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...doesn’t always leave Grime behind. The genre??s sonic thumbprints–oozing bass, hollowed-out synths, electronic squeaks, and punchy guitar doodles–are all over a few tracks...
Chick-lit has gotten a bum rap in the past few years, and Viswanathan’s actions did little to improve the genre??s reputation. But McCafferty, as the Village Voice pointed out in May, should not suffer for Viswanathan’s sins; it may be easy to deride the author who inspired the bulk of Viswanathan’s plagiarism, but it’s not fair to do so without reading her work...
...Divelbliss says. “You can express what it is you want to express [with] your own music vocabulary.” “Modern is appealing to people who haven’t seen dance before,” says Chan of the genre??s approachability. “It’s not based strictly on technique. It involves a lot of aesthetics in terms of how people are placed on the stage and how people are moving to the music.” Despite the difficulty of being a small, creative force...
...surprising connections between characters strain believability at times, but remember, we’re dealing with a fundamentally implausible genre??the fun is in each side trying to outmaneuver the other, and in the twists and turns of the plot, not in whether the plot is realistic. At least the technology used by each side actually exists (there’s even a crack about how one fancy gadget can probably be found on Amazon...
...their numerous predecessors are ostracized. Though these sequential links are vital, slicing the intricate mesh of hip-hop’s connections into easy “lineages” of progressive influence and success, as a conventional exhibition format is likely to do, is antithetical to the genre??s amorphous structure. Underground pioneers the Wu-Tang Clan hint at this dilemma when they ask nostalgically, “Can It Be All So Simple”, eventually breaking down “fly clichés” and easy street/smart dichotomies in favor of an epic...