Hockey and Music/ was Eating and Working

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jan 23 06:13:53 PST 2002


Eric Franz Leher wrote:


>Of course we would have to do without high-quality musical satire a la
>the Dead Kennedys, simply because targets would be lacking. No landlords
>to lynch, no poor to kill, and no holidays in Cambodia.
>
>On the plus side, no Backstreet Boys and so forth.

Hmm, well, the Backstreet Boys are lots more popular than the DKs, which are a relatively elite taste (and now an antiquarian one too). So popular entertainments will disappear? Or is the popularity a symptom of a psychosocial pathology? Most urgently, will there be Madonna after the revo?

Doug



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