Then again, maybe it's not a problem that so much pop-music scholarship sounds conspicuously uncool.
Back to the age of Johnny Carson and the Borscht Belt, aggressive misogyny has been a central ingredient to standup, a phenomenon that was difficult to speak openly about because it would make any woman who tried to do so sound uncool, like a prig and a censor like the comedy-killer, not the comic.
To most young people, the idea of inviting both their favorite D.J.'s and government ministers to the same party would sound distinctly uncool.
You have to painstakingly explain that you are really down, yo, and have been from Day One (well, OK, since 2006) with D.I.T.C., Mobb Depp, Gang Starr, Beatnuts, Group Home, Tribe etc. (but only ever their first two albums at most, make sure you say that or you could sound totally uncool).
You have to painstakingly explain that you are really down, and have been from day (well, since 2006), with D.I.T.C., Mobb Depp, Gang Starr, Beatnuts, Group Home, Tribe etc (but only ever their first two albums at most, make sure you say that or you could sound totally uncool).
There's nothing worse than thinking you hung up and then regaling your buddies with the message you just left, burping, yelling at your brother, or some other dumb thing to make you sound totally uncool.
But their opinion flies in the face of detractors of the scheme, who argue that the most disaffected teenagers are never going to sign up to something that sounds so chronically uncool.
I realize how uncool this sounds, especially considering I was 38 years old at the time, but though we're miles away and worlds apart, mom always understands the scrapes I get myself into, and the best way to get myself out.
They sound both ridiculously uncool and ridiculously talented, playing the sort of thing that people will cling to and hail as "proper" music.
I know that might sound, like, totes uncool, but there are a whole lot of things that babies do that you just can't get away with as an adult.
