property of Time Warner's Atlantic Records label, created America's top-selling album for the previous year, gaining the obvious right to be heralded among the entertainment giant's other financial achievements, which together totaled over $3.3 billion in earnings...
...continuing poll of registered voters, only 15% call themselves Perot supporters, down from 20% five months ago. He is losing support fastest among the affluent and educated, who also tend to vote the most. Independent voters, says a poll by the Pew Research Center, would now prefer a generic third-party candidate to the razor-tongue billionaire...
Anyway, certain issues as generic to the character of the human condition as the one Jeffrey Vanke and I are debating--the issue of under what circumstances can perpetrators of massive cruelty and evil toward other human beings be considered morally restored to the humanitarian side of the Christian value system and community--can very well remain issues we disagree on. Such serious and awesome intellectual matters do not require a final answer, Mr. Vanke. I do, however, grant Jeffrey Vanke his morally vacuous formulation--his intellectual right to it--when he observes that "I do have a choice....There...
...opening scene seems straight out of a music video: minimalist stage, stark light, four actors encased in fashionably generic black and red. The impeccably timed dancing, emotionless and overtly sexual; the music, driving and anonymous. A heavily stylized plot takes shape--man fondles woman, who pulls away; another woman claws said man toward her--dominated by the same aggressively heterosexual assumptions that pervade MTV. The talons of this brand of "savage love" are thickly lacquered and varnished. And it's the ritualization of this savagery that makes it seem all the more deadly...
...times they sound somewhat generic, but Loud Lucy manages to create an original sound amidst the influence of its predecessors. In tracks like "On the Table," "I'll Wait," "Breathe" and "Clear World," we can easily see the debt they owe to other more recognized bands, but Lane puts his own stamp on the songs. He says that he wanted the album to be "poppy and happy," with "songs that you want to sing along with, songs that make you move." Admittedly, those ideals sound corny, but the band's attempt to be the modern day Beatles is admirable...