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Stussy's twist can mean embroidered Masai warrior shields in neon colors on a high school letter jacket or baggy jerseys bearing electric-haired African- warrior logos. Stussy has caught on big with musicians ranging from Public Enemy to Madonna. Next he hopes to get a bit more formal. Says his partner: "Shawn has always wanted to be like Armani...
Warner rightly points out that much early rock & roll (as well, I might add, as blues and jazz) consisted of white musicians' "outright thievery" of black musicians' work. This hardly justifies the same practice in 1991. After all, when Madonna's "Justify My Love" contains the exact same drum beat as James Brown's "Funky Drummer Beat," we witness the exact same phenomenon half a century later...
Will riots break out if it's discovered that all of Young MC's raps were recorded by a talented white youth in Canada? Will adoring fans demand refunds on their Madonna album purchases if they find that the material girl really is a virgin...
...befits the onset of the century's finale, a mixture of earnestness and irony -- a kind of American yin and yang -- characterized the year. The Northwest hamlet of Twin Peaks became the moody, ironic capital of the American landscape. Madonna, the queen of camp, literally and cheekily wrapped herself in the Stars and Stripes in a larky get-out-the-vote video. Even George Bush got into the irony act when he told America that since he is President, he no longer has to eat his broccoli...
...there seem to be very few places where that is not the case. Even in secular Iraq, teenagers jam the half a dozen or so little shops in downtown Baghdad that sell pirated copies of American rock-'n'-roll tapes and where the walls are covered with posters of Madonna and Metallica...