outstanding essay. the 2nd sentence here is a BANGER:
“What is stranger, and more delightful, and more purely American than almost anything else in this entire story, is that her mother apparently loved being associated with the song enough to get a license plate that read MSJACKSON. This single detail could justify an entire separate essay about the difference between how a song’s subject experiences the song and how that subject’s parent experiences the song, because apparently there exists a version of being immortalized in a chart-topping hip-hop single that feels less like an invasion of privacy and more like winning a small, strange lottery. “
Excellent. I saw OutKast on the Stankonia tour in - of all venues, given how huge they’d soon become - the Asheville, NC Civic Center. Fantastic show - and I remember being impressed with how real the rapid-fire rapping was.
Great storytelling is nuanced; this one sure is, as well as the commentary about it.
outstanding essay. the 2nd sentence here is a BANGER:
“What is stranger, and more delightful, and more purely American than almost anything else in this entire story, is that her mother apparently loved being associated with the song enough to get a license plate that read MSJACKSON. This single detail could justify an entire separate essay about the difference between how a song’s subject experiences the song and how that subject’s parent experiences the song, because apparently there exists a version of being immortalized in a chart-topping hip-hop single that feels less like an invasion of privacy and more like winning a small, strange lottery. “
Excellent. I saw OutKast on the Stankonia tour in - of all venues, given how huge they’d soon become - the Asheville, NC Civic Center. Fantastic show - and I remember being impressed with how real the rapid-fire rapping was.