from a brief history of popular music
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The pace of reform within the music industry seemed unstoppable.
Everywhere respect for the person was blooming regardless of looks or shapeliness.
The biggest star to join the revolution was perhaps Michael Jackson who outdid all others in non judgemental casting policies by hiring fairly decrepit members of streetgangs for his Beat It video and dead people for Thriller.
This was the final straw for the ageing perverts of the record companies politbureau.
They sent in the tanks.
Or more precisely, they sent in a new pop group called the Bangles which featured as its line up Susannah Hoffs and three main battle tanks, an Abrams, a Sherman and a T34.
Some historians claim that there were no actual tanks in the Bangles, that they didn't massacre anybody, and that the line up was Susannah Hoffs, a war hammer, the back of a bus, and Lars Ulrich respectively.
The point is moot.
As more and more recording artists had begun making non sexy videos. the politbureau unleashed the Bangles and soon the tide of human dignity within performance art was reversed.
Susannah Hoffs' bum wiggle devastated the whole nascent idea of respect for the person as a keynote in popular music video culture.
Bum wiggles from sensually arrayed performers were once more the order of the day.
The ingeniousness of the policy was that the Bangles were also accomplished musicians and a superlative performing group.
The sex kittenish qualities of Susannah Hoffs were of course just the vanguard of the politbureau backlash.
In Albania a louche sensualist styling herself Madonna Ciccone was appointed President for life.
(LA surely? - Ed note)
Ordinary looking people all but disappeared overnight from pop music videos though there is no proof that the Bangles or Madonna actually killed them.
The Hag Spring was over.
As Cyndi Lauper was led away in chains to begin a new career managing wrestling tournaments, she turned to the camera and delivered a short message to her fans.
"Do not fear," she said. "The not so good looking people will come out again."
That was thirty long years ago and it still hasn't happened.
The pace of reform within the music industry seemed unstoppable.
Everywhere respect for the person was blooming regardless of looks or shapeliness.
The biggest star to join the revolution was perhaps Michael Jackson who outdid all others in non judgemental casting policies by hiring fairly decrepit members of streetgangs for his Beat It video and dead people for Thriller.
This was the final straw for the ageing perverts of the record companies politbureau.
They sent in the tanks.
Or more precisely, they sent in a new pop group called the Bangles which featured as its line up Susannah Hoffs and three main battle tanks, an Abrams, a Sherman and a T34.
Some historians claim that there were no actual tanks in the Bangles, that they didn't massacre anybody, and that the line up was Susannah Hoffs, a war hammer, the back of a bus, and Lars Ulrich respectively.
The point is moot.
As more and more recording artists had begun making non sexy videos. the politbureau unleashed the Bangles and soon the tide of human dignity within performance art was reversed.
Susannah Hoffs' bum wiggle devastated the whole nascent idea of respect for the person as a keynote in popular music video culture.
Bum wiggles from sensually arrayed performers were once more the order of the day.
The ingeniousness of the policy was that the Bangles were also accomplished musicians and a superlative performing group.
The sex kittenish qualities of Susannah Hoffs were of course just the vanguard of the politbureau backlash.
In Albania a louche sensualist styling herself Madonna Ciccone was appointed President for life.
(LA surely? - Ed note)
Ordinary looking people all but disappeared overnight from pop music videos though there is no proof that the Bangles or Madonna actually killed them.
The Hag Spring was over.
As Cyndi Lauper was led away in chains to begin a new career managing wrestling tournaments, she turned to the camera and delivered a short message to her fans.
"Do not fear," she said. "The not so good looking people will come out again."
That was thirty long years ago and it still hasn't happened.
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