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From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan)
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Subject: Re: Madonna again
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Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 13:53:09 EDT
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> [From Colin Biggin  cjbiggin@watmath.UUCP):]

> Here you go again..  Look at it this way Doug, if there were no *bad*
> music in the world (or for that matter *bad* anything), what would we
> have to compare the good things with ??

Maybe then one wouldn't feel compelled to compare, and we could all just
enjoy?

> So Madonna is a "manipulative bitch", who cares... In a couple of
> years she'll be forgotten probably.

After all these impressionable young teenagers will have already been
brainwashed into being manipulative teases!  And a bunch more artists
will have been told by record companies "Your music is no good, because
it's not enough like Madonna's"!

> Also, while on the subject of quality vs trash, I seem to remember an
> old English teacher telling me that William Shakespeare had to compete
> with rat races for patrons.  So it just goes to show that things
> haven't changed much and probably will not change in the future.
                                          
Probably not, but that doesn't mean one should give up the fight.

			"For the words of the profits
			 Are written on the studio wall"

			 Doug Alan
			  nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA)