Posted 6:50 AM by Gene

Astonishingly, Effete Edelstein says the music of our generation's Singin' in the Rain is "awful." (The film proper, he says, is "just okay", as we'd guess with such genius.) We do not expect such plain, declarative words from Effete, as he swirls and bobs and weaves and whizzes around the need to make judgments, but we are not surprised. First, it's Branson East music (or as Effete puts it, "the old-fashioned Broadway ones in which people sing their thoughts are Lite FM sludge, like Lionel Richie doing recitative at the Met"); and second, it ain't Motown (or "Phil Spector Motown", whatever that is, aside from an insult), and while we would not call Motown Mozart we know its finger-snapping, life-affirming, giddy pleasures, and we further note the Frank Riches called this a masterwork to end all masterworks because they couldn't carry a tune with Yellow Freight.