don't watch it for quality -- watch it to BE INFORMED of the world's FATE
Written: Nov 11 '99
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Pros: the four horsemen of the apocalypse will all be wearing tommy hilfiger
Cons: justice will be handed down by all those people you hated in high school, at the mall
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| maura's Full Review: MTV |
i am convinced -- yes convinced, there is nothing that will stop my mind from believing this -- that the current crop of teen idols is actually a part of a larger campaign, one that will pop as the odometer-of-years flips over, to take over the planet, or at least the more heathen-leaning parts of america.
i mean, come ON! the signs are all there. it was bad enough to have britney spears bumping and grinding in her catholic-schoolgirl outfit; 'n sync singing about god 'spen[ding] a little more time' on their collective beloved (i don't even want to get INTO the possible fan fiction ramifications of that scenario); and carson daly talking about how god showed him that the path to becoming an mtv vj was more righteous than that of the priesthood. little pieces, all in a puzzle, all in a puzzle that was emanating, strangely enough, from that pit of preconstruction, orlando, florida -- all roads were leading back to the mickey mouse club, and a new strain of mondo-capitalist pseudoreligious fervor that spawned all those 'wwjd' licensing opportunities.
mtv is, of course, the medium for this particular theological message; the marketing people were probably sick of being called 'satan's organ' by all those moral majority types back in the heady days of frank zappa butting heads with tipper gore, and so they called in the swaggart-led troops. 'we have an idea,' someone in the bowels of business development probably whispered on the phone, and plans were made, and planes were hopped, and contracts were signed and the territory around 1515 broadway was deemed a neutral zone -- and the plans, oh yes those plans, they were good; place a central florida-bred starlet on the screen once every three weeks or so, have them allude to higher powers and be in the middle of the boy-band crushes on TRL, and then -- as the clock struck midnight, and as the revelers hiccuped their way into the new year -- center stage would be taken. you don't believe me? rate my epinion 'not useful' now, sure. in six weeks you'll be singing a different tune, although it'll probably be in a whiny falsetto and with second-rate harmonies attached.
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Member: maura johnston
Location: philadelphia, pa
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