{"id":368,"date":"2004-02-27T10:02:21","date_gmt":"2004-02-27T15:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2004\/02\/doin_it_in_the_road_danger_mou\/"},"modified":"2004-02-27T10:02:21","modified_gmt":"2004-02-27T15:02:21","slug":"doin_it_in_the_road_danger_mou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2004\/02\/doin_it_in_the_road_danger_mou\/","title":{"rendered":"DOIN&#8217; IT IN THE ROAD: Danger Mouse Signifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I weren&#8217;t nursing my sick 3-year-old, I&#8217;d be all over this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiphopmusic.com\/archives\/000430.html\" target=\"_blank\">GREY ALBUM<\/A> controversy. So let me toss up a few notes: Danger Mouse is an ingenious DJ, not quite an artist, but the record gives you a LOT to listen to, and a lot to think about. He should be celebrated, not persecuted. Because of &#8220;Grey Tuesday,&#8221; the music has turned into a cause, and there have been a lot worse recordings turned into causes (remember AS NASTY AS THEY WANNA BE?). The flaws are less creative than aesthetic: the melding of Jay-Z and the Beatles doesn&#8217;t really tell you anything new about either, except, perhaps, that the Beatles are unjustly underused beat engines. If anything, it makes me appreciate Jay-Z more, on one of the few rap albums that had me craning my neck to hear more on first listening (except for the typical rap caveat: bitches, hos, macho preening, etc). Like a lot of rap dudes I admire, I look forward to his ADULT (as in GROWN UP) records. And the whole exercise will get you thinking about alchemies you&#8217;d LIKE to hear: how about REVOLVER adorned by Erik B. and Rakim? Or Eminem rapping over LET IT BLEED? You&#8217;ll notice rapper&#8217;s aren&#8217;t in a hurry to dress up DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, are they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I weren&#8217;t nursing my sick 3-year-old, I&#8217;d be all over this GREY ALBUM controversy. So let me toss up a few notes: Danger Mouse is an ingenious DJ, not quite an artist, but the record gives you a LOT to listen to, and a lot to think about. He should be celebrated, not persecuted. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}