UPLIFT & UPHEAVAL A-PRAISED
It’s beginning to smell a bit like spring— yet what’s flowing fastest seems to be bile, and what’s flowering tallest, hype. This can be fun; I enjoy seeing ZTT record boss Paul Morley pop up on telly to detail the censorships his video endeavors have encountered...And to claim he’d really like to make vids for some “unkempt 15-year-old in the North who hates the world.”
UPLIFT & UPHEAVAL A-PRAISED
LETTER FROM BRITAIN
by
Cynthia Rose
It’s beginning to smell a bit like spring— yet what’s flowing fastest seems to be bile, and what’s flowering tallest, hype. This can be fun; I enjoy seeing ZTT record boss Paul Morley pop up on telly to detail the censorships his video endeavors have encountered...And to claim he’d really like to make vids for some “unkempt 15-year-old in the North who hates the world.”
But usually, the incessant media circus is neither fun nor pretty. The average pop “pundit” is encouraged to aspire, not inspire; to sell oneself—rather than any artist—for the price of a few punky Dorothy Parkerisms. (Having just polished off Dottie’s biog, I must say this seems karmically dodgy!)