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The extrapolation from Reynold's piece wld be that the English are racist to the French if they didn't buy the NME if they put Johnny Halliday on the cover, hate Brazilians if a samba band was on the cover...
Me, I'm with Morrissey - I dislike reggae, hip hop & RnB: and this dislike has zero to do with racism, and everything to do with my preference for English rock bands. How can it be a dirty secret if a cover with a black artist didn't sell to a constituency with a track record in listening and following guitar band music? Reynolds is just manipulating facts to fit his thesis, which is sloppy journalism at best, ... and if you really extrapolated his specious argument we English wld have to hate bands who were influenced by black music...
So, correct me if I am wrong but Reynolds' piece exists to make his point that music with black influences is good. Music without is bad. He also seems to be forgetting that the Black experience isn't as central in British music culture...(altho, of course, no less important for that)
Oh and I'm a girl which also doesn't fit yet another one of his convenient theses.
