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Posted by:	ukpaul 05:39 am EDT 08/15/14
In reply to:	re: Idiot reviewer calling Andrew Lloyd Webber "eurotrash" - ukpaul 05:22 am EDT 08/15/14

Eurotrash ususally refers to a person rather than a thing, this person being (as I say) hedonistic and morally questionable. They have a penchant for high fashion and are consumeristoc and are therefore looked down on by hipsters. Looking up the term it appears as though there are two totally different meanings on different sides of the Atlantic. Not quite as embarrssing as the rubber/eraser issue but adding to the incomprehension of one to the other.

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Posted by:	ryhog 11:47 am EDT 08/15/14
In reply to:	To add.... - ukpaul 05:39 am EDT 08/15/14

I don't really see the differentiation in meaning-what you describe is substantially the same as the sense I have of it, except that here we describe the people in terms of certain clubs and restaurants or shopping streets whereas I think in Europe we think of them more in terms of the current visitors frequenting Cap d'Antibes or such. I don't think there are Brits ever included in that-it is really a continental thing-and I think that perhaps the London subgenre is decidedly distinguishable-Guy Pelly would be no one's idea of eurotrash. All that said, the point I was making was that NONE of this has anything to do with the theatre, the opera, directors et al, and it is really a bizarre misappropriation of a term that I feel pretty confident has no general application.

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