Word: metas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Aesthetics has its own meta-politics,” Burgin said...
Demography As Destiny Everyone arrived in Davos ready to talk about climate change, and plenty did. But for me, another meta-theme - much less evident on the formal program - kept cropping up in interesting ways. That was the idea that, as population continues to grow in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, even as the population in Europe stagnates at best, so huge and unpredictable political and economic power swings may follow. Certainly, the Indians present - this was the second year running that they provided a huge contingent, and threw some of the best parties, too - had the sort...
...Sister Ray” by Velvet Underground. Much as hipsters will hate to admit it: everyone’s kind of tired of irony. But what was great about the Velvets (and Andy Warhol) is that they were so fantastically good at being ironic about irony. Is it meta? Sure it is. Is it the only route left for cool? Probably. 6. “Louie Louie” by The Kingmen. A roommate of mine once related a story where the FBI spent years trying to determine if the lyrics to this song were obscene. It turns out that...
...Self-Promotion (she namedrops her own design line, L.A.M.B, in as many songs as she can). Perhaps she was shooting for another glitzy trophy to add to her mental collection when she penned the line “This is the most craziest shit ever”: Most Meta Song Lyric Of All Time. It seems fitting; after all, who knows crazy shit better than Gwen Stefani? Her “Rich Girl” video featured pirates. She sampled Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech. Her shit...
...media have become so focused on the business side of show business--and the offense-contrition-comeback cycle has become so familiar--that the scandals immediately became dispassionate meta-stories about scandal management. After Gibson's outburst, we asked how rehab and apology could salvage his Mayan thriller, Apocalypto. We didn't look so hard at how his bile reflected on the millions who loved The Passion of the Christ, with its hook-nosed, despicable Jews. About Richards, we asked, Did he seem sad enough on Letterman? What do p.r. experts advise? How will the incident affect Seinfeld reruns...