Writing about music these days can be hard. When the public's knowledge of musicians is as celebrities rather than artists, how should a careful scribe treat them? Should we pooh-pooh the public's philistinism and
treat musicians with the seriousness they are accustomed to? Or should we use the same breathless, publicist-friendly voice you might find in
Us Weekly (which is, lest we forget, the sister publication to bastion of taking-musicians-seriously
Rolling Stone)? Well,
EW's Shirley Halperin has seen the future of music writing, and it sounds an awful lot like Cindy Adams.
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