tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post1177034556542750798..comments2024-03-28T09:33:26.444+00:00Comments on No Rock And Roll Fun: Gordon in the morning: Now with lazy national stereotypesSimon Hayes Budgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07084524317888577404noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-41111619146444941582008-01-14T16:11:00.000+00:002008-01-14T16:11:00.000+00:00I was wondering about that myself: "but...Smart, y...I was wondering about that myself: "but...Smart, <I>you're</I> European technically too". So, agreed with Robin Carmody.<BR/><BR/><I>BASSHUNTER – who is No1 with his annoying trance anthem Now You’re Gone – is living up to the Swedish national stereotype of being a bunch of dirty beggars.</I><BR/><BR/>Pejorative stereotyping aside, I'm personally all in favour of Scandinavian sexuality if it's as laidback and open-minded as I keep hearing. It's certainly more appealing than Smart's laughable puritanism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-28127759755325983592008-01-14T15:59:00.000+00:002008-01-14T15:59:00.000+00:00Of course, Smart is as European as Basshunter, how...Of course, Smart is as European as Basshunter, however much he may resents the fact. To use "European" in the sense that excludes the British is to play into The Sun's hand. "Mainland European", if you please.<BR/><BR/>For a British person to hate Europe and Europeans is a form of extended, blown-up self-hatred, and so it is no surprise that people such as Smart seem riddled with a fundamental self-disgust, an utter refusal to accept who they actually are, as opposed to who they wish they are.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, "Now You're Gone" is almost unlistenable compared to the original Swedish-language version "Boten Anna". One begins to wonder what Smart would have to say had *that* gone to number one. But the fact that he feels the need to post this kind of propaganda shows precisely how subversive it still is, how *offended* and *frightened* certain people are when such music invades a cultural territory they normally take such delight in using for their own geopolitical purposes. I have been pointing out for some time that, after the Blair Decade, Eurodance is the only subversive pop music left in the wider British cultural context. Articles like this prove it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-62339924087139688332008-01-14T14:18:00.000+00:002008-01-14T14:18:00.000+00:00Did he really write "t'internet"? Bjork's decadea...Did he really write "t'internet"? Bjork's decadeagomania is infectious.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-84071004309651970312008-01-14T12:32:00.000+00:002008-01-14T12:32:00.000+00:00http://www.myspace.com/goagssmartyfor the links se...http://www.myspace.com/goagssmarty<BR/><BR/>for the links section?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com