The world turned upside down

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yesterday on the sex discussion the Lex said some interesting stuff about how acts like Lil Kim were "important and subversive" for reversing real-world expectations of predatory/dominant men and weak females.

This specific example got a bit of comment but what interested me was the old buzzword "subversive" - do you think that pop can still (if it ever did!) act as a subersive space in which social norms can be reversed or otherwise played with? And if not pop, how about more subcultural musical areas?

Comments

there is no such thing as [insert pet hate here]

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i am going to look at some recent wires properly b4 i have lunch with mr w!re tomorrow, for exactly this problem

---> GIANT ENORMOUS BRILLIANT ThORT:
that i propose a start-up of my "USE OTHER WORDS PLEASE" project! the entire point of w!re is bein AHEAD of this curve, not WAY behind it

plz santa not to give give me plague for pressweek :\

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

oh s0d he just cancelled! he is ill also!! (tho actually this is handy as regards prep-time for LOADS OF THINGS)