Madonna's just a packaged Barbie doll, only instead of being a Veterinarian, or a Bay Watch life guard, or a beautician, she's just "In Your Face" Barbie.
As they say, "she hits the demo" -- demographic. And what a sweet spot demographic it is. Everyone and their grandma can understand what she's doing. They might say, "S&M, oh bad, bad..." or "Oh, S&M oh, edgy..." but they get what it is...
the bands that do something truly original and edgy have such a small demographic as to almost laughable. Some of the hottest bands in NYC today among the uber-hipster young are...get this!...ska bands.
Now I have to go induce vomiting! I'm so depressed now, I thought there was some hope after seeing the band OK Go! and the Trachtenberg Family Slideshow...
SKA????
There was an ultra-hip, clove-cigarette-smoking Japanese student on our floor freshman year, back in 1980. We were all listening to "The Wall." He was into ska.
At a party at a football frat early in the year, he voiced the immortal line, "How about some ska?" We got him out before he could be beaten to a bloody pulp.
I'll take a ska band over a pseudo-iconoclastic politically correct Las Vegas production any day!