paul & i were having an argument last night about blur’s new image, or lack thereof, & i was amusing myself with the pun that blur’s new image was a bit blurry, & that got me thinking about the whole issue of marketing & music, & the media product that IS pop music, (hey, not that we don’t all need a little aqua in our lives now & then), & then i was trying to recall these lyrics:

people used to make records
as in a record of an event
the event of people playing music in a room
now everything is cross-marketing
its about sunglasses & shoes
or guns & drugs
you choose

-ani difranco, from fuel