My hatas blue in the face like Gonzo

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Bone to pick with this dude for quite some time but haven't said anything: YOU DON'T GET TO DECIDE WHAT THE KIDS THINK IS COOL. If they wanna get down to ninnies, as Simon Reynolds calls 'em, then that means that NINNIES ARE COOL. I'm perfectly OK with this.

And it is with this qualifying rant that I link to:

V.I.C. - "Wobble"

Comments

[koganbot]

Good points. He really doesn't say why hip-hop was ever something cool to know about, or what cool is or why it might be desirable, but as you say instead he simply makes unstated assumptions that make cool the attribute of various demographics - and coolness is an attribute of himself only if he's the first in his demographic to get to it. If the wrong people get to it before he does - Bo Riley and Mike Gravel - then he's shit out of luck.

Poor guy.