At 12:33 PM 1/10/2002 -0600, you wrote:
quoted 14 lines In the latest issue of Grooves Magazine, there's an interview with Atari>In the latest issue of Grooves Magazine, there's an interview with Atari
>Teenage Riot member Nic Endo, where she makes the statement:
>"Music has to be a physical or emotional experience and not people having
>a drink, looking at a white middle-class nerd with a Mac laptop."
>
>It'd be interesting to see how people respond to this...
>
>My opinion: In the interview, she claims to not label people, but that's
>clearly what she's doing here with the term "nerd." Also, in order to
>afford time to use or purchase the machines she uses for her albums, it's
>quite obvious that she's at least middle-class or above. So, obviously
>her credibility is not very high, nor does she seem to follow her ideals
>of not labelling people. Obvious hypocrisy, much like her fellow Atari
>Teenage Riot members. I won't get into the ideological errors of that group...
exactly. you're taking the statement of a member of Atari Teenage Riot to
heart? I don't think anyone will take her seriously, and those that do are
already part of the "it's trendy to dis laptops and electronic music
without words!" bandwagon.
Besides, who looks at people when they're listening to music? I listen to
music at home. She's obviously talking about a live experience, which, in
Atari Teenage Riot terms, isn't anything to write home about. "hey look,
they're screaming again! woo!"
on a related note, I'd like to see how many people honestly think that
people who perform with laptops create music using just that laptop. I
wonder if they're the same people who think Britney Spears plays all her
own instruments.
derek
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