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A parody of something that knows it's a parody is probably going to be pointless, which is why we haven't seen much by way of parodies of Electric Six. A parody of something which doesn't know it's a parody may be good, because it's taking up the first-level parodies inability to see it's a parody (see The Darkness).
The NME has been shit for ages but has always been shit for different reasons. It is shit now because it hasn't the money and resources to go out and do a proper job and because with things like the interweb fans have different and better means of finding out about things they like.In the early nineties it was shit but still had intelligent writers working for it (the fact that I won't name them means I've forgotten names, not that I can't back this up). It, along with the MM and Select, pushed Britpop so heavily because it didn't have to travel very far or spend much to do reportage. Look at the redesigns since the MM folded and you see a publication trying to disguise an increasing lack of content (letter from New York, letter from somewhere else, a page of two people talking about anything, Queens of Noise, do you remember when the albums reviews were more than three pages?). |
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