![]() It's not perfect - any chart where Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Missy Elliott peak only at No. It's a voracious creature, built to absorb whatever medium is delivering music to the masses at any given time. ![]() The better question is this: How is it that, half a century later, we still follow a chart called the Hot 100 to measure which songs are dominating our earbuds, our streets, our beaches, our dancefloors, our American lives? We don't listen to transistor radios anymore, or buy seven-inch 45-RPM vinyl (not in quantity, anyway). If he'd known in 1958 what a music video was, he'd have shot one with ladies in various states of undress, too.) (Trust: 28-year-old Ricky Nelson had swag. So, yeah, gender politics in pop music have scarcely evolved in a half-century- plus ça change and all that.
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