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FALL OF THE WEEKND KING
28 Nov
THE ONLY WAY TO GO FROM THE TOP IS DOWN. LIKE A COMEDOWN THAT HAPPENS WAY TOO HARD & WAY TOO FAST, THE BEAUTY SOON LEADS WAY TO MADNESS. AS OVER THE SUMMER AN UNDERGROUND SENSATION BECAME EMBRACED BY THE MAINSTREAM AMERICA.
OVERNIGHT THE WEEKND WENT FROM BEING A DARK AFTER-HOURS EXPERIENCE, TO MUSIC FOR THE SOCCER MOM AT THE GYM, THANKS TO THE 50 SHADES OF GREY SOUNDTRACK, & INEVITABLY THE MASSES WHO AREN’T “BOUT THAT LIFE” BECOME BOUT IT BOUT IT 4 YRS LATE.
AFTER THE KISSLAND RE-EDITION, THE EPIC KING OF THE FALL TEASERS BAITED THE AUDIENCE OF THE ALBUM TO COME. WHEN THE BEAUTY & THE MADNESS FINALLY RELEASED WE LISTENED & RE-LISTENED CLOSELY, BUT FOUND SEVERAL KEY ELEMENTS AMISS.
IMPORTANT TRACKS LEFT ON THE EDITING FLOOR. WATCHING THE AMA AWARDS LAST WEEK IT BECAME CLEAR THERE WAS A PRICE TO PAY TO HIT THE BIG TIME AWARD SCENE & ABEL BE READY TO PLAY.
DURING THE KNOWING ABEL TESFAYE MADE A REFERENCE TO THE LAST KING HAILE SELASSIE & LOST ESOTERIC LINEAGE OF KINGDOM, IT WAS SAD TO SEE THE KING OF THE FALL LEADING THE AMA BLACK MASS BOWING TO THE BEAST. BUT HEY THAT IS HOW IT GOES BRO.
UNAPOLOGETICALLY MALE
6 Nov
THE CURRENT FEMALE/MALE BIRTH RATE IS APPROXIMATELY EQUAL. MOVE INTO THE WORLD OF ART SCHOOL, THE FEMALE/MALE RATIO SKYROCKETS TO 75% FEMALE TO 25% MALE. SO THIS PERPETUATED MYTH THAT FEMALES ARE UNDERREPRESENTED IN THE ART WORLD IS A WILD & FLAGRANT LIE. FLASH FORWARD TO 2015 & SEEING ALL THESE FEMALE ONLY SHOWS JUST EXEMPLIFIES EXCLUSIONARY TACTICS STILL AT PLAY IN THE CONTEMPORARY ART WORLD.
GROWING UP GOING TO LADYFEST & SUPPORTING RIOT GRRRL BANDS, PINK PRESS, ETC. SLEATER-KINNEY WAS A HIGH SCHOOL LIFESAVER, BUT A ONE WAY SUPPORT SYSTEM REALLY ISN’T WORKING ANYMORE.
IN NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE GENDER ISN’T A BINARY CONSTRUCT, YOU HAVE FEMININE FEMALES, MASCULINE FEMALES, MASCULINE MALES, & FEMININE MALES. SO LOOK AT 2015 WE ARE IN TIME WHEN BOTH MALES & FEMALES ARE PERFORMING CROSS GENDER ROLES MORE EFFECTIVELY THAN THEIR NATIVE GENDERS (CROSS DRESSING, GENDER BENDING, DRAG, TRANS, GENDER NON-CONFORMING, INTERSEX, FTM, MTF,?) AGAIN WITH THE LABEL GAME. ZZZZZZZZ.
LETS START CURATING SHOWS BASED ON DYNAMICS & DIVERGENCE OF THOUGHT RATHER THAN PERPETUATING TIRED OUT GENDER DIVISIONS, (THINK MORE WIFE SWAP, AMERICAS NEXT TOP MODEL (POST SEASON 20) LESS THE VIEW, THE TALK, THE REAL, ETC) MEN AND WOMEN ARE ON AN EQUAL PLAYING FIELD RIGHT? OR KEEP DOING THOSE EXCLUSIONARY PROJECTS, BUT CATEGORIZE THEM AS SOMETHING OTHER THAN CONTEMPORARY. JUST LIKE TOO MUCH TESTOSTERONE, TOO MUCH ESTROGEN ISN’T A GOOD THING EITHER.
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