Thread 127453028

After taking in Girls Against Boys' searing analysis of the culture-killing boypop scam in The Nation, which certainly needed the heads-up, I sought a class enemy to hit on, but the best I could do was this mildly annoying Old Kid. Featureless funk holds up an album that rode to gold on the back of the overstated title ballad. It's not even tripe--more in the line of twaddle, only less pretentious. Right, he should act his age like his ex-bandmate Jordan, and deserves the obscurity to which he will soon return. But in a world that contains George W. Bush, we're well advised to figure out at just what point bland feel-goodism becomes murder. B-

>>127453028 (OP)
>After taking in Girls Against Boys' searing analysis of the culture-killing boypop scam in The Nation, which certainly needed the heads-up
it's an interesting sort of way of how things changed since the 90s.

>The Nation, always a super leftist rag, runs an article about how Britney, Backstreet Boys, and other corporate pop trash were ruining the culture and preventing serious music from being heard
>those same publications would in 2010 to present extol said corporate pop trash for smashing the patriarchy or something

>>127453028 (OP)
idk what the fuck OP is talking about but fuck yeah GVSB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax51VG5N9JY

>>127453028 (OP)
i don't get the gvsb rederence. can someone explain?

>>127453869
He's referencing some editorial in The Nation from '99 about boybands=bad.