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Monday, May 12, 2008 12:00 AM

Hip-hop is no longer cooler than me

It's a sad day when a farm boy from Iowa can say that about a musical genre he once loved. When will the awful dance crazes end?
By Paul Kix

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  • Monday, May 12, 2008 07:13 AM

    PS to my "What's Next?"

    I hit "Publish" too soon.

    What I meant to say was that, as a middle-aged guy, everything new I hear sounds like music (often lame music; after hearing Slipknot touted a couple years back, I bought Iowa and fell asleep while listening to this allegedly fierce music) and that worries me.

    —just john Read just john's other letters

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