Rules Of The Game #14: The Death Of The Cool

[koganbot]

Latest column. Britney, Bowie, and the unavailability of cool.

The Rules Of The Game #14: The Death Of The Cool

Key sentence: "But where coolness - or any knowledge - stumbles is when it becomes the attribute of a particular class."

So what's been your experience with "cool"? Is there such a thing? What would it be now?

Links to previous columns. (And they've finally added the paragraph breaks to last week's column. Comments didn't make it through, however. LVW got the italics too, but missed them this week, and I'm not going to press the matter.) UPDATE: That link "to previous columns" no longer works, but I've got the whole set here now:

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

(Also, here's a link to that Michael Ventura article I refer to, "Hear That Long Snake Moan," about the African sources of cool, and the New Orleans source of everything. Ventura cannot be accused of understating his case.)

Comments

[koganbot]

Also think Lily's record sales have something to do with her having gobs of talent: sparkle in her singing and beauty in the tunes.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Well there is that, too. However Cassie also has sparkle & beauty, but has sold approx 12 records over here because she hasn't been shouting about it all over town to anyone who'll listen, or made the pages of gossip columns with (clearly fabricated yet still entertaining) stories about spats with Peaches Geldof that of course have 0 to do with her music.

[koganbot]

Yeah, I have sparkle and beauty too, and how's my book doing in the UK? "Only 1 left in stock - order soon." Harrumph.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Clearly you need to start some beef in a trendy London nightspot whilst wearing a vintage dress :)