"To say something pretty dumb, but I'll just use it as an example: When the Beatles came out, most of our culture denied them as having any viable artistic merit. And, of course, now we look back and say this is probably one of the greatest musical achievements of the last 100 years.He is right, to even breathe these two things in the same sentence is fucking dumb. His first paragraph is correct, but to compare this to the Jersey Shore would be to suggest that 50 years from now we'll all look back on it and realize how "genius" and "artistic" basically rubbernecking a tanned car wreck with huge tits was.
"In terms of 'Jersey Shore,' the thing about it is that television is so vast there is room for programming like that and it serves a purpose and people are entertained by it."
But, again, his first bit is correct, and we know this to be true because I said it a year and a half ago:
The greatest instance of "teenyboppers" would hafta be when the Beatles first came to America 45 years ago next month. 12 year-old girls running through the streets, screaming their lungs out and pissing themselves (literally.) Passing out at concerts, writing "I LOVE PAUL" all over their titties, whatever. Of course any grown man seeing this would scoff at how silly the girls were acting, and assume that after about 3 months The Beatles would go away, replaced by a newer fad and never heard from again. Not a crazy thing to think if you were the average 35 year-old guy at the time.
But what they didn't know was of course the Beatles WEREN'T fly-by-night pretty boys merely shaking their moptops to girls. They had spent years and years playing together for 7 hours a night in clubs throughout Germany and England, and had honed their craft to the point of being actual musicians. So even though the crowds were acting like lunatics, the Beatles themselves were very capable, and in fact spent the next couple of years confounding the world as they got EVEN BETTER by leaps and bounds.
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