[kj] Extremities - America

[folk devil]

I don't think that Americans were the intended audience for America, they were preaching to an already 'converted' European audience. Britain already being the 51st State.

NMA's 51st State was aimed at Brits, not Americans (IMO)
 


From: karen.weil at sddt.com
To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:05:45 -0700
Subject: Re: [kj] Extremities




Alex is right -- when I first heard the song, I was underwhelmed  -- it told me nothing I didn't already know about this country. 
 
 
k.w.
the States 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Alexander Smith 
To: Paul Wady 
Cc: Gatherers Killing Joke Gatherers 
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: [kj] Extremities


"What do you American's think of that song to this day?"


I don't believe it made any significant impact, really. I mean, had it been Simply Red or INXS or whomever was a big deal at the time, that would be different, but for a rather under-the-radar band to produce a curiously slick-but-soulless pop ditty about the skewed values of the American aristocrat, it was pretty much dead-on-arrival.


It was no "51st State" by New Model Army, for example.


Alex in NYC





  		 	   		  
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