Word: sneering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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American music, like America itself, seems too democratic for any title to endure. Ask almost any rapper or alternative rocker if Elvis is the King of Rock, and all you'll get is a sneer. Michael Jackson likes to call himself the King of Pop, but we all know the true king of pop is whoever has the No. 1 album in a given week. All told, there's only one monarch in music whose title has never rung false and still holds up--and that's Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul...
There were whispers that after a White House conversation with Travolta, Clinton put pressure on Germany to soften its stance toward the Church of Scientology, of which the actor is an outspoken adherent, and that in return Travolta portrayed Stanton more sympathetically. That rumor gets a sneer from Klein ("I don't think Clinton would change policy toward Germany to get better treatment from John Travolta"), but the actor has warm memories of the chat, in which he says Clinton spoke of an old roommate who had been a Scientologist. Travolta insists his performance wasn't swayed by the President...
...Tamagotchis Sneer if you wish; years from now we may find ourselves wistfully recalling these beeping, needy key-chain creatures not as '97's Pet Rock--or rather not just as '97's Pet Rock--but as technocultural landmarks: the first mutable digital life-forms to win our children's hearts. Let's hope their descendants don't learn to talk...
...just for argument's sake, that you have been bitten by the Elvis bug. You dye your hair black, don a white rhinestone-studded jumpsuit, curl your upper lip into a passable sneer and venture forth. You start the world's 481st Elvis fan club. You print up personalized Elvis stationery and Elvis T shirts, and start a Web page with photos of Graceland. You throw Elvis-themed parties...
Some veteran artists sneer at the hype. "I'm not a big fan of racist-conspiracy theories, but it's hard not to notice that for the last 15 years every R.-and-B., hip-hop and dance record has been an electronic record," says U.S. techno pioneer Moby, who is white. "Then two white British guys [the Chemical Brothers] come along sampling hip-hop without the lyrics, and they're hailed as avant-garde...