Selective Hearing

You know when you're dancing at a club or at a party and suddenly the DJ puts on this one song and every goes absolutely nuts and the energy just rises, and then you realize its the most homophobic piece of crap playing on the radio this month, but you keep on dancing anyway because the beat and the energy and the sound around you feels soooo good?  SHAME ON YOU!

... And the unsettling part is, writing those three words, I couldn't make up my mind whether I wanted it to be a totally serious condemnation or a partially a joke.  It should be shame on us, it should be we go run tell the DJ to turn that crap off as quick as we are to harass them when we feel their playlist needs some musical direction, but instead we're just used to ignoring the lyrics for the sake of the party.

Harold Aarons of the Amherst College class of 2010 recently had published an article on this subject over at XHIBITP.  Go check it out.  Voici le link:

My Guilty Pop Pleasure: Dancehall Music

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