{"id":6886,"date":"2011-04-24T20:10:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T00:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=6886"},"modified":"2011-04-24T20:10:54","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T00:10:54","slug":"john-maus-radical-savant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/john-maus-radical-savant\/","title":{"rendered":"John Maus: Radical Savant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its continuing quest to be hip, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/allsongs\/2011\/04\/23\/135639878\/the-thrilling-manic-and-utterly-addictive-john-maus\" target=\"_blank\">NPR posted this interview with <\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/allsongs\/2011\/04\/23\/135639878\/the-thrilling-manic-and-utterly-addictive-john-maus\" target=\"_blank\">John Maus<\/a><\/strong> and entitled it, &#8220;The Thrilling, Manic and Utterly Addictive John Maus.&#8221;<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SDqJjRoXBMI?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Mr. Maus makes multiple statements that invite discussion. These are just a few:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Music of the 1990s was &#8220;a goofy mistake.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Utopia is &#8220;us playing our tapes for each other.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The most radical thing we can do (in making music is to) make it as poppy as possible.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I&#8217;m a fan of electronica and experimental music, but this interview made me want to pull up a rocking chair and join the ranks of <strong>E. Pluribus Gergely&#8217;s Curmudgeon Club<\/strong>. While some bands of the 1980s, namely <strong>Scritti Politti<\/strong>, have also made the argument that pop music can be a form of revolution, Mr. Maus&#8217;s babble came across to me as annoying and ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you will join me in further discussion of this interview, NPR&#8217;s title, and Mr. Maus&#8217;s conclusions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its continuing quest to be hip, NPR posted this interview with John Maus and entitled it, &#8220;The Thrilling, Manic and Utterly Addictive John Maus.&#8221; Mr. Maus makes multiple statements that invite discussion. These are just a few: Music of the 1990s was &#8220;a goofy mistake.&#8221; Utopia is &#8220;us playing our tapes for each other.&#8221; <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/john-maus-radical-savant\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}