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[anthonyeaston.livejournal.com]

I know what the party line is, and i follow it most days, Pop is fun, Pop is candy, Pop is nostalgia, don't take pop too seriously, being meta, being over the top. being camp, stripping shit down to its basic bass bump is SOP, and nothing is too stupid to avoid defenders, cause all of it is a kids game played by grown-ups, and if i want things to be serious, then well go listen to Dylan or something.

Trace Adkins new single is old news, its been on all the message boards, the videos all over CMT, late nite comix have made as many jokers as the bloggers have, and I should be able to just laugh it off. Hony Tonk Badonkadonk, oh look its a booty song, oh look its about women, isnt it "clever". But I keep thinking that it hates women, and its quasi racist, and shit like this blows up, when genuine slippages b/w hip hop and country go unlistened to by anyone but critics.

Even worse, Adkins' last song was called Arlington, the only song abut the iraq war that actually mentions bodies in the ground.

I want pop to be about something. Thats horribly naive of me, isnt it ?

Thru the stage magic of theory, I have made culture about things it wasnt--i convinced myself that Jessica Simpson was a pop goddess, and the rise of Crazy Frog was the rise of a new prophet. How long can you mainline sugar before you become a diabetic though? Even Chely Wright's Bumper of my SUV, said something, said something horribly fascist, and kind of silly, but had an opinon beyond "I like to fuck broads with big asses"

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[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I suspect that I may not be alone amongst all the British members of this group in never having so much as heard of the person or the record or whatever controversy there is.

And the party line you outline doesn't seem to have that much in common with the party line I'm familiar with around here.

Party Line

[(Anonymous)]

To quote myself "The smart artist brings terror and conflict to the party because he thinks it will make a better party, not to make the party more 'realistic.'" (P. 283 of my book, which drops in 10 days, and I want you all to buy it, but don't buy the hardcover version, which is for libraries only and is ridiculously expensive and I'm not even sure they're actually going to print it; anyway, Amazon claims it'll sell the paperback for 30% off or something, which'll put the price somewhere around $16 [don't know what that is in pounds].) As for the party line, no, it's not the party line, but in practice there are tendencies around here to defiantly plump for the frivolous and to knock down a fabulously great Miranda Lambert song in favor of a fabulously silly M-O-R-N-I-N-G-W-O-O-D song and to excoriate the valiant Italian team for bringing grunge metal to the pop cup.

Real Pops Don't Dish Punk

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Trace Adkins s/d: Search "I'm Tryin'" (made my P&J list 2001, man tryin' to pay the rent pay the alimony not screw up, but tryin' doesn't necessarily mean succeeding, does it?); destroy "Songs About Me," which is yet another country attempt to bully us into accepting that its life is the real life.

Man with a baritone.

"Honky Tonk Badonkadonk": The singing is surprisingly weak for Trace; he's better with serious sadness. I don't find this nearly as offensive as the "Songs" song. Also, as you know, I like the Jessica Simpson "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" video a lot, and you placed the song on your Country Critics top ten, and that sure has her wielding her badonkadonk. I suppose there's something smug or too comfortable about "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk," as if those badonkadonks are just there for him to feast on (as opposed to Jessica's sexy chaos-maker), but I don't necessarily see this song as putting its fans at odds with equal pay for equal work.

Also, any song with a dance beat (and a disco break!) means more than "I like to fuck broads with big asses." Liking big asses is itself a choice, and anyway, what one does with an invitation to shake one's big-ass moneymaker isn't written into the song itself.

[(Anonymous)]

Say more about Jessica Simpson, Pop Goddess. (So far, I'm more infatuated with the rock goddess kid sister.)

Moody Messy Spice

jessica

[anthonyeaston.livejournal.com]

I am saying that I think I was wrong, about Jessica Simpson and my love for her. It was fetid, and complicated, and I brought things to the table that weren't there, hoping that she would love me past her cababilities. Also shes more of a tits then arse girl.

and i want to hear more from frank, about this "Also, any song with a dance beat (and a disco break!) means more than "I like to fuck broads with big asses." "