Thank you, Sasha.
Finally, someone called her out:
Ben Greenman/The New Yorker: What's the worst thing on the charts?
Sasha Frere-Jones: I am not terribly happy when I hear Alicia Keys sing.
I'm not sure that I would say Ms. Keys is the worst singer on the charts... hardly. But she is so sickeningly overrated it's insane (the comparisons to Stevie Wonder and/or Prince and/or Sly and/or Joni and/or Carole King, etc. need to stop) and no one seems to call her on it.
Now if we could just get Sasha over his obsession with Gretchen Wilson (sorry Josh) and Usher.
posted by Ben @ 10:26 AM
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Gretchen Wilson sings some totally rockin' party tunes. You just need to let go of the snobbery for a few seconds and enjoy some working class music.
Do you mean white working class music? If I dig on Ciara or Jadakiss or Los Lonely Boys, wouldn't that be considered working class music-- just of the urban and latino variety? Or is country music the only working class music in your anglocentric perspective?
Listening to working class music of color just soothes your middle class white guilt.
Also, you are clearly assuming that country music is made entirely by white Southerners. If you'd just stopped jerkin' it to Jon Brion for a few moments you might have found , a black Montanan and country music legend.
Ah yes, the Charley Pride defense. Isn't that the equivalent of saying "some of my best friends are black"?
Some of my best friends are black. Coupla Asians too.
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