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...PLATTERS Vinyl is thriving in the digital age. Who buys LPs? Among others, jazz aficionados who want vinyl reissues and club DJs who still spin...
...success, Mohajer's attitude (the vinyl cover of her appointment book reads F___ IT!) is distinctly Gen X, light-years from boomers' idealized image of their own youth, forged in the crucibles of the civil rights, antiwar and feminist movements. Is there a generation gap? "Oh, my God, I'd have to say yeah!" she answers. Before Hard Candy, she wanted to be a plastic surgeon, a goal her father, a cancer researcher, opposed. "My dad does not believe medicine should be used for high-class fashion--it puts patients at risk," she explains. "But I think...
...they bump up against the untidy problems of adolescence each week, they also resemble the kids you might find flocking around a CK counter on a Saturday afternoon. Moesha may work at setting up a trip to Africa to research her heritage, but she also has a weakness for vinyl pants; Sabrina (Melissa Joan Hart) idolizes Annie Leibovitz but loves to dress like Audrey Hepburn; and though Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) may be great at offing vampires, she still cares deeply about making the cheerleading squad...
That was eons ago, in pop-cultural terms. Records were still on vinyl; CDs, VCRs, video games and home computers were barely dreamed of; and films were shown in theaters or, years later, on broadcast TV. Before Star Wars, a blockbuster movie was one that everybody, of every age, wanted to see once. The big hits of the '70s--Airport, Love Story, The Godfather, The Sting, Jaws--were broad based, reflecting the audience's demographic democracy. Star Wars devised a novel equation: here was a film every teenage boy wanted to see a dozen times. Lucas spoke, from his bionic...
Building buzz for an unknown singer on a little-known label is no easy task. Massenburg started by distributing 10,000 sampler cassettes featuring Badu to nearly everyone attending last year's Soul Train Music Awards; he also sent 2,500 vinyl copies of On & On to radio stations and clubs. The producer continued his campaign by persuading D'Angelo, the critically lauded neo-soul singer he had once managed, to join Badu in a remake of the Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell duet Your Precious Love for the sound track of the movie High School High. Then, a few weeks...