Wilco is the same in 2012 as in the 1990s: Kurt Andersen

[Kim Bodnia]

I just became aware, via salon.com, of this article by Kurt Andersen in Vanity Fair, dated January 2012. Quote:

 

"Now try to spot the big, obvious, defining differences between 2012 and 1992. Movies and literature and music have never changed less over a 20-year period. Lady Gaga has replaced Madonna, Adele has replaced Mariah Carey—both distinctions without a real difference—and Jay-Z and Wilco are still Jay-Z and Wilco. Except for certain details (no Google searches, no e-mail, no cell phones), ambitious fiction from 20 years ago (Doug Coupland’s Generation X, Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow) is in no way dated, and the sensibility and style of Joan Didion’s books from even 20 years before that seem plausibly circa-2012".

 

The Vanity Fair article: http://www.vanityfai...of-style-201201

 

The salon.com feature: http://www.salon.com...ally_just_1991/

[sonnyfeeling]

I read that while flying to Chicago last week to see Wilco at the Civic Opera and the Riviera. Too bad the premise is fatally flawed. Wilco did not exist in 1991. Jeff Tweedy and John Stirratt were both in Uncle Tupelo at that point and would continue to be there until 1994.

 

Hitchens would have caught that.