Little Steven, Savior Of Musical Integreation
November 20th, 2007 at 3:23 pm by Gerard
Here’s a headline you might not see on the front of tomorrow’s NY Times Arts & Leisure section :
“Timberlake Dropped : Appropriation of African-American Styles Said To Be Wildly Unpopular”.
November 20th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
These are the sort of articles that really freak me out. Is it possible that every article in the NY Times is as full of shit as this one?
November 20th, 2007 at 9:38 pm
David Brooks is truly a moron. Every single thing he writes is unreadable, nonsensical hogwash. It isn’t that he’s a conservative – it’s that he’s legitimately stupid.
November 21st, 2007 at 2:46 pm
The fact that he referenced Sasha Frere-Jones justifies questioning his intelligence.
November 21st, 2007 at 4:56 pm
I think Big Boi wore the exact same outfit Brooks is wearing in Idlewild….just saying.
November 28th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Dave– the answer is yes, on almost everything. My own greatest scorn comes from their moronic, middlebrow coverage of New York City, music and literature but is there any reason to think other subjects are covered any better? That Ben Ratliff’s idiotic Coltrane book has been fulsomely praised along with Alex Ross’ inane classical pastiche is akin to the world institutional circle jerk hegemony where Springsteen & U2 were the fucking Zeus & Apollo of the musical arts. Re: David Brooks, he’s (almost) beneath contempt/comment, although Patrick said it well.