On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:29:14PM -0500, Brent Busby wrote: > On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, Dave Phillips wrote: > >Btw, there's a strong argument that the "teen craze" sort of > >pabulum started with Disney and his ilk. Pop stars such as Annette > >Funicello and other Mouseketeers were the Britneys of the day, and > >manufactured stars such as Fabian soon took over the charts after > >the harder rock music suffered from the effects of Buddy Holly's > >death. Disney and Colonel Tom Parker determined the tastes of > >whole generations of listeners. They substituted saleability for > >creativity, and the rest is what's known as pop history. > > Yeah, that's happening again, Disney again. Miley Cyrus, Hannah > Montana, the Jonas Brothers, etc. Moral of the story: Mickey Mouse > makes a very poor DJ.... Apropos of which, South Park Season 13, Episode 1, "The Ring" does a good job of skewering both Mickey and the Jonas Brothers, in the great tradition of Dan O'Neill's Odd Bodkins strip. -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
