Word: boying
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Luke Perry. See ya De Niro. Gone are the days when the leather jacket-wearing, motorcycle-riding, joint-smoking, potty-mouthed rebel was sexy. No one wants a bad boy anymore. Women, it seems, have traded in the "man" for the "boy"-the ultra-sensitive male, the girl's guy. What distinguishes a "boy" from a "man?" A boy is secure in his sexual ambiguity-he works in the mud by day, cooks and writes verse by night. A boy doesn't pose because he knows the attraction of his own feminine appeal. But do girls really want a boy...
...This guy came up to me between sets and said, "Let me talk to you here, boy. I understand what you're doing. I'm an international man. I've traveled. I've been to Europe. I've heard the Rolling Stones play. But what you're playing up there is black music. Ain't two black people between here and Missoula. And they're only here because we let 'em stay. Out here, a man's been out hefting hay in the field all day, he comes to hear a band at night, and he wants to hold...
...this time, things are different. The culture of the teeny-bopper to dominance in full-force, wielding enough market power to induce every radio station, record company, and teen magazine to cater to their every need. And what they want, in addition to cottom candy pop and boy bands are No Doubt and Korn. Page after page of Teen Beat and J-14 oogle at the pink-haired princess Stefani and her hunky (ex?)boyfriend, Bush leader singer Gavin Rossdale or the sultry darkness and misogynistic masculinity of Korn and fellow bad-asses Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock...
...fact that Teen Beat and J-14 have embraced Korn's image, the readers cannot keep up with the live lifestyle. Unfortunately, No Doubt has fallen prey to the monster of mainstream appeal and teenybopper crowds. On the way out of the Centrum after Korn, I saw a small boy, barely eight, staring down at the emptying pit. "Did you like the show?" I asked the catatonic child. His father replied "It was his first concert." Oh, that hurts. Should have picked No Doubt, my boy. Things may never be the same after Korn...
...washed electronic hallucinations: Fervent crowds at barricades, media helicopters overhead, an air of anger/ardor/faith all mingled - a sort of religio-political hysteria, posters held up like icons, T-shirts of the boy worn like scapulars: The child-cult of the Boy on the Dolphin and of his mother, the Drowned Madonna. Visions of Freedom for the boy, or of honorable Martyrdom earned in saving him from Going Back. The dream looked something like the early scenes of "La Dolce Vita...