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| From | Not Lame <popmusic@notlame.com> |
| Subject | Whoa, Nelly revisted |
| Date | Thu, 06 Mar 2003 16:32:41 -0700 |
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> Maybe if you saw the Grammys, you'd understand. Leaving the pyro behind
> would have been in good taste and would not have created any additional work
> for the show or the artists. More importantly, that move is NOT censorship
> of the music or content. But the pyro combined with the absence of even a
> remark about the tragic incidents in those clubs just illustrated how
> oblivious the Grammy board is to events outside their ceremony.
>
> I'll let Bruce defend his comments about Nelly the artist; my opinion is
> just focused on the ceremony (to me the artist is irrelevant).
Well, I could not have said it better, mate.......what was a drag, as Bill
mentioned, was that the music industry, represented by the Grammys to not
only the nation but many parts of the world, made no mention fo the lives
lost. Of fans. The ones who make the industry move forward. The contempt
of the industry has for its fans, one would argue, was (non)communicated
however unintentionally.
I was saying nothing about censorship, at all. Not sure where that came
from. Did you listen tot he lyrics being sung? Connect them up to the
imagery in the backdrop? It was tasteless. And 'show' inside the song was
taken to the hilt. No one tried(the producers or the artists' managers or
artists themselves), it was clear, to work a bit of toning down in there.
Let alone, God forbid, to work up another number. Sure, it was two days
notice. But these are pros, the dancers, the singer. Supposedly. Did you
hear Nelly, uh, 'sing'? Anyway, trying something different would have
communicated a message of simple decency, empathy inside two tragedies in a
matter of days of each other, tragedies that were very much part of the
music industry. As represented in the press and in the conversations of
music fans all over. This was the Grammys.....the night for the music
industry to shine. And it burned, instead. So censorship? That's a big
leap for political correct adherents touting free speech. Sorry, no.
that's not what happened here. We have the freedom to decent human
beings. Or be callous ones, in such moments. And when yr the later in the
name of laziness or selling yr latest single, I'll take my right to tout
strongly "whoa, Nelly!"
Just a shame, that not one single moment of reflection, empathy or a passing
comment came out of the mouths one single personality that was on the tube
that night. And that is just, well, lame. The industry had the freedom to
ignore the two event s of that past week, that night. And they did it very
well. Its this arrogance and lack of concern for who's buying music, that
leaves much of the industry now shackled beyond belief or historical
precedence with declining sales worldwide.
I repeat: Whoa, Nelly.
Peace,
Bruce @ Not Lame
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