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Fri, 25 Jun 2004
Tom Sgouros asked us a while back if we could think of any modern-day
pop music analogues for Andrew Marvel's poem To His Coy
Mistress. The poem is essentially about not putting off
pleasure--after all, we won't live forever. It's a pretty racy poem,
but because it's written in pretty poetic language it often ends up in
9th grade English textbooks. At the time, we were discussing how, over
time, even the most scandalous art becomes cannonical and we forget the
controversy it created. We were wondering whether in 100 years Li'l Kim
will be part of a lesson plan on early 21st century music.
Anyway, the rest of us lost track of that discussion thread, but Tom
kept thinking about it--recently, he put together this radio
piece based on some of his research.