What is Rolling Stone?
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A metaphor for something that is always moving or changing. This phrase has many connections to music: It's the name of a magazine that focuses on pop culture and music, it's the name of a band, and it's a lyric in a song by Bob Dylan. These three things may be connected. A possible origin of this phrase is the old saying, "a rolling stone gathers no moss."
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A person who likes to move often or is unwilling to settle down in one place or with one person or both. This phrase is based on the old saying "a rolling stone gathers no moss."
"Papa was a rolling stone, my son.
Wherever he laid his hat was his home.
(And when he died) All he left us was alone."
-THE TEMPTATIONS
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A horrible corporate ad-fuck of a magazine that has reviewers who know almost nothing about music. While sometimes they will give high ratings to albums that are worthy, they are often afraid to give shitty pop and pop-punk (Britney Spears, Avril Lavigne, Good Charlotte, Simple Plan etc...) anything under 2 or 3 stars. WTF is that?!?! Not to mention all the crappy rap that they have the nerve to call "art" (not all rap is bad but you wouldn't know that from their reviews) They also take an MTV-esque whiny liberal stance in their politics section (I myself am a strong liberal but I find their articles extremely biased playing into Hollywood style "limousine liberalism")
In the end their just another glorifier (along with radio, the RIAA and MTV) of bad music in America.
Do yourself a favor and support Indie artists and those with actual talent, not top 40 pop/pop-puck/emo/rap songs.
I will say some Rolling Stone's music reviews are unbiased and dead-on, however the majority are complete bullshit.
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A magazine that started off being cool, in the 60s, and is now a bi-weekly trove of bullshit extolling rap "music" as the next frontier in art.
I cancled my subscription to Rolling Stone after they compared Eminem to Elvis.
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A "magazine" of advertisements, with the occasional article of value. A great example of corporate America using the entertainment industry as puppets to try and peddle their bullshit wares.
"Fuck Rolling Stone magazine."
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A biweekly collection of glossy advertisements that sells for $3.95.
Rolling Stone exists to market products.
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An over-biased magazine that obsesses more on politics than music and movies. They also apparently are extremely shallow, since when they drew a picture of Bush and gave him brown eyes when they are actually blue, which means that if you have brown eyes you're "as worthless as Bush," and if you have blue eyes they change them to be intense like in Bob Dylan's picture and changin them from navy to crystal blue. They also hate the south and tear them down, yet ready to sell a subscription to the "rednecks" in an instant. After Katrina, even though it was domiantly black citizens, they only paid attention to the blacks and ignored the white group since there were white people who lost their home, too. We're talking about a group of very shallow, close-minded, hypocritical people here.
Rolling Stone says they hate capitalism, but are ready to suck your money out for their company in a minute.
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