POP CULTURE CONFESSION
Now that I'm far from campus and the Nirvana years I can speak my mind. When I first saw Kurt Kobain I had no idea what sex he was. I saw the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" video and was totally confused. I really thought it was a joke band.
Worse.... Kobain reminded of Hollywood lunatic Jackie Rogers Junior, (played by Martin Short on SCTV).
Its not entirely out of line. I once confused the lead singer of Sugar Smack to be an ugly woman. This quasi-Led Zeppelin band featured a long haired girly man in skin tight pink leather pants. It turned out to be a really gangly guy with bright pink hair. He was leaping around so fast on stage that I couldn't tell what he was.... a male or a female. Now before I get off the track......
Jackie Rogers Junior is the worlds first albino superstar. This live track from a video tape release, "Martin Short Goes to Hollywood" is a bit silly but no sillier than some of the campy Vegas/Hollywood stars we've endured over the years.
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Ted Cantu is the creator of http://www.beautyloungestore.com he contributes to several blogs and podcasts such as…..http://911copywriters.podomatic.com. He served as a top rated art director for Interactive Web Marketing groups in Chicago and New York City.
THE SUNDAYS
These guys really stuck out like a sore thumb in the 90's. You would have to been tone deaf to miss them. MTV was stuck. They were showing YO MTV RAPS, ( a format which would later totally dominate the entire network ). MTV was also showing a lot of hair bands and Manchester bands were merging onto the college scene.
The Sundays dazzled the charts with their thought provoking songs. They were a blossoming flower in this torid landscape -- the one glimmering hint of a humanistic sound. But it would prove to be a very short flash of light.
The airwaves were about to be trampled over by a new force of pop sound. Nirvana. And its presence would kill out all creativity for the next ten years. Commercial radio would give birth to its offspring. Tuneless, angst ridden gristle unfit for any century. BOring, dull and full of hatred.
The Sundays touched human emotion. They were not afraid of it. This is why they stuck out of the crowd. They radiated pure human energy.
Here is what others have said:
"It is not often that a video portrays the feel and texture of a song as well as this one does. When viewing it you can sense the warmth and sincerity of the music. A work like this was all too rare in the noisy, headache, techno decade that was the '90s. "
"Harriet Wheeler's voice should be kept in a museum in London, it's a national treasure. "
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cantu fascube 2006
POP CULTURE CONFESSION
