Rules Of The Game #29: I start a fight because I need to feel something

[koganbot]

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The Rules Of The Game #29: I start a fight because I need to feel something

Latest column. I talk about year-end polls, and Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood and Amy Winehouse, and, of course, Taylor Swift again, this time singing "Umbrella":

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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

And here are "Jesus Take The Wheel" and "Kerosene", if you haven't heard them.

Comments

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

I made a comment the other day that was related to your "Night Doesn't Work" column, that a certain kinda critic may feel (or may be publicly expressing concerns about) what amounts to a lack of a voice. The qualifier here is that personally I've been finding a voice in the past few years, and even if there's a perception of a conversation dying in some quarters, I actually feel like I've just started to find a conversation I'm interested in having while feeling pretty good about having it.

One thing I noticed about the nu-Voice comments (particularly this year) was just how weak they were, how few people were really willing to call bullshit or give overwrought praise or make some bizarre sociopolitical inference from the Soulja Boy dance. They were strikingly timid.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Also, Stephen Deusner's a good guy -- I've corresponded with him a bit; he's basically Pitchfork's country/alt.country guy (not sure if he votes in Nashville Scene) + bread 'n' butter reviewer. Not sure what he's been up to lately, though.

Sigh

[koganbot]

I just noticed that a sentence I'd written correctly

none of the country critics I hobnob with - all of whom voted for the album or at least one Miranda Lambert song - were buying Geoff's line either

was changed by the LVW so as to be incorrect:

none of the country critics I hobnob with - all of whom voted for the album or at least one Miranda Lambert song - weren't buying Geoff’s line either