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There seems to be the tendency, when people complain about what they hear on the radio, for artists to say, "Well, if you don't like it, just turn it off." There's that shift in responsibility from artist to fan. Is that a disingenuous defense...
...asking questions and making better choices and trying to change society for the better. Yes, there was a lot of anger, but not by any means was it the dominant frame of the genre. Again, it's hard to tell this to people when they turn on the radio and they get T-Pain...
...think it is disingenuous because they know that this isn't just about turning off one song. You would have to turn off all commercial black radio. You'd have to shut down all of your children's and your own investment in MTV, BET, VH1. You would basically have to unplug from society as a whole. So they know this is not going to happen. They know you're not going to do it because that means rejecting the entire system, not just a given artist. There's also this idea that parents need to watch their kids more...
...stack of doctoral theses: "Not really. You can get a pint of Tetley's pretty much anywhere these days." Peter Reid - older, wiser and apparently with expletives depleted - also seems comfortable in Thailand. "It's an adventure," he says. "Even though you do miss home, I can get English radio through me laptop and the Premier League and European games are always on. It's a small world these days...
...next miracle, in other words, may be harder to pull off than the last one. That doesn't mean it won't happen. Consider what, in 1978, constituted a "rich" eligible bachelor in urban China. He had to own a radio; he had to be able to buy his bride a fashionable wristwatch made by a state-owned company no one would ever confuse with Rolex. And he had to commute on the coolest set of wheels available: a bicycle called the Phoenix...