Mixtape Moment
So I’m listening to one of my mix tapes from 1990, and LL Cool J’s “Around the Way Girl” comes on. One of the lyrics is “Want to eat you like a cookie when I see you walk”—only I had taped it from MTV, and the word “eat” is not there, it’s audio-photoshopped so you can’t tell what the verb is. Twelve years later, 2002, and every 15 minutes something more suggestive than “want to eat you like a cookie” is played on MTV. Is that irony? Progress?
Or maybe it’s just that times change.
(And props to LL Cool J for the line: “she’s sweet as brown sugar with the candied yams”—that’s pretty sweet).
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While situating the new computer room, I find myself compulsively listening to two radio shows online (in RA)—Air Sculpture pt.1 pt.2, and Anthropology pt.1 pt.2—from FZFAN.
Frank Zappa’s insights into the Award Shows, the Music Business, and MTV are as apropos as ever. He talks specifically about MTV as the point where bands began to be signed for how they look, and not for how they sound. I like where he says that MTV was what the music business deserved.
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