It will all shake out eventually

Jul 30, 2012 21:49





I keep getting dumber as I age.

I though I had gotten over ooky feelings of cultural appropriation with Madonna back in the late eighties, but the whole soul revival thing is still bugging me, mostly because the cool white kids are doing so well at it.

Sharon Jones is a good ride-along for me, but now the Aussies are following the Brits into the fray, and I’m getting drawn in now by this band from Melbourne that nobody seems to want to know about, even as the band is loading up with awesome.

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Identities are getting all stirred up again, which makes so much of America seem like backwater even more than when people thought that Janis Joplin had to be black.

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