Saturday, April 4, 2009

Tone Deaf in Motown

Why does the media short change Motown?  Tonight, instead of using "Dancing in the Streets" or "Heatwave" or any other great Motown hit, CBS lead off their coverage with Kid Rock's cover of Kiss' "Detroit Rock City."  How white-boy suburbanite can CBS be?

A couple of years ago the same thing happened at the Super Bowl, where instead of featuring say, Detroit native Aretha Franklin or a Motown star like Smokey Robinson, the half-time show featured the Rolling Stones.  It's bad enough slighting Motown, worse to turn to a British band who became famous doing kareoke-style versions of black American music.

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