Celebrity Despicability Is A Precious Thing.

If All Music Did Was Bring The Past Alive, That Would Be Fine. You Can Hide Away In Music And Let It Recapture Memories Of Things That Used To Be. But Music Is Greedy And It Wants More Of Your Heart Than That. It Demands The Future, Your Future. Music Wants The Rest Of Your Life. So You Can't Rest Easy. At Any Moment, A Song Can Come Out Of Nowhere To Shake You Up, Jump-start Your Emotions, Ruin Your Life.

At An Incredibly Divisive Point In Pop History, Donna Summer Managed To Create An Undeniable Across-the-board Experience Of Mass Pleasure - After 'bad Girls,' Nobody Ever Tried Claiming Disco Sucked Again. It Set The Template For What Michael Jackson Would Do A Few Months Later With 'off The Wall.'

There Are All Kinds Of Mix Tapes. There Is Always A Reason To Make One.

When I Started Out As A Music Journalist, At The End Of The 1980s, It Was Generally Assumed That We Were Living Through The Lamest Music Era The World Would Ever See. But Those Were Also The Years When Hip-hop Exploded, Beatbox Disco Soared, Indie Rock Took Off, And New Wave Invented A Language Of Teen Angst.

Sending Paris Hilton To Jail For Being The Most Loathed Celeprosy Lesion In The History Of The Species Seems Like A Happening Idea At First - Forty-five Days At Century Regional Detention Center Is So The New Thirty Days At Promises Malibu! But It Sets A Dangerous Precedent To Jail Celebs Just Because Someone Hates Them.