History Of Rock 'n' Roll In Ten Songs - Plot & Excerpts
On January 21, at Barack Obama’s second inauguration, following James Taylor’s rendition of “America the Beautiful,” Kelly Clarkson’s of “My Country ’Tis of Thee,” a strong inaugural address, a poem by Richard Blanco, and a benediction by the Reverend Luis León, she closed the ceremonies with “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Less than two weeks later, on February 3, she took the halftime show at the Super Bowl. She was inescapable, a pop image so overwhelming that the person inside of it seemed not unreal but beyond reality, and beyond criticism. When the New Yorker columnist George Packer wrote that her Super Bowl performance left him “a bit cold—a highly polished combination of corporate marketing and pole dancing,” the scent of failure came off the words. You could feel that he had demeaned himself, not her.These are official historical events, now folded into the official American story. As they happened, they echoed endlessly off the sides of the American mountain.
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