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Peter Gabriel Wants You to Re-Shock the Monkey
PreacherTom writes "The party line for the music industry has been clear: discourage music downloads at all cost. However, singer Peter Gabriel is taking things in a different direction. In order to promote his own label, he is actually encouraging people to not only download his music, but also adapt it into something more modern. In doing so, he actually posted a sample pack of Shock the Monkey consisting of vocals and other pieces of the original multitrack recording. Some in the music business would call this the commercial equivalent of hiring kidnappers to babysit. In actuality, Gabriel is pleased with the results."
Oh, I agree. We know about as more (I'd say even more) about making shitty cartoons than the japanese.
It's in the area of good ones we need catching up.
(BTW, the answer here begins in the attitude. Here, it's cartoons, as in primarily for kids, there it is an accepted medium for all kinds of entertainment.)
On the off chance that your question is a serious one, I'll try to explain. The primary difference between American cartoons and Japanese cartoons is, in my opinion at least, the target audience. American society views cartoons as intended for children. Most of the cartoons produced here in the states are simple and devoid of anything that might offend parents. You will never see Disney (or any other domestic cartoon studio) release anything like "Ninja Scroll", "Slayer", or "Demon City Shinjuku". They're not child-safe. (Remember cartoons are for children.)
This isn't the case with the Japanese cartoons, which is why most fans of anime that I've personally met refer to it as anime instead of Japanese cartoons. The material will range from silly (Photon, Dragon Half) to serious (Jin-Roh, Ghost in the Shell, Last Exile). There are also scores of romantic comedies usually these involve a love triangle of some sort, i.e. Lum, Ranma 1/2, Vandread, Love Hina. There is something for just about any interest imaginable. (La Blue Girl comes to mind. Ick.) This isn't to say that there isn't anime intended for children because there is. It just isn't the focus of the genre.
In short, anime doesn't walk on eggshells.
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