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From: cjbiggin@watmath.UUCP (Colin Biggin)
Newsgroups: net.music,net.women
Subject: Re: Madonna again
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Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 18:10:21 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 23 18:10:21 1985
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>
>Better yet, why don't we all just become teases and manipulative bitches
>and bastards.  And who needs or wants this pretentious "art" stuff!  Who
>wants to pay attention to pretentious assholes like Steinbeck and Van
>Gogh and The Beatles?  Why not just let Madison Avenue write Pepsi
>jingles for all our music, and who wouldn't be satisfied reading
>Harlequin romance novels?  Who wants culture?  We should tell all the
>artists in the world to take a hike.  Let them starve!  Who cares about
>them anyway?
>			 Doug Alan
>

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 ??

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

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.
                                          
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cheers,               
Colin Biggin              cjbiggin!watmath!{allegra|ihnp4|clyde|utzoo}
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario