The Sophisticates #21

This week:

  • Adapting Books into Books (1:14)
  • Being Blind in a Paperless World (13:36)
  • The Future of Music (23:57)

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Rihanna is often described as a ‘manufactured’ pop star, because she doesn’t write her songs, but neither did Sinatra or Elvis. She embodies a song in the way an actor inhabits a role—and no one expects the actor to write the script.
- John Seabrook, “The Song Machine,” The New Yorker, March 26, 2012

Rihanna is often described as a ‘manufactured’ pop star, because she doesn’t write her songs, but neither did Sinatra or Elvis. She embodies a song in the way an actor inhabits a role—and no one expects the actor to write the script.

- John Seabrook, “The Song Machine,” The New Yorker, March 26, 2012