Thursday, December 20, 2007
I Only Wanna Be with Jew
Last night while flipping around I landed on VH1's "Best 100 Songs of the 90s" or whatever, and Hootie and the Blowfish were on. In a show of protest over what I feel was an exhorbanant about of backlash back in the day I decided to watch their 2-minute segment. A little support. Made it big, too big, disappeared, still rocking, nice guys etc etc etc. Then as I'm flipping away they cut to a live show, them rocking out. Cough. And there up front is Hootie himself, wearing a Beatles t-shirt. In fact, the tee was the cover of Revolver. All I could do was shake my head dang, dude! We get it - you hate black people!! We get it! Turn it down a notch! jeez.
Aside from hating black people, I think Hootie got an enormous amount of backlash as well. Along with DMB in the 90s, they were bands that created a sensation without the the record labels and media outlets help. That sense of impotence drove the disrespect for guys with their own unmanufactured talent and soul. the labels broke back with the meaningless cookie cutter pop and rap acts that still dominate.
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