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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 11:42:33 -0400
From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki)
Subject: Re: M-TH: Eurovison song contest....


I see Rebecca started a thread on the Eurovision music contest stuff. I 
think that it expresses certainly not so much any political message at all. 
Just sort of a blah straight-line of whally wom wa stuff which reflects 
hardly any new thinking or powerful social movements in society. It reminds 
me of the European version of the commersial Andy Warhole and Jerry Rubin 
stuff but run by the music industry..Sort of the "Rock a Bye baby" teen 
industry mass consumption culture. Although it does not draw the youth but 
the over thirty TV dinner crowd who plant their asses on a sofa every 
night..That was when everybody still had a TV and a sofa!

Sort of a post 68 after Chile where the youth decided to get marrtied get a 
job in some state run bureacracy or school or welfare system and become good 
middle class consumers..It reflects something that really does not exist 
anymore..And hardly existed in the third world at all..

In fact Brecht now is beginning to come back on stage here in Sweden..And 
not in the least we have the other end of this stuff called "white power" 
music (Nazi's) which is becoming far to popular amongst the youth..

The left unfortunately seems to be in no way capable of producing anything 
new, YET, but then we see these "scab" songs coming from Australia and one 
quickly sees that all the rhetoric about Eurovision is just a fart in the 
passing wind..

Besides Charlie can tell you. Real and powerful music comes from those who 
have experienced far more then this pop version which is presented for mass 
culture consumption rather then any kind of serious trend..In fact it 
reminds me of the "fordism" debate in the music branch reahing its height as 
a production line wiggle your ass and don't think production line...

And as far as the male turned female debate raging in Israel where the 
orthodox jews are acting like the orthodox mullahs one would have to side 
with even this wom wom music. But strictly from and independent position of 
defending bourgeois media orcre mass consumption wiggle your ass music 
against the medievil version of Hallelujah coming from these religous 
fanatics and which would take the youth back to the fucking stone age!

When we get our own "Kropotkin" and the class struggle begins to heat up 
more and more it will draw to it some of the best of musical and theatrical 
talent. And not scumbags like the super pop star (Elton John) in England who 
used the demise of the jet setting Diana and are playboy Arab friend by 
driving into a brickwall at about 180 kilometers and hour...

Both art and music in a sense will help us take the temperature of the 
International class struggle..And new Octobers will create its music, its 
art and its theater..
And it will counter all the hollywood and music industry mass produced stuff..
In fact we want everybody dancing in the streets but to our tunes and human 
progress..

And it will be countered posed to the bourgeois music industry and to the 
millions and how and who they wiggle their asses and whistle for and in the 
interests of..

In thinking about this thread I started humming the song that with the 
following words..

I don't care if it rains or freezes,
Long as I got my plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashbord of my car

and 

All you can buy me is a Mercedes Benz

which Janice Joplin sang and then there was Hendrix..Coletrain

For Dave and the Aussies I also have a CD Rom by Peter Hicks and The Born 
Again Pagans..Heard they were popular a few years back till they split up. 
They sent me the CD with a message of solidarity around the Vietnam 
stuff..Probably one of the last musical expression of the May 68 new left 
crowd..At least the Australian version..But they have a nice song called 
"Phillipino Women" which beats the hell out of all the Eurovision music 
contest stuff.

So they get my vote...

Warm regards
Bob Malecki
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