Manic Street Preachers, you’ve officially killed Rock. Once you were the agitprop band of the 80s and 90s, now you’re on X Factor New Zealand, playing to a crowd that really doesn’t know who you are.
Rock’s dead. Manics, you killed it
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X Factor: Minions, Manics and a Gap
There were some fantastic moments on last night’s episode of The X Factor. The minions from Despicable Me 2 had a bit of a sing-song, there were cute kids who had no clue why they were there, and The Manic Street Preachers performed a great song.
Education: How the Public Feels
Adults do not think they are doing a very good job of teaching their children about the facts of life: 69% of 1,015 Americans polled for Time last week by Yankelovich, Clancy, Shulman* said parents are not doing as much as they should to educate their children about sex; 39% of the parents who were polled admit they have had “frank and open” discussions about sex with their teenagers only a few times or not at all. Those questioned overwhelmingly support sex-education courses in school, and 47% of them said they wished they had been better informed about sex when they were teenagers
Why Scandals Hit Celebrity Preachers
Juanita Bynum’s story may read like soap opera, but her travails are a reminder of the longtime magnetism between celebrity Pentecostal preachers and scandal.