From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V4 #104 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Wednesday, April 14 2004 Volume 04 : Number 104 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] quick web-search challenge [glenn mcdonald ] Re: [loud-fans] quick web-search challenge [DOUDIE@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] quick web-search challenge [glenn mcdonald ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 11:20:29 -0400 From: glenn mcdonald Subject: [loud-fans] quick web-search challenge OK, this is defeating me, and seems like the kind of challenge that might amuse one of you. I'm trying to find any kind of substantive info, preferably an official website, for a Mexican singer and TV actress who goes by "Belinda", and whose self-titled album came out today on RCA. Anybody? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 11:35:23 EDT From: DOUDIE@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] quick web-search challenge Funny I was thinking about doing this too. I need to find out more information about a song called Eight Wonder by the Sugababes. I am slammed at work today. I have checked their website to no avail. Any help is great appreciated. steve ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 15:09:10 -0400 From: glenn mcdonald Subject: Re: [loud-fans] quick web-search challenge Thanks for various bits of help on my query! Let it be noted that it's 2004 and you *can* still be a major music celebrity, at least in some parts of the globe, and *not* yet have an official web site... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 18:34:23 -0700 (PDT) From: zoom@muppetlabs.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] quick web-search challenge > Thanks for various bits of help on my query! Let it be noted that it's > 2004 and you *can* still be a major music celebrity, at least in some > parts of the globe, and *not* yet have an official web site... Well, share! How is it you found out about this person, and what's the sound? Who knows, maybe it'll end up doing for my Top Ten 2004 what Boy did for my Top Ten 2003. On a mostly-unrelated note (except for the intriguing obscurity angle), has any anime fan, or for that matter anybody anybody, watched VOICES OF A DISTANT STAR? Reactions? Wondering if the macaroni is still tainted, Andy Abstract: "Writing About Music is Writing First" And that's not a tautology. Rather than examining a musical moment per se, my talk will address this year's ur-topic: how best to convey music's reality in words. It will be a critical assessment of critical prose about popular music. Although I'll certainly offer a general introduction and taxonomize a bit--that is, suggest the broad categories into which such writing falls--I'll focus on specifics. By examining how a number of different writers examine the same topic--perhaps an album, more likely an artist--I hope to sensitize both scholars obliged to kowtow to academic standards of rhetorical politesse and journalists bullied by editors who think readers are as crass as they are to the denotative and connotative potential of dancing about architecture in the English language (the lack of commas in the previous clause is intentional and perhaps a clue). Presumably the topic will be a very familiar one-- Eminem, Exile on Main Street, the irresistible if no longer ubiquitous Madonna, on that order. I'll need to do a fair amount of digging around before finding a set of examples that will serve my illustrative convenience. I expect to include at least two academics (one musicological in orientation, one more literary or cultural) and three or four journalists (at least one self-consciously colorful and one self- consciously workaday). I have not yet decided whether to name names, but would expect that at least some of my writers would be recognizable if I did. Ideally, writing samples will be distributed as a handout. [--abstract of a presentation by Robert Christgau, scheduled for presentation Friday, April 16, between 10:45 and 12:15 Pacific Time, at the Experience Music Project's third annual Pop Conference] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 21:55:09 -0400 From: glenn mcdonald Subject: Re: [loud-fans] quick web-search challenge I ran across Belinda in the New Releases list on the iTunes Music Store and just got curious. Fizzy teen-pop mostly in Spanish, without as much of the r&b-wanna-be posturing as the American versions usually indulge in. Latin America understood Roxette better than the parts of the continent closer to their lattitude. No official site, next to nothing in English, nothing particularly illuminating in Babelfish-mediated Spanish. And it's only a few weeks until the new Corrs album, anyway... glenn ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 22:16:12 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Voices of a Distant Star On Apr 13, 2004, at 8:34 PM, zoom@muppetlabs.com wrote: > On a mostly-unrelated note (except for the intriguing obscurity angle), > has any anime fan, or for that matter anybody anybody, watched VOICES > OF A > DISTANT STAR? Reactions? Me, mostly because I wanted to see what one guy with a Mac could come up with. As expected, it's rather melancholy. And well done. (There are a number of reviews on the Amazon site). Here's something less drastic. My second favorite manga, after Nausicaa. 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