Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!think!snorkelwacker!mit-eddie!GAFFA.MIT.EDU!jsd@GAFFA.MIT.EDU From: jsd@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (Jon Drukman) Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Re: Love And Anger Message-ID: <9001031655.AA11000@GAFFA.MIT.EDU> Date: 3 Jan 90 16:55:17 GMT References: <8912270931.AA03247@world.std.com> Sender: daemon@eddie.mit.edu (Mr Background) Reply-To: gaffa!jsd (Jon Drukman) Organization: The Flip Side Of Now Lines: 32 Approved: nessus@eddie.mit.edu In article <|-G2W_@rpi.edu> kudla@PAWL.RPI.EDU (Robert J. Kudla) writes: >One thing though. > >>There are some damn good dancers in the video market today. Of >>course, they are all uniformly terrible >>singers/songwriters/producers. Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul and >>Madonna all spring (repulsively) to mind. > ^^^^^^^ > >Now, the other two are more or less horrible and even Madonna's no >Kate when it comes to songwriting department, but I think she deserves >a bit better of an adjective than "repulsive". I even sort of like her >last album. Gee, a better adjective than "repulsive" huh? How about "hellspawn"? How about "sludgy"? How about "unbelievably appalling"? I dunno, I guess in terms of obnoxiousness there are far more stunning examples of No Redeeming Social Value, but Madonna is just covered in slime... Everything she touches turns to shit. >I haven't the foggiest idea, however, where you got the notion that >she can dance. She can writhe much as I do when I wake up feeling >particularly uninspired to face the world, and do it on many surfaces >such as concrete or astroturf, but she can't *dance*. Well, then she's a good twitcher or writher. I find it eye pleasing. Even more so than the Kate Hammersmith Odeon show... (Ooh, I can hear the flame guns warming up already...) +---------------------- Is there any ESCAPE from NOISE? ----------------------+ | | |\ | jsd@gaffa.mit.edu | "Suck on this, | | \|on |/rukman | jsd@umass.bitnet | planet of noise bimbo!" | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+