Beastie Boys

[kellinator]

Who's heard the new Beastie Boys song (available at http://www.beastieboys.com/)? I've heard it once and I want to hear it again (not that I expect it to get much airplay, though I'd love to be wrong).

Now there's an amazing story. To start out with music that many have called misogynist and end up speaking out on everything from Free Tibet to making concerts safe for women, and now taking a position that could potentially be very unpopular -- I am totally impressed with them, and have been for some time.

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[kellinator.livejournal.com]

That's it exactly. And I think it applies to just about everything these days -- give us the quick sell, why bother with something that has to mature, we'll get fired while we're waiting on it! To use my favorite example, we Homicide fans always bitch that Homicide 1). never got any network support 2). was cancelled prematurely, but despite being under the threat of cancellation for its entire run, it made it through seven years and over 130 episodes. Only ten years later (it debuted in '93), that couldn't happen anymore -- today's atmosphere doesn't give anything not instantly marketable a chance, no matter how critically acclaimed it is.

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

And the sad(dest) thing about that is that it's totally unnecessary. Take for example Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movies. They don't resemble the usual TV movies -- tawdry tales of scantily-clad women in jeopardy (why Lifetime thinks I as a woman want to watch other women being stalked and raped for entertainment I'll never understand) -- in any way; they're high-quality, with excellent acting and writing, and are frequently based on acclaimed novels. Those movies often get huge ratings. Hell, look at the way teen girls are going nuts over Avril Lavigne. I'm not saying she's a musical genius or anything, but she plays her own instruments, writes her own songs, and portrays herself as something more than a sex bomb. After being force-fed Britney and Christina for years, they're going nuts over something real. And think of how many derivative things have failed -- gross-out comedies, all those ripoffs of Friends a few years ago. The American public is smarter than the media realizes; they don't want to give us the credit.

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[kellinator.livejournal.com]

*snort* *snort*

I think you just won. Joe Millionaire, anybody?

[metaphorge.livejournal.com]

I totally dig it, though I am admittedly a big Beastie-head.

[maida-mac.livejournal.com]

I enjoy it a lot, though Gabriel looked at me funny when I started playing it. I linked to it in my journal yesterday.

[kimberly-a.livejournal.com]

Funny! I just got an email yesterday from a friend, pointing this out to me. He reminded me that I used to always crack up over one of their earlier lyrics: "I don't mean to boast, but I'm intercontinental and I eat french toast."

Hmmmm ... I suppose they'll have to re-dub that as "freedom toast" in some parts of the country.