Rules Of The Game #5: What's Wrong With Pretty Girls

[koganbot]

Latest column. Comments welcome here.

What's Wrong With Pretty Girls?

EDIT: Here are links to all but three of my other Rules Of The Game columns (LVW's search results for "Rules of the Game"). Links for the other three (which for some reason didn't get "Rules Of The Game" in their titles), are here: #4, #5, and #8.

UPDATE: I've got all the links here now:

http://koganbot.livejournal.com/179531.html

Comments

Re: teenpop adult advisory

[speakerstress.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard those songs, but I don't think they'd impress her. Your "sturm and drung" would be to her pop pablum, I'm afraid. It's like once she found the Velvets she put away her GoGo's records as childish things and never looked back. So she doesn't listen to teenpop, right. Nor do I much, really. She opposes Paris as an example or role-model to young women. (I only wish when we were arguing I would have thought to ask her your question about how ridding the world of Paris would benefit society!) Regarding Paris's music I take this as a stand-in issue, like the age argument, for uncomfortable feelings Jess feels about gender and power, but apparently I misconstrued your idea totally. At any rate, I like teenpop in small doses (I mean, I like "Rush" or "Show Me Love," for example, as much as I like a fave tune by Yo La Tengo or Public Enemy or anybody else). Later.

Re: teenpop adult advisory

[koganbot]

Fans of the Velvet Underground's "Venus In Furs" are directed to Ashlee Simpson's "La La."