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Re: new math
In a message dated 1/8/2002 2:22:45 AM Eastern Standard Time, soberman_69 at hotmail_com writes:
Guys, I'm not a cynic. I'd never make the argument that popularity=
automatic sellout. However, U2 did go through a period of self-agrandizing.
They were singing about nothing. They'd folded to the demands of their
critics, reducing themselves to "sluts without a mission". They were
embracing all that was ugly and crass about popular culture. If it was
intended as a clever satire, it must have backfired, as evidenced when the
diminishing returns kicked in.
Please don't get me wrong. I didn't mean to lable you a cynic per se; all I meant were that there are scores of cynics whose knee-jerk reaction to an artists (sometimes sudden) financial success means they "sold out." I've seen it on this list, and though I can't recall any examples off the top of my head, I'm definitely not referring to you in this case. I'm sorry if that's how you interpreted it, because I absolutely didn't mean it that way. And I don't presume to speak for Kelvin, but I'm sure he didn't mean it that way, either. Again, I'm sorry for the misunderstanding!
Chris
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