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| From | Jocelyn Geboy <smussyolay@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: Nelly, Whoa Nelly, please..... |
| Date | Thu, 6 Mar 2003 09:12:09 -0800 (PST) |
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> A serious scraping the barrel talent. He will be
> gone, gone, gone in two
> years. Which was evident on this, uh, 'performance'.
> That was not singing
> me thinks, me knows....and what was w/ the scratchy
> sound he kept doing
> before singin' most of his lines?
>
> But much worse, there was *no* attempt by the
> Grammys' producers to have
> him, in the case for decency, to tone down the
> pyro-technics. Of course,
> such supplication to common decency would never
> occur to the artist because,
> well, he's an 'artiste'. But the producers have no
> excuse.
>
> And the utterly tasteless lyrics connected to the
> imagery? Come on! This was
> a problem after what happened Wednesday night. At
> least for me, wish it was
> for most who were watching. For something that's
> supposed to represent
> what's 'good' about the music industry, it did
> exactly the opposite. It
> just gave fuel(sic) to any critics who find the
> music output in the retail
> pipelines sickening, degrading and morally bankrupt,
> etc. "I'm burning up,
> the flames are around me".....or something to that
> affect. I was too
> flabberghasted and non-plussed to soak it all in and
> retain a memory synapse
> or two to remember the lyrics but they blew huge
> chunks.
>
> Not trying to overly moralize here(but I guess it's
> hard to avoid some soert
> of basic moral critique as it was a national event
> three days after a
> tragedy inside the music industry), but shame on
> Nelly and shame on the
> grammys for letting that go through *totally*
> unscathed. That stage was
> engulfed in flames....in the context of three days
> prior with 97 people
> losing their lives. Some attempt to not take it over
> the top, like it was,
> would have been appreciated.
>
> This performance could have, fairly easily, been
> modified or dumped if
> anyone had a barometer to gauge simple decency and
> civility. Yet it was
> obvious no one even broached the subject. These
> dancers and its singer are
> professionals. I'm sure they could have modified or
> changed a routine in 2/3
> days time without ruining what they chose to
> accomplish.
>
> Nelly got NOTHING.
>
> Bruce
> @ Not Lame
>
>
~~~i'm way behind in posts. i didn't see the
grammies. i don't know shit about nelly.
however.....i don't really get it when people make
comments along these lines...a tragedy happens, and so
people should modify a routine/song/movie/piece of
'art' they have already prepared probably weeks or
months in advance because it coincidentally happens to
have a connection to said event....or that one could
MAKE a connection to said event. as if they were
*trying* to disrespect that tragedy or the people
involved. that seems a large jump to make.
the biggest example of this most recently was the wave
of stuff dealing with the world trade center... to me,
the reactionary stuff that happened after that
amounted to nothing to one thing: censorship. out and
out censorship. and record labels and movie studios
went along with it. to me, if the bands or producers
were all go, i think that it should have been go. any
time the first amendment starts getting played with,
we are on a slippery slope.
first amendment rules!
jocelyn
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