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Barney Hosleyns In Taylor's universe, music *#tlzqm12 papers become merely another adjunct or extension of promotion. If that really were the case, however, why would people read about music at all? Surely not just to discover what aftershave Simon Le Bon is wearing? As far as good pop writers and readers are concerned, there are people working in music who are doing interesting things, making significant meaning of it. They are using and, if necessary question- ing it: making a meta-music, a music about music. This is what Simon Frith called sky blue air jordans the 'punk vanguard', a line which could be stretched to include musics as different as the Gang of Four's, the Fall's, the Raincoats', and Einsturzende Neubauten's. To those who write about this music, about 'difficult' groups, about jazz, music is quite as 'important' as it is important for Duran Duran to receive the royalties for Rio. Bohn's Germans and Cook's jazz avant-ists are people who simply are not compet- ing in Taylor's universe of pure consumption. They are not writing'hits'. pink jordan 23 fusions What is really insidious about the position of people like Taylor is its implicit anti-pluralism. Taylor himself has already polarized his one-dimensional universe between Wham! (presumably as honest market-force 'pop') and the Redskins (presumably as 'rock' becomes self-important again). And this is surely as narrow as the reverse view, which would, in Levi-Straussian terms, see the Redskins as 'raw', untreated, a voice of truth, and Wham! as'cooked', synthetic, false. (Before one even begins to dissect these views, jordan shoes 9 both 'Young Guns' and 'Lean On Me' were great records.) The point is that NME no more needs to be seen backing a specific 'party' than whosale jordan shoes Smasb Hits does. It is a place for the discus- sion of the myriad details and intersections that comprise a state (always dynamic) of subculture. It is in turn 'telling' that Taylor quotes the bemusement of America's music press at the 'power' of our rags, when it was Jann Wenner, who at the inception of Rolling Stone in 1968 described it as 'sort of a magazine and sort of a newspaper' which would be 'not just

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The trap which Taylor *#tlzqm11 so easily falls into is in setting up hierarchy of 'importance', the gist of his reasoning being a wise than-hindsight fear that pop music isn't, after all, that important. This would be fair if it meant that pop music had, after ai ugg discount coupon minibootaustralia turned out to be unimportant for Steven Taylor; as a gener statement it smacks of a stylistic tyranny. Nothing in this life any more 'important' than anything else: Wittgenstein is no mo 'important' than Paul Young, for the Pbilosopbical Investigatio, Barney Hoskyns do not change the basic facts of life any more than No Parlez does. What culture is about is how we use the matter we are given, what choices we make, and how we relate people, ideas and feelings to each other; in other words, how we communicate, how we mini ugg boots interpret. A music paper is simply another way of opening up these choices and looking at them. For Taylor, though, the new pop fan neither wants, nor indeed needs, any of this. All s/he needs is a consumer guide to the relevant desirables - a style kit. We may think this an adequate provision for 13-year-olds, but that begs the whole issue of Teenage itself. Should we somehow grow out of pop music, face up to the more 'important' things in life? But what does that mean? Does it mean pop music is an metallic ugg boots australia immature way of living, that when you 'consume' pop you have no time or room for anything else? Surely not: surely pop music is simply a part of life. The concept of 'importance' is just snobbish, and one that The Face, the magazine Taylor used to edit, continues to disseminate through the culture of youth: there is in The Face the constant sense that, somewhere out there, people are doing more stylish, more interesting, more cimportant' things than you are. Suck on these sticks, hicks! Taylor slyly develops the notion of what is 'important' by turning NM E's own legend against itself. The fact that writers like Tony Parsons, Danny Baker and Paul Morley have 'moved on', become brighter stars in more powerful roles, is taken to mean that they have 1eft behind the unimportance and triviality of purple boots Australia pop writing, even though they are the very people who turned it into an art. So that Taylor's argument becomes at once that (a) the pop press no longer requires 'personality' writers, but that (b) pop press sales have fallen precisely because there are no more 'individually notorious' writers.

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