ExileOnDaytonStreet
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As such: the number of people that are more universally loved (like, say, Prince) is going to decrease, so while more famous people will die, they won't have the same impact when they go.
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DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"
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As such: the number of people that are more universally loved (like, say, Prince) is going to decrease, so while more famous people will die, they won't have the same impact when they go.
rufus
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Re: DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"
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I dunno about that. There'll always be a good five or ten each year that will have that same sort of affect, at least for the next decade or two.
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I dunno about that. There'll always be a good five or ten each year that will have that same sort of affect, at least for the next decade or two.
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
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Exactly.
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Exactly.
Slap Shot
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There are simply far more entertainment venues than there were 10 years ago, 30 years ago.... More movies are made, there are hundreds of television channels and a lot of solid programming compared to when there were 4 main channels only and before cable networks dove into the field, musicians do a lot more to promote themselves than ever before, etc., etc.
We didn't just lose a lot of celebrities in 2016 we lost titans and icons. Yes every celebrity death gets a headline, but let's not exaggerate how impacting all of them are. Most get a nod, a sad smilie face on a blog and they're forgotten beyond their hardcore fans. There will be more and more of those but it will never be viewed the same way.
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There are simply far more entertainment venues than there were 10 years ago, 30 years ago.... More movies are made, there are hundreds of television channels and a lot of solid programming compared to when there were 4 main channels only and before cable networks dove into the field, musicians do a lot more to promote themselves than ever before, etc., etc.
We didn't just lose a lot of celebrities in 2016 we lost titans and icons. Yes every celebrity death gets a headline, but let's not exaggerate how impacting all of them are. Most get a nod, a sad smilie face on a blog and they're forgotten beyond their hardcore fans. There will be more and more of those but it will never be viewed the same way.
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Exactly. Celebrity and icon are different beasts.
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
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And "icon" is overused.
Looking at the deaths in 2016 I see two icons: Ali and Bowie. There are plenty of celebs who were icons within their niches -- Howe, Palmer, Wilder, Prince, Glenn, Scalia, Haggard -- but not people who changed the whole cultural landscape.
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And "icon" is overused.
Looking at the deaths in 2016 I see two icons: Ali and Bowie. There are plenty of celebs who were icons within their niches -- Howe, Palmer, Wilder, Prince, Glenn, Scalia, Haggard -- but not people who changed the whole cultural landscape.
Slap Shot
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I completely disagree on Palmer and Prince. Palmer completely changed golf in a way that only Tiger Woods could match some 40-50 years later. He helped it explode into TV broadcasting and was Jordan-like for endorsements.
Prince's influence on other artists is simply too immense to even begin to list and was every bit as influential as Bowie. That's not me as a MN boy talking, that's me as a fan and student of music for as long as I can remember talking.
John Glenn maybe doesn't garner the same, but the pioneers of the Space Program changed the world.
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I completely disagree on Palmer and Prince. Palmer completely changed golf in a way that only Tiger Woods could match some 40-50 years later. He helped it explode into TV broadcasting and was Jordan-like for endorsements.
Prince's influence on other artists is simply too immense to even begin to list and was every bit as influential as Bowie. That's not me as a MN boy talking, that's me as a fan and student of music for as long as I can remember talking.
John Glenn maybe doesn't garner the same, but the pioneers of the Space Program changed the world.
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
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Well, obviously if we're talking about people who changed The World, Glenn and Scalia are the only people on the list who matter at all.
But I'm talking about cultural phenomena who affect a large part of the world, and I'll stand by my claim.
It is probably very unusual that a year has 2 such deaths, since really we're talking about maybe 5 people in a decade. Michael Jackson, Elvis, maybe Michael Jordan. Charles Lindberg. No baseball or football players, ever. Maybe a dozen soccer players. Maybe a dozen actors. There just aren't many true "icons," by my way of thinking.
Re: DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"
Well, obviously if we're talking about people who changed The World, Glenn and Scalia are the only people on the list who matter at all.
But I'm talking about cultural phenomena who affect a large part of the world, and I'll stand by my claim.
It is probably very unusual that a year has 2 such deaths, since really we're talking about maybe 5 people in a decade. Michael Jackson, Elvis, maybe Michael Jordan. Charles Lindberg. No baseball or football players, ever. Maybe a dozen soccer players. Maybe a dozen actors. There just aren't many true "icons," by my way of thinking.
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What Slappy said. Prince, as a musician, absolutely changed the musical landscape and is an icon. His influence is unreal.
Same with Palmer, and as he said, Tiger. Different types of influence. Palmer brought golf to the public. Tiger extended that to the public who aren't (my quotes) "old, stuffy, and rich white guys."
In their fields, all of the above are indeed icons.
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What Slappy said. Prince, as a musician, absolutely changed the musical landscape and is an icon. His influence is unreal.
Same with Palmer, and as he said, Tiger. Different types of influence. Palmer brought golf to the public. Tiger extended that to the public who aren't (my quotes) "old, stuffy, and rich white guys."
In their fields, all of the above are indeed icons.
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
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Bold for emphasis. Nobody disputes this. Somewhere there is a rhythmic gymnastics icon.
Re: DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"
Bold for emphasis. Nobody disputes this. Somewhere there is a rhythmic gymnastics icon.
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Popular music and major sports garner a *bit* more attention. I guess I use the "popular" factor/interest in (insert field) when it comes to this.
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Popular music and major sports garner a *bit* more attention. I guess I use the "popular" factor/interest in (insert field) when it comes to this.
Slap Shot
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I think Kepler is being intentionally obtuse or just being stubborn based upon personal tastes. Palmer and Prince extended every bit as far beyond their industry as Bowie whom he has no trouble naming to such a list.
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I think Kepler is being intentionally obtuse or just being stubborn based upon personal tastes. Palmer and Prince extended every bit as far beyond their industry as Bowie whom he has no trouble naming to such a list.
Kepler stubborn based on his personal tastes??? Nah, can't be.
Twitch Boy
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Masaya Nakamura, founder of Namco, 91.
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Masaya Nakamura, founder of Namco, 91.
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
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I'll agree on music. Sports, only if it's a sport played round the world, so I'm afraid Babe Ruth and Jim Brown have to suck it.
Not OJ, though. OJ's an icon alright...
I just don't know about Prince. It's possibly he's Freddy Mercury out there in the wide world. I'll defer to the town meeting for a ruling on this.
I think of icons as a pyramid. Start with Jesus as the capstone and start moving down. At some point you artificially draw a line and say "icon above, celeb below." Where that line is is a matter of taste.*
* Or maybe there's a critical test: does the Culturally Conscious Man in the Street on the other side of the cultural world at least know who the person is? Not just the name but the "it" he or she is? Not the ignorant Amazon blow dart hunter or Sarah Palin, but a person with a modicum of culture from a totally different head space.
To put it another way: India's got Bollywood stars with a billion fans. Know any? If you do, that person has a shot at being an icon. I've heard of one: Guru Dutt (who wasn't even an actor).
So as much as my life was transformed by, say, George Carlin, he's not an all caps ICON. An icon needs to cast a global shadow, like Ali.
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I'll agree on music. Sports, only if it's a sport played round the world, so I'm afraid Babe Ruth and Jim Brown have to suck it.
Not OJ, though. OJ's an icon alright...
I just don't know about Prince. It's possibly he's Freddy Mercury out there in the wide world. I'll defer to the town meeting for a ruling on this.
I think of icons as a pyramid. Start with Jesus as the capstone and start moving down. At some point you artificially draw a line and say "icon above, celeb below." Where that line is is a matter of taste.*
* Or maybe there's a critical test: does the Culturally Conscious Man in the Street on the other side of the cultural world at least know who the person is? Not just the name but the "it" he or she is? Not the ignorant Amazon blow dart hunter or Sarah Palin, but a person with a modicum of culture from a totally different head space.
To put it another way: India's got Bollywood stars with a billion fans. Know any? If you do, that person has a shot at being an icon. I've heard of one: Guru Dutt (who wasn't even an actor).
So as much as my life was transformed by, say, George Carlin, he's not an all caps ICON. An icon needs to cast a global shadow, like Ali.
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Kepler
Si certus es dubita
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I'm open to the possibility that Bowie doesn't deserve to be on the list. My impression is he defined a particular era of culture, not just music, the way say The Beatles collectively (not individually) did before, and Elvis before them.
I agree that as music has shattered into a billion genres we may never have another music icon. I can't think of anybody after MJ except maybe Beyonce?
But I will say this: I insist that my obtuseness is not intentional.
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I'm open to the possibility that Bowie doesn't deserve to be on the list. My impression is he defined a particular era of culture, not just music, the way say The Beatles collectively (not individually) did before, and Elvis before them.
I agree that as music has shattered into a billion genres we may never have another music icon. I can't think of anybody after MJ except maybe Beyonce?
But I will say this: I insist that my obtuseness is not intentional.
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For "current" possible icons, Dave Grohl in the music world. I don't think he'll transcend like Prince or Bowie, though, despite his influences and talent.
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For "current" possible icons, Dave Grohl in the music world. I don't think he'll transcend like Prince or Bowie, though, despite his influences and talent.
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
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I'm saying more recent than, say, Thriller.
Madonna, certainly. Others? Although rap as a whole is earth-shaking there is no single transformative figure for the outside cultural world. Biggie really only reached mas consciousness after death (how ironic). Kanye thinks he is but he's really, really not.
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C'mon. Mccartney? Clapton? Keef and Mick?
Or are you talking more recent musical folks? Madonna for sure. Miley and Bieber?
I'm saying more recent than, say, Thriller.
Madonna, certainly. Others? Although rap as a whole is earth-shaking there is no single transformative figure for the outside cultural world. Biggie really only reached mas consciousness after death (how ironic). Kanye thinks he is but he's really, really not.
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
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For me this is a perfect example of a "cognoscenti icon," very much like Prince and, the more I think about it now, Bowie (the poster child is Zappa). These are people we really want to be icons because of their sheer quality. There are dozens of jazz artists in this group (Coltrane, Gillespie, Ellington, Holiday, Fitzgerald, Miles, Bird) but the only actual jazz "icon" is probably Louie Armstrong.
Re: DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"
For me this is a perfect example of a "cognoscenti icon," very much like Prince and, the more I think about it now, Bowie (the poster child is Zappa). These are people we really want to be icons because of their sheer quality. There are dozens of jazz artists in this group (Coltrane, Gillespie, Ellington, Holiday, Fitzgerald, Miles, Bird) but the only actual jazz "icon" is probably Louie Armstrong.
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