UPDATE: POP SINGERS AND MATRIMONY. So David Brooksthinks Avril Lavigne, 22, and Pink, 28, promote an ideology hostile to marriage before the age of 30?
My letter which I did not write to the NYT about that column emphasized that in Pink's song, the guy grabbed her. It was a song about not asking to be raped first and foremost. It was also an answer record to the strip-club anthems regularly appearing on the radio. AND, for both Pink's and Lavigne's songs, the high chart positions were a function of Internet sales--it took radio some time to catch up. Internet sales did not exist 10 or 30 years ago.
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COMMENTS (5)
see, here's your big mistake: you used the word "thinks" to describe what goes on in the brooks brain.
Posted by: howard | July 10, 2007 3:54 PM
Who cares what David Brooks thinks (besides the stupid, willfully ignorant, and outright disingenuous, I mean)?
Posted by: ed | July 10, 2007 3:55 PM
Maybe he's upset because they were both "Outdoor non-denominational services."
He just didn't spell that out because of course everyone knows that already you know.
Posted by: IMU | July 10, 2007 3:58 PM
David Brooks is a dumbass.
I'd go into more detail, but anyone who doesn't agree with that, wouldn't recognize the evidence, so I'm not going to bother.
Posted by: Chris | July 10, 2007 8:33 PM
My letter which I did not write to the NYT about that column emphasized that in Pink's song, the guy grabbed her. It was a song about not asking to be raped first and foremost. It was also an answer record to the strip-club anthems regularly appearing on the radio. AND, for both Pink's and Lavigne's songs, the high chart positions were a function of Internet sales--it took radio some time to catch up. Internet sales did not exist 10 or 30 years ago.
Posted by: 4jkb4ia | July 15, 2007 12:51 PM