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...idealistic innocence to disco-influenced apathy. Not so in Sweden, where the idealism behind sex, drugs and rock and roll had not yet degenerated to three-somes, cocaine and leisure suits. Luke Moodysson, director of 1998’s well-received Show Me Love, tells the story of the Swedish commune Tillsammans, whose members are trying to piece their ideals into a life, until the arrival of one of the member’s bourgeois sister and her two reluctant children disrupts their routine...
Delivering an improvised speech entitled, “Against Jesters Who Defame and Insult,” Fo used a series of drawings to criticize the Swedish Academy for choosing him and then delivered a discourse on institutionalized forms of violence ranging from the execution of medieval court jesters to recent assassinations of intellectuals in Turkey...
...music aren't mutually exclusive categories. In the '80s Paul Simon, David Byrne and Peter Gabriel blended world beats. More recently, Sting scored a hit with Algerian rai star Cheb Mami, Lauryn Hill covered Bob Marley on MTV Unplugged, and Britney Spears has made a habit of working with Swedish songwriter Max Martin. Madonna, on her latest tour, drew from so many cultures for sonic and sartorial inspiration, it was a surprise Kofi Annan didn't join her for an encore...
Even though it now operates out of a 400-acre West Virginia compound, Resistance has global lineage. The label was founded outside Windsor, Ontario, by a Canadian neo-Nazi skinhead. In 1999, after it was purchased by Americans, Resistance bought a Swedish label, Nordland Records, doubling its musical inventory...
...music Britney cavorted to, her new single "I'm a Slave 4 U," was also a major disappointment. It sounded like it was written by Prince's seventh cousin, like something you'd hear in the background of a bad Swedish porno film, only since the words were in English there was no hiding how insipid the lyrics were. The stage was filled with feline dancers, giving the appearance that Britney was trying to stage "Cats" off-Broadway. Memo to Britney: "Cats" is closed. At least try to re-stage, like, "The Producers" or something...