Summary: Merritt indulging his epater le hipster Hongroiste tendencies (eg: "I only like black music up to Dizzy Gillespie"), says that he thinks 'Zip a dee doo da' is the only good happy song ever. S F-J accuses him of being a 'Song of the South' apologist, being a 'cracker', supporting slavery etc. Everyone gets in a big tizz. They all lez up. Fin.
Actually, I think at the time, Hopper accused him of etc etc, Sasha just linked to a post he'd made about Merritt a couple years back addressing the same issue.
i just read that the "zip-a-dee-doo-da" comment was in the context of guilty pleasures, which pulls that punch. also it makes me think that this explores the possibility of real actual guilty pleasures. i.e. not a song you love even tho "you shouldn't cos it's thort of as cheese/poor/low brow" but because the song is morally wrong, or tainted in some sense. (this really hadn't occurred to me til now!)
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Date: 2006-05-10 01:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-10 02:11 pm (UTC)They all look the same to meno subject
Date: 2006-05-10 02:21 pm (UTC)(stanley crouch of course wd say that ALL HIPHOP = MINSTRELSY for WHITEY)
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Date: 2006-05-10 02:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-10 03:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-10 03:46 pm (UTC)