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...years ago, then Democratic Senator Zell Miller, whose home state of Georgia is the location of Coca-Cola headquarters, scoffed, "Our kids are not obese because of what they are eating in our lunchrooms at school. They are obese, frankly, because they sit around on their duffs watching MTV and playing video games, and to do something about that requires the role of the parents, not the role of the Federal Government." His Georgia colleague, Republican Saxby Chambliss, was equally dismissive of Harkin's plan to set federal nutrition guidelines for schools: "We would be a lot better...
Motion City Soundtrack “Hold Me Down” Dir. Alan Smithee Most videos in rotation on MTV are either promoting something else or desperately crying for attention. “Hold Me Down” manages to be neither—just a beautiful song with a beautiful video to match. Straying from your typical emo-pop-punk clip—which normally features a young TV starlet in an interweaving love story with the band’s homely frontman—the video is simply a well-filmed performance. Set in a vast open park...
...throughout the year. His performances use what he calls “the entirety of musical history.”However, Zornow’s earlier flings with pop paved the way to his current broad tastes. “It has to start with whoever you see on MTV,” he says. “Depending on your background, popular culture is the only way you can get exposed to certain things, and the door by which you can enter the whole culture. That was my introduction to rap.”Hearing Tupac and the Notorious...
...Media Class,” believes that the contemporariness of the material makes it more relevant. “A lot of the examples were really recent and were really up to date and I could identify with what they were talking about, like MTV and the rise of hip hop,” he says. THE NIGHT OF SELF-DOUBTEven those in favor of teaching pop culture, however, see the potential for falling into some dangerous traps.The aspect of “cool” that attaches itself to the study of mass culture can be worrisome to those...
...will appear to be as large as a skyscraper, a concept that seems to have been borrowed from the video for the Rolling Stones’ 1994 “Love is Strong.” This new video ditches the carefree fun, wit, and danceability that made every MTV-2-watching teen with a guitar dream of hitching to the East Village and enlisting in the band. “I don’t write better when I’m stuck in the ground,” and “All our friends, they?...