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re: Idiot reviewer calling Andrew Lloyd Webber "eurotrash"

Posted by: ryhog 12:18 am EDT 08/15/14
In reply to: re: Idiot reviewer calling Andrew Lloyd Webber "eurotrash" - Chromolume 11:53 pm EDT 08/14/14

wow. that's a stretch. I really don't see what that has to do with eurotrash in its accepted meaning. I'm not opposed to expanding word usage, but this one really seems at odd with the conventional meaning which is very prominent, so in that sense I fear the way some people seem to be using it in connection with the performing arts is way confusing.


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re: Idiot reviewer calling Andrew Lloyd Webber "eurotrash"

Posted by: Chromolume 12:22 am EDT 08/15/14
In reply to: re: Idiot reviewer calling Andrew Lloyd Webber "eurotrash" - ryhog 12:18 am EDT 08/15/14

I'm confused. What do you consider the "accepted meaning?" As I said, I've really only and exclusively heard the term used in the opera world, never anywhere else. Even the first time I heard the word used, it was in reference to a "concept" opera production of some sort.


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re: Idiot reviewer calling Andrew Lloyd Webber "eurotrash"

Posted by: ryhog 12:51 am EDT 08/15/14
In reply to: re: Idiot reviewer calling Andrew Lloyd Webber "eurotrash" - Chromolume 12:22 am EDT 08/15/14

well, outside of the narrow confines of the performing arts (and I've never really heard it used within those confines but I take your and others' words that it is used in that way), there is a fairly widely used and accepted meaning to the term eurotrash, and it has nothing to do with the usage you are familiar with in opera or that others are apparently familiar with in musical theatre. And that's what I was referring to.


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