Eminem v. Pynchon

[David Morris]

NSync is more Doug's style.

>From: "David Sarno" <david.sarno at yale.edu>
CLARIFICATION:
> > Millison [[NOT David Morris]]:
> > Eminem is unrelentingly commercial, while Pynchon elaborates his art
> > with little apparent attention to market realities.
>
>The best songs are the most racy and pseudo-offensive.  Here's an example 
>of a lyric that's not only never played on air, they actually [bleeped] it 
>*on the album*:
>
>I take seven [kids] from [Columbine], stand 'em all in line
>Add an AK-47, a revolver, a nine
>A Mack-11 and it oughta solve the problem of mine
>And that's a whole school of bullies shot up all at one time
>--I'm Back, The Marshall Mathers LP
>
>If you look at something like this, claims that he's a market running dog 
>are harder to make.  When you have thruppence-a-dozen acts like NSync and 
>Backstreet boys whose central artistic dogma is to appear on MTV as much as 
>technologically possible, Eminem looks like a rebel who says 'fuck the 
>market and MTV', sometimes in those exact words, 'I'll go tri-platinum 
>without ever getting radio play, and offend as many whiny mid-westerners as 
>possible along the way.'
>
>Might Pynchon at least offer an empathetic nod from the back of the room?
>
>--dave
>
>p.s. I've only read GR once so I could be completely wrong.
>

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