Mighty Wind

(2003)

RATING:	80%
FORMAT:	DVD

(Image: http://jpkcinemaadventures.wordpress.com)

Because White popular music is so fundamentally awful and willfully anachronistic (witness White claims that Rock and Roll is not dead when it clearly is), it is easy to parody it - as here. Because Whites (unlike Jews, Hindus, Muslims, etc) have lost the connection between the music they create and any recognizable culture; eg, Punk, Heavy Metal, Country & Western, etc, their music wanes in popularity as soon as it waxes according to fashion rather than meaning; revealing a superficial culture with no essence to express nor social meaning to convey.

(Image: http://www.allmovie.com)

The underlying sadness here is that Whites themselves have given-up on their own music and now fixate on anything created by Blacks. Without an agricultural background, the music here has no meaning to a modern, urban audience. Better to let it die, with parodies like this as their eulogy.

(Image: http://www.mattderody.com)

The characterization of this mockumentary is deft, particularly Jane LYNCH and her character’s former porn career, Parker POSEY’s homeless waif reborn, Bob BALABAN’s neurotic Jewish promoter and Ed BEGLEY, Jr’s tv producer mired in the world of US Public Television.

(Image: http://www.amctv.com)

This White Folk Music version of This is Spinal Tap contains far too many laughs to count accurately despite the fact that it offers no real explanation as to White music is so terrible.

Copyright © 2014 Frank TALKER. Permission granted to reproduce and distribute it in any format; provided that mention of the author’s Weblog (http://franktalker5.blogspot.com) is included: E-mail notification requested. All other rights reserved.