Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

i've managed to check out Snoop Dogg, Usher, Eminem and Missy Elliott, but i've been told that Usher and Missy are no longer cool enough.

What's cool?
i'm serious - i need to bring some stuff to students, prepare cds and readings and it's a lot of work. i need to put the right names down.

Can anyone help me?
Also- i'm talking about kids from age 13 - 15, so the less pimp and weed talk the better

judih

judih,

my pop culture consultant is still in school
but when she returns I will get her to make some suggestions
I think she is making odds at the middle school
on who will win American Idol

yeah, good connection, l-rod.

i got mine happening on this side of the sea, but maybe yours has got another side of edge happenin, huh!
ssup dude, huh

(am i fakin it?- no, i ain't down)

Wish I knew too but I don't know very much about any of the new music scene of any genre. Me bad, but heck, how do you keep abreast anyway? I am still listening to the Dead and Miles.????

Here is the list from my pop culture consultant, alicia

Usher IS cool according to alicia and everybody in her school
Ciara
Christina Millian
Lil Flip
50 Cent
Petey Pablo
Mario
Destiny's Child
T.I.
Lil Wayne
Pharrell Williams
Ludacris
Lil John
Beyonce
Nelly (the guy, not the girl)
Fabulous
Ashanti
P Diddy
Kanye West
Ja Rule

(I had to cut her off here, she had them all listed in a folder with the lyrics included)

good luck, j

Garbage. Noisy, street boasts and obscenities to cheap machine-like rhythms. Why?

Louis Armstrong is a big improvement over the last 50 years of pop music.

Lrod...Alicia must know. I know my folks were baffled at what I was listening to when I was her age. They know who Jagger is now. Hah! She is fortunate to have you and Dor for mentors and encourgement to seek what she likes and judih is smart to go to the source.

You'd be better off playin' them Brahms.

I have to go with sooz and zoso (anagram) on the music taste thing
Miles and Louis Armstrong rock my socks as alicia would say
but the new kids are interesting too
alicia and I faithfully watch American Idol together

that better have been sarcasm, LR.

You watch american idol? Haha!

Christ.

Hip Hop isn't an art form it's a Marketing Vessel for Sports wear and expensive lifestyles.

Alicia's list threw up one or two names I'm not familair with. But as for the rest of them, there's only one interesting inclusion. Pharrell Williams. If that's the guy in N.E.R.D. then he's pretty interesting. They seem to do clever things with mixing genres and creating new sounds (relatively new).

Just play the kids some Tom Waits, Jude. And pretend it's hip hop. Or Cptn. Beefheart, he has some pretty nifty sounding beats. just play it at the wrong speed.

The only rap music worth it's salt was the stuff I listened to when I was a wee boy. I had to listen to it with the volume down. NWA Straight Outta Compton. The black man's Nevermind the Bollocks.

I know when I was a kid, I didn't want anyone telling me what to listen too, especially an adult... I think it's strange that anyone can know what is best for everyone else and are the arbiters of taste. I say let Alicia and her generation choose what they like even though this old woman has no clue as to what it is she may like about it. Maybe it will sink in my thick skull in a few years and her and her tribe can have a laugh when I am humming it in the supermarket. Hah!

Hip Hop isn't an art form it's a Marketing Vessel for Sports wear and expensive lifestyles

the Benster yawps somethin' half-way intelligent occasionally. Not only sportswear and celebrity life, but, ya know, booty: hiphop's soft porn really....

the Benster yawps somethin' half-way intelligent occasionally

This is not acceptable conduct on these boards. You are continuing to slam the members of these boards.

I thought you left.

What was your offer to leave? A lie?

Thanks people. Thanks to Alicia. If she could throw some song titles my way, it would be cool.

Pharrell? yeah - he's good.

don't fear, people. i've got a lot of angles covered
check out this:

http://www.geocities.com/privaj/musicbio.html
(Mozart, Hendrix, Bessie Smith, Billie Holliday, Armstrong, Davis, Parker, Beatles, Dylan)

and i've got Marley, Avril Lavigne (probably not cool enough), some John Lennon, Dylan, and Beatles.

They make requests, they have to make the worksheets.
But today's hot is tomorrow's supermarket and we all need to be forewarned.

thanks again

Wish I could help Judih....but Erika is much more into the rock side of things....lately Radiohead and oddly enough George Harrison.........