Wednesday, March 12, 2003

WHICH MAKES YO LA TENGO WHAT -- RIDER? Sure, this online chat with WaPo music critic David Segal is darn entertaining, what with its nice share of sniping at the Village Voice's Robert Christgau ("I’ve never enjoyed rock criticism as an Uncle Miltie-style whose-is-bigger contest"), but the real reason to review the chat is to uncover one of the coolest analogies I've ever seen a cultural critic employ.

In writing about a recent Bon Jovi concert, Segal explains:
The rap on the New Jersey-born Jon Bon Jovi is that he's a lower-brow, pop-metal version of Bruce Springsteen -- Rutgers to the Boss's Princeton.

Like, whoa.

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