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@Tarpit, it's true what you say about the common opinion on Reggae, but it's also a genre that 99% of people think is just Bob Marley and a couple of others. They know those ones and they're fine with it.

This is an absolutely amazing album. Period!

I swear I have never seen it, and from the comments and discussions, the absence is indeed grave. The problem is not only in the management of nuclear energy (rather than from Iran, it gives me chills to think that I risk having a nuclear power plant again just an hour away from my home. Caorso-Brescia is an hour's drive on the highway. Let's also take into account the fact that the waste from active plants in the 1980s has NEVER been managed!). It's in the idea of states and governments that are increasingly militarized, of wars that continue to be fought, and armies that are becoming richer and more powerful (the increase in military spending in this sense speaks VERY CLEARLY, everywhere). The apocalypse is not just a bomb that destroys everything, but also tanks roaming through bombed cities that they call "peacekeeping missions."

A good review of an artist I've often heard mentioned by others but have never seriously sought out or listened to. Is this the right time?

There is no male or female perspective; if that were the case, we would be ruined! There are only people's perspectives. All this debate makes me reflect, and it's not about Marilyn Monroe but about one word: misogyny. It's a concept we all underestimate. It's a component that is very strong in society and among men, even if it's often unconscious. At certain moments, even I behave in a misogynistic way (and sometimes we call it a joke. See, words are important). We are used to defining the superiority of the "male" almost a priori. We often justify crude comments about presumed beauty, considering that in the end, we always praise ONE beauty: the telegenic one. Society is misogynistic, and often we keep this mode of thinking and living alive. Thus, we think in stereotypical structures (it seems paradoxical, but it's true that in some contexts we criticize them and then in others, we are the first promoters). We have become desensitized; this is very serious.

@Tarpit, as long as certain genres are considered just the stuff of 2-3 well-known names, it will always be this way.

A certainly interesting relative but not as dazzling and epochal as "Il Male." Still, thanks to Michele Serra and all those people who were part of it (I, Punisher, if I were you, would simply be proud to have had a single cartoon or satirical text published).

"but the wrinkles on the neck - something I notice as a woman - reveal the impending old age..." thinking about it today, they all look so stretched that it’s as if they were playing tug-of-war with their faces. Allan Grant must have had those photos as a nightmare for a long time; I feel bad for him because it’s not his fault.

@Panic, I’ll repeat: the whole woman-image discourse in the case of Marilyn Monroe doesn’t matter to me at all. As I wrote above. I’m talking about a photo and what’s depicted in it (and you agree with me on the subject of the photo).

@Panic, Marylin the mother of all dolls? It could be, but not here! Not in this photo! There's no erotic charge or any belittlement of the person. On the contrary. A doll poses sideways with her hair a bit like this and fingers near her mouth as if she wants to nibble on her nails? I don't think so. Who knows where she's looking, who knows where her mind is. A doll (see aforementioned Belen before football matches) looks at you up close and shows you a little bit (just enough) of her breasts. To me, she just seems like a person lost in thought, who cares if her name is Marylin Monroe or if she’s a student named Barbara sitting on a regional train to Milan where she studies.