The ever-interesting Lara St. John on Wagner and Madison Avenue’s idea of what constitutes “classical” music. Okay, I admit I ranted to her about it, but i’m grateful to her for the research and the writing. C’mon Rick Rubin, you can do better than that!
To all those who took the time to comment on my little Game of Thrones essays this spring, I thank you. I regret to have had to stop making them public after the first few dozen, since some commenters who disagreed with me also seemed to have a serious problem with the fact that I am female – which is, of course, irrelevant to the matter. In the spirit of parity, I chose to stop publishing them all – even the non-misogynistic intelligent ones. But moving on…..
SONOS
Virtually parallel to the HBO debacle is one from the wireless HiFi company Sonos. They decided to buy a $4 million Superbowl commercial in 2014, representing in color how your house can have all different sorts of music wafting through it. They hired the hirsute hip-hop honcho Rick Rubin to create a 30-second spot featuring classical (in blue) hip-hop (red) and…
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Roedeo Productions 