[UA] 50's music/NG Abortion

[Kevin Mowery]

-----Original Message-----
From: Yiannakos <Yiannako at geneseo.edu>
To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Date: Thursday, April 27, 2000 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: [UA] 50's music/NG Abortion


>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Kevin Elmore" <kelmore at rocketmail.com>
>To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
>Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 12:43 PM
>Subject: Re: [UA] Music for my Unknown Armies
>
>
>>
>> > > I heard there is a song saying "What a way for you to
>> > show you love me by having my baby."
>
>> This song raised some controversy (which indicates that it
>> was indeed not a song of the 50's).  The feminist line
>> would have run along the lines of "This song indicates that
>> you don't love your husband unless you crank out babies for
>> him."
>>
>> My take on it is that there are plenty of ways of showing
>> your love without getting pregnant.  I don't even know if
>> the song is suggesting that it is the only way to show your
>> love.
>
>Agreed. Bearing someone's child is a wonderful way to show love (but not
the
>only way) . I just don't read the words as saying "That's the only way".
>Anyway, moving on...

    It does, however, remind me of a line from a song that was sung by a
phony boy-band on an episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien last week: "I
want to make you make a baby."

    The central conceit of the entire, lengthy but amusing, sketch was that
following the success of ABC's "The Making of the Band" show in which a boy
band is constructed out of nothing but hopeful singers and marketing savvy,
Conan decides to do the same thing.  The result, Dudes a-Poppin', is
comical, of course.  (Because one guy in the Backstreet Boys has a cane
despite having nothing wrong with him, Conan goes one further and has one of
the young singers get on a respirator and into a wheelchair for no reason.)
But it doesn't have to be.

    I'm sure there's a UA scenario somewhere in there, between proxy magic,
idolomancy, and ordinary human greed.

Kevin Mowery________________profbobo at io.com
"'Jaws' is the warmest, tenderest, lovingest movie of
the year.  I give it four coconuts."               --Idi Amin




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