Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!mit-eddie!nessus From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) Newsgroups: net.music,net.women Subject: Re: Madonna again Message-ID: <5099@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 13:53:09 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.5099 Posted: Sat Aug 24 13:53:09 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 26-Aug-85 01:21:26 EDT References: <5020@mit-eddie.UUCP> <246@fear.UUCP> <5076@mit-eddie.UUCP> <16262@watmath.UUCP> Distribution: net.music Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 29 Xref: watmath net.music:8953 net.women:7118 > [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)