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...slots simultaneously on the pop, black and dance charts. Purple Rain had already sold nearly 2.5 million copies before the movie was released last Friday. This is serious business. So is the movie, a short-circuited psychodrama that grafts snazzy performance footage onto the fictive fever chart of an angst-ridden musician called The Kid and played by Prince himself. The movie has been pulling down real tub-thumper reviews, the sort of hot-seat hype that gives some indication of the way Prince can generate fever and keep the temperature high...
...musical approaches are needed. Perhaps, but a survey of contemporary pop music hardly inspires the kind of change and activistnecessary for a world warring in every hemisphere. Travers says today's popular music commercially defined by the 13-25 age group, "articulates for that segment of society, a social angst--a haunting anxiety about the future." Whereas the popular music of the 1960s took on heavy topics with an eye towards change and hope, today's music is fraught with frustration, alienation and egoism...
ALMOST every current top 40 song fits part of all of Travers' description. A few, however, are worth particular mention, partly because their accompanying MTV videos have further confirmed today's angst. Both the literal and visual interpretations of, for instance. Laura Brannigan's "You Take My Self Control," radiate a preoccupation with instant and continuous self-satisfaction. The haunting flip-side of that egoism is a disturbing loneliness, even more evident in the video. A similar anxiety--coupled with alienation--from lovers, parents, friends, and self--characterizes Cindy Lauper's "Time After Time...
Greenfeld convincingly evokes the terrain where he has lived for more than a decade, winning an Oscar nomination for the screenplay of his novel Harry and Tonto and psychic bruises from the failures of unluckier projects. In the Freudian setting of a studio men's room, producers trade angst-drenched conversation about whose career is bigger. Aging men who cannot control their appetites go in search of one-night stands and "kosher diet tacos." A rabbi pronouncing a eulogy reaches his apogee with the solemn question, "And who of us does not love show business...
...THIS STARTED on a subway train somewhere near the Charles stop about two weeks into the fall of freshman year. Two classmates and I were taking the train into Boston late at night. We had no destination. We were three Harvard freshmen, newly burdened with the angst of academia, drowning in Harvard and all its implications. "This is great," someone said. "This is exactly what I needed: to get away...