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<blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">james</strong> said:</div><div>I think the thing that problematizes the Beach Boys for a lot of folks is that they are so very, very white. Connecting them to any sort of black music/aesthetic--which is easily the #1 go-to legitimization for modern aesthetes of all colors--requires some pretty impossible gymnastics of logic.</div></blockquote> <br /> It's not just their pristine whiteness, it's their total lack of connection with any kind of underground. And no, the Manson thing doesn't count, it just makes them look naive and kind of stupid.
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