Comments on: Intergenerational Love

By: Editor’s Note 7.1.2007: On Asian American Music « Ninja Pants

Editor’s Note 7.1.2007: On Asian American Music « Ninja Pants — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 02:42:43 +0000

[...] Sunday, July 1st, 2007 in Pat Miller, APA, Music by tokenminorities Eugene of Boston Progress Radio put up a neat post called “Intergenerational Love” (it’s not what it sounds like!). Read it here. [...]

By: giles

giles — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:42:39 +0000

yeah tough to categorize. bc while i have a special place in my heart for API artists – especially those i know – i also bump music from non-API artists often – especially locals like the Foundation Movement, Perceptionists, so on.

Also, as much as I support my people – some folks are straight up just dicks. i met ______, and s/he was a total asshole. of course, i won’t put it out there like that, and in public will continue to support his/her work – but as a person, I don’t care if i never see him/her again.

By: delia

delia — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:36:39 +0000

God, I hope that when I’m old enough to be someone’s grandma that I’m still that active and in touch with what’s important.

I do just want to throw out there that “Asian American music” is still some mysterious category to me. I mean, there are folks out there that have achieved mainstream success (as seen in Giles’ post about mainstream artists that we forget are Asian American). Are these folks not in the category of Asian American because a lot o them are happa? Or is it just that we’re rooting for the underdogs? Or is there something different between the success of say apl.de.ap and Native Guns?

Just my 2 cents.