Comments on: One Measly Writer From Kenosha Shakes Jessica Simpson’s Country Rep

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By: uptonking

uptonking — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:18:13 +0000

“a more established country singer, Kellie Pickler” – excuse, me… what planet is this?

By: AquaLung

AquaLung — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:22:26 +0000

Okay, I got ya.

By: Captain Wrong

Captain Wrong — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:22:42 +0000

Seriously, how much country these days has authentic "twang" anyway? Shit, someone like Hank I would probably sound like he's singing in a foreign language to these suburban soccer moms and the like.

My question is, if this is what they think of Simpson, what do these people think of Bon Jovi?

By: Maura Johnston

Maura Johnston — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:27:25 +0000

The point is that the many newspapers that picked up this story and ran with it didn’t even source the ONE REVIEW they were quoting, they just accepted the booing as fact, and the game of telephone where this reviewer’s perceptions were calcified into fact was on. I’d call that “implied consensus.”

By: AquaLung

AquaLung — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:13:45 +0000

"Possibly poorly sourced?" How do you know that?

What this reporter likely did was just got to the concert and walk up to random fans and ask their opinion. I don't think it was ever implied this was some sort of consensus, just a smattering of random people at the event.

The gossip mags are slime, obviously, and this reporter has no control if they take her story and twist it into something that sells.

It sucks for Simpson, but I don't think the reporter did anything wrong and I don't think the fact that her outlet is a small newspaper means it's any less credible. It's almost certainly more credible than OK! or something.

By: Maura Johnston

Maura Johnston — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:26:31 +0000

@AquaLung: Because thousands of gossip rags ran with one possibly poorly sourced account of events. You didn't hear people say "Jessica Simpson gets mixed reaction," which might have been more plausible. I mean, it would have been less odd if a LiveJournal post about the crowd had been mixed in. Instead the whole sourcing process was like a game of telephone that wasn't double-checked at all, and the crowd reaction was referred to as if that was the prevailing opinion instead of just one reporter's account of events.

By: AquaLung

AquaLung — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:32:08 +0000

Damn, I don’t understand is why it matters that this girl wrote for a small newspaper, a live journal, or the New York Times- a voice is still a voice.

By: graeffufighting

graeffufighting — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:25:52 +0000

"'I just don't hear the country in her; I don't hear the twang. She's not good enough to be here,' said Adam Matos, 21, from Arlington Heights, Ill."

At the risk of duplicating Ted Striker's post, the notion of someone from Arlington Heights, an Illinois suburb that, on its poorest day, is still solidly upper-middle-class, complaining about "twang" is off-the-charts absurd.

(this is said as a dude who grew up in Wilmette, the town that brought you Bill Murray and Fall Out Boy). Tricky legacy, that.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:53:35 +0000

"It didn't sit well with audience members that Simpson played after a more established country singer, Kellie Pickler."

lolz.

fuckin' ree-tahhdz.

By: doctaj

doctaj — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:50:19 +0000

well, kenosha IS known to be a hotbead of satanism. maybe this is all the work of some misguided disciple of lucifer?

By: Ted Striker

Ted Striker — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:35:39 +0000

The irony of anyone from Wisconsin decrying country music for lacking “twang” is about to make my head explode. Just because Brett Favre is from Mississippi doesn’t make you an expert on southern lingo.

By: Chris N.

Chris N. — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:31:55 +0000

Some YouTube posters aren’t looking for anything logical. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some YouTube posters just want to watch the world burn.

By: bcapirigi

bcapirigi — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:51:16 +0000

I wonder what prompted that one person (or persons) to post thirty seconds of dull banter to Youtube, more than anything.