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...better--freer, wilder--than their parents. We listened to our music to show that we were better--worldlier, smarter--than our peers. Sure, the '60s had cult bands like the Velvet Underground, but G.I.s in the Mekong Delta and grad students with deferments all listened to the Doors. When Madison Avenue later tried to reach them, it did so with songs like the Beatles' Revolution that were part of everybody's pop-culture patrimony. Only by the '80s could there be a thing called "college rock": music defined not just by its sound but also by its audience's social...
...believe that advertising does things to us, that some impersonal, omnipotent force--"the market," "big business"--divides us to conquer, slicing us into targeted subsets. But if we're to be honest, we did much of this job ourselves. We divided, we conquered. Who, after all, are the faceless Madison Avenue suits stealing our music for ads? They're us. The battle of high school is over, and we won. The rest of the world now has to watch our videos, even if they're 30 seconds long and end with blurbs about 2.9% APR financing. Should we care that...
This is a war waged block by block, house by house. If it is too much to try to battle the forces of Hollywood or Madison Avenue or the Nintendo Corp., at least you can resolve that just because the kids down the street watch unlimited TV doesn't mean your kids should too. You can enforce a curfew, assign some chores and try hard to have dinner together regularly. And then hope that the experts are right when they say that what kids mainly need is time and attention and love, none of which takes American Express...
MICHAEL JACKSON's 30th Anniversary Celebration, the Solo Years--a two-night, self-thrown tribute to be held at Madison Square Garden in September--is bound to be a cornucopia of good taste. Liza Minnelli will perform You Are Not Alone with a 300-voice gospel choir; Marlon Brando will make a rare live non-nude appearance; and the JACKSON 5--older and stiffer but surely just as cute--will reunite. Indeed, five Jacksons will reunite--but not all are original. Citing "the exorbitant prices being charged" for the event, Jermaine Jackson is a conscientious objector. Jermaine claimed that...
Rubin became the new president, and the group changed its name in response to concerns over the pro-slavery views of namesake James Madison...