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| From | John Micek <jlmicek@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: Brian Wilson tribute |
| Date | Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:38:35 -0500 |
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>Trust me, I'd hate Milkshake Jones with equal intensity if they
were everywhere I turned my head.
Oy ... we should have such problems. :) It would at least mean I
wasn't sweating next week's daycare payment and grocery bills.
Still, your point is well-taken. But aren't we around a decade or so
past the sell-by date on Hootie's ubiquity? True, c. 1994-5, you
couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting them and it did get a
little tedious after a while. Hell, I was shocked to find out that
they still had a major-label deal. I'd assumed the suits at Atlantic
had dropped them as soon as VH1 stopped playing their videos.
I guess I'm just surprised that such disdain persists well after
their 15.5 minutes had passed them by. Then again, it took me ages
before I could listen to R.E.M's "Green" LP again because of the
trauma induced by my freshman year neighbors who played it into the
ground in 1988-89.
You're equally dead-on when you say we're setting the bar lower and
lower for "stardom," these days. All you need do is turn on TV for
evidence of that. No one has satisfactorily explained to me why Kim
Kardashian is famous, nor why she has a reality TV show.
On the other hand, Hootie write inoffensive pop tunes and play on
their own records and everything. It's a world apart. Hootie were
lucky enough to capture lightning in a bottle for a couple of minutes
there. Good on 'em, I say.
john micek
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