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...created with her brand.” And VF writer James Wolcott couldn’t help but be impressed by the twins and their aura, concluding that, “Unlike the Bush daughters or the Hilton sisters, who always look as if they were about to pop out of a bachelor-party cake, M-K and Ash, as they’re known in the hood, are modest, demure, able to walk without weaving.” The very fact that Vanity Fair interviewed the twins in the first place is telling of the indelible mark they have...
Hornby’s definition of pop is broad enough to include Bob Dylan as well as Nelly Furtado. He has little time for snobbishness, though in a piece previously published in The New Yorker he surveys the Billboard Top Ten albums with a mixture of bewilderment, distaste and humor...
...cross when these other people don’t like them as much as I do,” Hornby writes in the opening chapter of Songbook. The book that follows is a rambling, self-deprecating and often hilarious account of Hornby’s personal relationship with pop, from metal to folk to electronica...
...Pop music is Hornby’s creative fuel. “Music is energy. I hear something in the creativity of a song and I want to convert it into words,” he said in an interview earlier this month. When asked at a reading at First Parish Church in Cambridge why he doesn’t play music, Hornby responded, “I like music too much to want to do that...
Hornby is a spokesperson for music fans who feel the need for musical accompaniment in their lives wherever possible. Possibly the biggest revelation in Songbook is that it doesn’t matter why a song speaks to the listener, or whether it’s a throwaway pop song instead of a lyrical masterpiece. It is the connection that matters...