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| From | DanAbnrml9@aol.com |
| Subject | Re: Ryan Adams Review; Response |
| Date | Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:00:43 EST |
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In a message dated 1/27/2004 9:02:21 AM Eastern Standard Time,
audities-owner@smoe.org writes:
<< Thanks for sharing this clip...
This just reconfirms what a whiny, paranoid
little wanker Ryan Adams really is! Hilarious! >>
True, though he does touch upon one quite valid point that I've observed in
my time as part of an A&E section at a major newspaper...
The MAJORITY of the rock critics at the major papers *don't* get it. They ARE
often *too old* (At the Boston Globe, the chief pop/rock critic is over 50,
the other main ones all over 40). I don't mean for this to sound ageist (it's
not actually all about age), and obviously it isn't that they can't write, or
even that they aren't quite good at what they're doing. But often at the huge
papers they are almost too comfortable and far along in their careers to really
connect with something as intentionally unwieldly as rock 'n roll. The types
of unexpected rock journalism we got in the '70s (the type memorialized in
"Almost Famous", for example) simply can't be found in larger papers anymore,
because they demand lengthy apprenticeships. The Globe is often called the
"Velvet coffin" for a reason... --Jason
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