What heart?

That she wants people to pay for her musings is just another of the numerous contradictions which surround her…How long before The Quitta from Wasilla lives up to that moniker and ditches the interwebs?

I thought her big break was from Boyz n the Hood…

On-point. Great insight. Thanks for sharing.

"Gen X were the ones who started Napster."
"…a fucking TON of Gen Xers were downloading music back in the day."

Roughly 1961-1975, from what I gather. After all, it's kind of a stretch to consider folks to be of the same generation if there's a 20 year age difference.

WTF?!

Agreed. Although there is a school of thought which believes new wave was the mainstream co-opting punk. Your thoughts?

Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning were born in '79 and '80, respectively: not Gen-Xers. Chronologically or otherwise.

Just a joke, light snark. No ulterior motive or agenda. Hoping to elicit a smirk from you, nothing more. Obviously I failed.

"Close to the Edge" is the national anthem of prog.

That was my point: I was refuting Barsanti's implication that they shunned fame. My bad if I wasn't clear on that.

I was recently having a convo about Big Star with a buddy in his mid-20s who worships them. (Btw, the kid shoulda been a Gen-Xer; he's one in every way except for chronological age and even openly regrets being born at last 2 decades too late.) When I told him that whole indie, don't-wanna-be-famous mentality was of…

Smartass.

Emily Gould is that Gawker chick Jimmy Kimmel whacked a couple of years ago on the Larry King show?! Why would ANYONE read ANYTHING this woman has to say??!!

I get the impression McInerney, Janowitz, and Easton Ellis are Shakespearean in comparison.

They also want their music for free and are under the impression musicians are all rich rock stars who should play for their supper; championed some of the worst music I've heard in my lifetime; the rise of Pitchfork, blog bands, the Brooklyn hipsterati, Girls…all on their watch. (And let's not get into the chronic…

I know you said "between Millennials and Generation X" but please don't lump people born in the '80s onto the Gen-X pile. Thanks.

The Ramones might be the best adult music you can play for little kids and enjoyed by both parties. An old friend told me she used to babysit her now-grown nephews with The Ramones as the soundtrack. A fun time was had by all.

"The band…was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2002, finally achieving the mainstream recognition that it had never really tried to get in the first place."