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…Or on America. It was hard to tell. People believed that these kids meant what they said, that they were who they portrayed on TV. (Oprah did not approve, although Jello Biafra seemed to understand what the band was doing.)”
According to Sasha Frere Jones, Oprah and Jello Biafra were the two poles of pop culture criticism in 1986.
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…The Oxford English Dictionary cites this as the first published use of the term, along with the lyrics from the Beasties’ 1994 song “Mullet Head”… The OED says that the term was “apparently coined, and certainly popularized, by US hip-hop group the Beastie Boys.”[14] ” #Ihadnoidea #RIPMCA