On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:47:19 -0800 skip Heller wrote:
If you've heard aetano Veloso's FINA ESTAMPA, you see how there's still room for interpretive genius. You look at Christina or Britney, you start to think about how the Monkees weren't such a bad deal.
And don't you think that people like us will say exactly the same of Britney/Christina in twenty years? If you consider TV and entertainment, we can be sure that the "worse" is never reached; there is always room for improvement... That means that looking back at the past, with the help of nostalgia, kitsh, renewed interest, relecture of history, etc, and what we perceive as the sad state of current incarnations of entertainment, it is almost impossible to find a bad old artist :-). Everything from the past can be defended from one angle or another. On the other side the debate rages on current artists, due to total lack of perspective and confusion about the target of the product. Patrice (guilty of dismissing current artists).