Re: Too few Asian Voice Actors

Meursalt wrote:

> Once, long ago in a dream, I received this telepathic communique
> from Fish Eye no Miko. I remember as if it were 9/23/2005 4:18 PM...
>>
>> And if you think this is a new thing, I'd like to introduce you to
>> a band called "The Monkees"...
>> (who, for the record, DID actually record a few albums of their own
>> music--and it was actually pretty darn good).
>
> The difference is the Monkees won a contest to be in the band.

No, they answered an ad to be on a tv show.
And, anyhow, how is that any different from _American Idol_?
<which in its defense, is called _American IDOL_, not, "The Next Bob
Dylan/Judy Collins/Ect").
And before the Monkees, Mickey Dolenz and Davy Jones were actors, NOT
musicians. That's half the band.
Again, I'm a FAN of the group, I'm just pointing out that the artificiality
of pop is NOT a new thing.

> Somehow that dignifies them a bit more to me, because they
> weren't groomed and polished for stardom from childhood,

Davy Jones as a child star, actually...

> but instead got one lucky break and ran with it. And they really WANTED
> to do their own stuff despite having a pretty decent
> ghost writer in Neil Diamond... and fought their label and
> producers until they finally got their way.

Yes, they did eventually do that.
But they were plenty popular when they were esentially four guys singing
other people's songs while other people played insurments in the
background.

> And when they finally did, they transformed themselves into
> this weird blend of psychedelic proto-punk that was
> anything BUT commercial.

I still haven't seen _Head_.. I'm kinda wonmindering if I should.

> As musicians in their own right, I have respect for them. Taking
> them as a cultural phenomenon, you do have a point - this sort of
> thing has happened before in decades past.

Which is my whole point.

> But it's really come to a head in the last ten years or so,

Yeah, it does seem more common these days.
And yet the RIAA whines that "piracy" is what's hurting their record sales
(and I've heard that their "declining sales" claim isn't even true...)

> and the world of popular music has really gone suffered for it. That's
> what we get for having a system where 14 year old mid-to-upper-class
> white girls are hugely disproportionally represented as an audience due
> to their huge spending power, and thus get to decide what the
> rest of us hear on the radio. I'm oversimplifying of course, but not by
> much.

Yeah...

Catherine Johnson.
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