I have always admired and respected Jann Wenner, and still do. Yes, I know what he said in the New York Times about Black and female musicians, and that a SPIN Founder Bob Guccione Jr. pens an editorial about the meaning of free speech and what it takes to fight for it.
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Of course Jann is factually wrong to declare there aren’t women or Black musicians who could be as expressive about it as, say, Springsteen, Pete Townshend, Dylan, or, God help us, Bono, who probably, secretly, maybe not so secretly, thinks that rock only really started mattering with him, and will cease to matter when he stops.
But there’s no sense of irony here! Irony, and — Satan, keep your distance! — humor are nowhere to be found. There is only the incessant, monotonous drumbeat of rain falling on a tin roof, the sound of self-prescribed righteousness, an empty, fraudulent, masturbatory sanctimoniousness. Look at the recent backlash against pop singer Róisín Murphy, who is about as threatening a figure as the Pillsbury doughboy. She got involved in a trail of comments on Facebook, on her own personal page, mind you, and questioned — one would think quite sanely — the growing preponderance of “puberty blockers,” which are medications that.
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