Eminem v. Pynchon

[woody tobias jr.]

Being exiled from MTV does not necessarily guarantee outsider status for 
Eminem. He's like pornography in many ways: sure, he doesn't get much 
mainstream airplay but everyone knows about him and it's very easy to locate 
his product; we couldn't safely call his work 'entertainment' if it were any 
other way. But maybe the boundaries we're using here are somewhat outdated. 
After all, the world's largest pornography distributor is General Motors.

From: Robert Pirani <rpirani at best.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Subject: Re: Eminem v. Pynchon
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 22:48:08 -0700

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

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