Bob Dole doesn't need this.

Can you be overrated if everyone thinks you suck?

Run-DMC
As I read the article and the comments, I'm struck by how the sentiments about Nirvana coming out of nowhere and opening up this wholoe new world parallel what I went through with Hiphop. As a white 14 year old in Boulder, CO in 1986, Run-DMC and to an extent the Beastie Boys were like a bolt of lightning out…

@ Biggles WELL. PLAYED.

Public Enemy
Trying to think of an answer to this question, and yeah… from Run-DMC in the mid 80's to NWA in the late 80's (when I was about 13-15) rap still carried the cartoonish, larger than life overtones (even with swearing) that made it more of a kids' genre (well, I guess what we now call "tween"). Not Public…

@Leggo, with a handle like that, you really want an answer to that question?

That's cool as fuck of you to say. In the same vein, I probably came off pretentious. We're probably breaking the Internet with this exchange.

I have a child. This sounds like it could be me! Maybe I am a supervillain! But then if you believe my handle, I'd probably rather just set everything on fire. This may not be a good example for my child. Fuck it- CIBOLAAAA!

I'd guess not much. Direction and writing are probably not so much part of that dynamic as the tech help, you would think. That is really interesting about the movement between houses, though, and it makes sense… especially former Pixar animators getting essentially a free pass.

"3-D sucks. Everyone knows it. Nobody says it. Cause it's pregnant. "

@Squeak yeah, but you're a little bitch.

An even LATER posting, but I have to say that the closing argument scene in Schumacher's "A Time To Kill" brought the water works every time I've seen it. Of course, I had never seen McConaughey in a movie before, and I'm not sure what happened since… but I'll be damned if that isn't some awesome acting. When he…

@Unrepentant, Perfect!!!

Too bad there's no such punctuation as sarcasm marks. Well, I like it, of course, that's why I make it. I'm just saying it's a struggle for any artist whose music doesn't sound like the Same Ten Songs.

Whenever it comes up and I'm talking to someone who hasn't seen Donnie Darko, they get a variation of the same response: You're still here? Why are you still standing here? Go fucking watch Donnie Darko! Go!

As a musician, who does not make music fit for the major label conglomerate/Clear Channel paradigm of what music is allowed to be popular.

As a musician….
I hope against hope that he's right.

It's Duke…. D-U-K-E… the DUKE of Death.

Did this jump out at anyone else?
"This isn't merely bad art; this is art with the power to actually harm society by distorting reality, actively promoting falsehoods, and re-enforcing troublesome social and cultural divisions."

Hm
Perhaps they thought "Life of the Dead" just made TOO little sense.