In case you haven't figured it out yet, my favorite topic is popular culture. And music history. I love all music, I'd rather have music I don't like then none at all. I'd even learn to love rap. So the main reason I pay any attention at all to new pop culture is because it all goes back to the geriatric music I listen to. If you've taken a pop culture music history class, you've learned about the origins of music and how whites took black music and hence we have rock and roll. Well I can tell you exactly what happened after that, Elvis inspired the Beatles and Bob Dylan, British Invasion, glam rock, heavy bands, punk rock, disco. Disco died but was reincarnated into contemporary dance music aka electronica. That's how we get to Lady Gaga, which is like the Gloria Gaynor of the "new disco." I like to think of her as a "Bowie-Madonna" as she embraces the theatrical music videos like Bowie and Madonna, has the crazy outfits like both, and h...
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