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...neither unlawful nor uncaring for adults to say that children should be seen but not heard. Kids got to be kids as they ran around outside playing hide-and-seek under the stars without worry of being snatched, molested or organized into youth activities, while parents sipped beer or pop while playing Yahtzee with their pals after hand-washing the dinner dishes. Nobody felt slighted, and nobody called child protective services. How sad and ironic that television - primarily responsible for making a mishmash of family life - should inadvertently be the one to call attention to the current sorry state...
Beats from the Streets Kudos for interviewing 50 Cent [Sept. 24.] He's a force of nature. Learning that his nickname is "a metaphor for change" gives me greater respect for him. But I take issue with his claim that Kanye West's music is "aimed at a straight pop audience." West's hip-hop is less gangsta and therefore softer, but it is also more substantive. If anything, gangsta rap is more pop. I love a good 50 Cent beat, but I keep waiting for him to say something more meaningful. Instead of competing to sell records, 50 Cent...
...comparative sexual frankness, we live in an age of openness,” she says. “It is not true. When it comes to living our lives, we are not open at all. There is contradiction and division.” Pollitt believes that modern pop culture contributes to this reticence. “We are living in a visual culture, a commercialized, sexual culture,” she says. “We are living at a time where people feel like they have to put their best face forward.” One part of that...
...Reggae-pop sensation Sean Kingston is back with his second music video, “Me Love.” After topping this summer’s charts for three weeks with “Beautiful Girls,” Kingston revisits the chorus from Led Zeppelin’s “D’yer Mak’er” and delivers another hit. As the smiling chorus opens up, Kingston appears, neatly dressed, true to his clean-cut image. The cheerful, cute lyrics surprisingly tell the somber story of a long lost love. The clubbers...
...slowly builds upward into tenser and more earnest territory. Like “Magic,” “Up on Your Leopard, Upon the End of Your Feral Days” is not what it initially seems: what begins as a somewhat silly candy-covered synth-pop wash evolves subtly into a furious electronic symphony, and then transforms yet again into a guitar-driven tempest. Here is “Lover”’s finest moment. The album does, however, have its shortcomings. After about ninety seconds of bizarre vocal interjections and erratic drumming...