Get real, 'Juno': You're a phony (POP MUSIC CRITIC HAS FIT OVER "PREGNANCY MOVIE")

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | January 13, 2008 | JIM DeROGATIS Pop Music Critic

[Tennessee Nana]

So if you wanna burn yourself remember that I love you

And if you wanna cut yourself remember that I love you

And if you wanna kill yourself remember that I love you

Call me up before you’re dead, we can make some plans instead

Send me an IM, I’ll be your friend.
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A Carole King wannabe ???????????????

[Emmett McCarthy]

You’ve got that exactly right. People like this - as well as the “suits” in the music business - are almost all reflexively liberal and hate anything that deviates from that worldview. Of course, they’ve been shown to be completely wrong about what the “market” wants time and time again. They’re basically “followers” in every sense - artistically, politically, personally.

[jpsb]

LOL, well I did kinda like it, but a little goes a long way, I would not want to listen to a steady diet of that!

[flowerplough]

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, what did you think of the play?

[sharkhawk]

Jim DeRogatis must have been the basis for Adam Sandlers Rock Critic on the old SNL Weekend update skits.

[Tax-chick]

I’ve never heard of the musical groups he mentions, so my teenagers don’t listen to them. (I would know - they’re always leaving their CD’s in my player in the kitchen.)

I’m sure the writer realizes that all teenagers don’t listen to the same music, so he must be upset about the rest of the film. Too bad.

[grey_whiskers]

What do your kids listen to?

Inquiring FReepers with their own teens want to know...

Cheers!

[SamAdams76]

But...I thought liberalism was supposed to be about "tolerance for others."

So why is it that most intolerant people that I know happen to be liberals?

[Tax-chick]

Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Kansas, TobyMac, Demon Hunter, Salvador, Confederate Railroad. Stuff with endless, loud electric guitar noodles and usually incomprehensible lyrics.

When I’m driving, they have to listen to bluegrass :-).

[Swiss]

I have a feeling this so called critic raved over crap like “Reality Bites”. I had to suffer in the 90’s through Ethan Hawke and the grunge angst slacker movies which none of the members of Generation X I knew related to.

[grey_whiskers]

Toby Mac isn't bad, tho' I preferred his stuff with DCTalk.

Kerry Livgren of Kansas converted to Christianity and did a couple of solo albums.

And Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song isn't bad, hint hint. ;-)

Cheers!

[Tax-chick]

I liked Kansas back when they were live, in the 70’s and 80’s. Original stuff, for its time, and sort of “religious-y”. Anoreth and I discuss the religious content. “Is this about the death of Pope Pius X?” “No, I think it’s about General Garibaldi.”

She says DCTalk is better than TobyMac as a solo. I like Barlow Girl, but the teens consider them inadequate in the Electric Guitar Noodling category. (”When will this song be over, already?”)

I like the Led Zeppelin Viking shtik. Takes me back to my teens :-).

[Mrs. Don-o]

bttt

[Grizzled Bear]

I’m not a music critic but I know what I like.

That song needs more Cow Bell.

[Skywalk]

Aye, and here’s the real proof:

“We can debate whether the message of “Juno” is anti-abortion and therefore anti-woman”

So anything that is anti-abortion is automatically anti-woman.

That’s quite an amazing idea, there. One would think valuing the lives of unborn children who could turn out to BE WOMEN might be pro-woman, in a way.

Or Maybe he’s just mad his daughter didn’t get an abortion?

[the_devils_advocate_666]

It was a brilliant film.

My wife took me to this movie over the weekend and I was expecting some sort of chick-flick. I was really surprised how much I enjoyed the movie, best I've seen in a while. My only question at the end was "what was the moral of the story?" Not that there has to be one...

[pray4liberty]

So what if he's talked to a million teenagers. He will never be a pregnant, teenage girl. He will never be a woman. He will never know what it is really like.

Maybe he's jealous, he will never be able to sacrifice a baby to Molech. Or he's just gay. /sarc

Or just a jerk.

[oblomov]

And in the movie the most normal and intelligent people were working-class nobodies while the desperate broken people were upper-middle class “creatives”. That’s a narrative that a modern liberal can’t abide.

[oblomov]

>>”what was the moral of the story?”

I think it was mercifully subtle, not obtrusive and unavoidable like an episode of “All in the Family”.