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Corin Tucker, singer and guitarist for the great punk trio Sleater-Kinney, was talking about the night she crossed paths with the Backstreet Boys. "They were recording in the same studio. It was"--in a perfect mall-rat accent--"we're definitely meeting them. For sure. We met the one, I think his name is Kevin." She was asked whether the pop star treated her as if she were a besotted fan or another musician. "Well!" Tucker said. "Total besotted fan. He didn't see me as a musician at all. He doesn't know...
...when the members of the San Diego pop-punk trio Blink-182 were teens, punk rock was composed by outcasts for outcasts--it was music about being abnormal. The title of a song by English punks UK Subs said it all: You Don't Belong...
...overall message of Blink-182's new CD, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket (MCA), can be summed up as "You belong." This is a form of punk that tries to speak to jocks as strongly as it speaks to weirdos. The simplicity, profanity and high velocity associated with punk rock are all in place, but the subject matter is often the stuff of Freddie Prinze Jr. movies. Nearly every song is concerned with a universal adolescent experience: a terrifying first date; a holiday with grotesque relatives; a romance at a rock concert. Anthem Part Two presumes to whine...
...problem is that to make its punk rock accessible, Blink-182 coats the music with studio effects until it's too smooth to evoke the miseries of high school. The tirades against priggish adults on this CD are unconvincing because the music seems afraid to offend the ears of stuffy establishment types. If you're so screwed up, one wants to ask, how come you sound so well adjusted...
...When Air released its album Moon Safari early in 1998, the world discovered the awesome potential French music could have once it freed itself from its inferiority complex. While precursor Daft Punk remained rooted in the strobe-lit euphoria of dance culture, Air's eclecticism hitched up '60s film soundtracks with drum machines and spacey synthesizers to create a crisp pop sound you could listen to outside the nightclub...