Eminem v. Pynchon

[Robert Pirani]

At 02:03 PM 7/3/01 -0400, David Sarno wrote:
>The (relatively) great thing about Eminem is that of the 20 or so songs per
>album, and average of about 2 make it to MTV, and usually the broadcast
>versions are so massively mute-laden that they ends up being half song, half
>silence. 

I don't understand the perspective where this is a "great thing" -- do you
mean that more than 2 would not be as great because it's admirable to NOT
be on MTV, if so, it seems that it would be dead simple not to have
anything on MTV at all, so this would be a relative failure. Or do you mean
that getting that many on is great and would be even greater to have more ?
If that's the case then the censoring of songs that you mention would seem
not a supporting positive element. So unless the idea is to get a lot of
songs on, but that they be censored is your point I miss the logic here
(which wouldn't be a first for me by any means!)

Regards,
Robert