PrintJune 29, 2013
Paula Deen, Kid Rock, and Walmart: A Discourse on the Unprincipled Businessman
A long while ago, while I was in college, I remember reading an interview in Maxim Magazine which featured Kid Rock. I remember at the time finding him interesting -- a man openly and fondly talking about crack-dealing and prostitution and such, a long-haired wild-man chasing his own lusts through an American wasteland, an entertainer of incontinent and imbecilic youths (such as I was) made rich and famous not by virtue, but by vice.
What I remember most vividly about the interview, though, was a portion in which he was asked if the title of his then-new album was a sexual innuendo, to which he replied, "that *expletive* don't fly at Walmart." "A businessman!" I thought. "Here's a man whose love is music, who revels in revelry and feels comfortable amongst the pimps and prostitutes -- yet here he markets his work not entirely according to who he is, but according to what he can get!" And years later, in reflection these last few days, I've come to realize...(Read Full Article)
