When keeping it real goes wrong and When keeping it Real goes wrong 

posted by natedogg at 04:34PM CST on September 13

Sounds like someone still has some pent up anger. I understand his desire to render the issue of "selling-out" moot by making the point irrelevant; still, I don't think he had to house the poor editor of the Advocate that badly. (It's about as bad as one of those classic "hostile" interviews in the AV Club). And it's easy to see that his point is true for people that have been known and respected in the business for 10 years (as he says about the editor of The Baffler, for example) but not so easy to relate to people that haven't built up "street cred." In other words, I can see the need to give Eggers as much leeway as he'd like if he wants to make movies &c but I'm going to go ahead and keep dissing Ashlee Simpson (for example) for not (ever) keeping it real even though I've never taken the time to listen to her work.

And I'll still appreciate some things for being underground and only understandable by "my crowd" (whatever that means) because even though it doesn't make sense that adds value for me. If McSweeney's articles started getting read nightly on the NBC News at 6, I'd probably stop caring, as sad as that sounds. 

posted by natedogg at 05:01PM CST on September 13