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- From: tcbowden@clovis.felton.ca.us (Timothy Bowden)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
- Subject: Re: Laura Nyro
- Message-ID: <JRcRwB3w165w@clovis.felton.ca.us>
- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 08:24:30 PST
- References: <1992Dec21.181746.1@cubldr.colorado.edu>
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- stegner_g@cubldr.colorado.edu writes:
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- > - and as for videos, she did in fact have one played on VH1 - but it
- > wasn't a video in the conventional sense, it was just a video of her
- > performing solo. I can't picture Nyro doing a video with slick,
- > high-speed editing and all that stuff. It would be very embarrassing.
- > Videos in general tend to be embarrassing, but this is my opinion.
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- I am perhaps showing my age, but I have never understood the attraction
- of those quick-cut rapid-fire extravaganzas which incessantly violate
- the first principle of any type of photography, that it should allow
- access. I know the editing is a figleaf to hide the inability of pop
- stars to dance like Paula, which talent seems to be the most important
- attribute of MTV, but the result is actual motion sickness.
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- Bring back the langorous pensive incisive concert film!
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- ...and Laura Nyro.
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