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For his 2007 critically acclaimed 33 1/3 series title, Let's Talk About Love , Carl Wilson went on a quest to find his inner Céline Dion fan and explore how we define ourselves by what we call good and bad, what we love and what we hate. At once among the most widely beloved and most reviled and lampooned pop stars of the past few decades, Céline Dion's critics call her mawkish and overblown while millions of fans around the world adore her "huge pipes" and even bigger feelings. How can anyone say which side is right? This new, expanded edition goes even further, calling on thirteen prominent writers and musicians to respond to themes ranging from sentiment and kitsch to cultural capital and musical snobbery. The original text is followed by lively arguments and stories from Nick Hornby, Krist Novoselic, Ann Powers, Mary Gaitskill, James Franco, Sheila Heti and others. In a new afterword, Carl Wilson examines recent cultural changes in love and hate, including the impact of technology and social media on how taste works (or doesn't) in the 21st century.
Author Notes
Carl Wilson is a writer and editor at The Globe and Mail , Canada's national newspaper, and his work also has appeared in Pitchfork , Slate , The New York Times , Blender and many other publications. His pieces were selected for two of Da Capo Books' annual Best Music Writing collections, in 2002 and 2007, by guest editors Jonathan Lethem and Robert Christgau. He runs the popular music blog Zoilus.com and is part of the team behind Trampoline Hall, Toronto's acclaimed nightclub series of lectures by non-experts, which toured America in 2002.
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Booklist Review
Here's Wilson's redo of his 2007 Celine Dion smearfest and smartly considered discussion of taste, good and bad (part of the 33 1/3 series), with two new sections added. This volume pulls out the original 12 multipronged chapters covering the vagaries and varieties of opinions on pop culture (the hell that is other people's favorite music) and a vivid, bloody dissection of Dion the performer and her overbearingly popular Titanic hit, My Heart Will Go On, and adds a part 2, which brings in culture-related essays from such writers and performers as Nick Hornby, Mary Gaitskill, and James Franco (Franco noting, after discussing his General Hospital soap-opera stint, the difference in how critics employ context, whether they looked up to it, or down on it. Part 3, the smallest, offers Wilson's updated reflections. The book is laugh-out-loud funny, whip-smart about contemporary thought, and fascinating in its many voices, but, readers, beware you may wind up humming that song for days afterward.--Kinney, Eloise Copyright 2014 Booklist
Table of Contents
| New Introduction |
| 1 Let's Talk About Hate |
| 2 Let's Talk About Pop (and Its Critics) |
| 3 Let's Talk in French |
| 4 Let's Talk About World Conquest |
| 5 Let's Talk About Schmaltz |
| 6 Let's Sing Really Loud |
| 7 Let's Talk About Taste |
| 8 Let's Talk About Who's Got Bad Taste |
| Essays and Responses |
| New Conclusion |