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Art/Literary - Slang | | English term or phrase: dreams of the lifestyle | Me again, with another hip-hop-related question. I have tagged it as "slang", but it could very well be plain English and I might not be aware of that.
Context: Hip-hop is a complex and apparently contradictory phenomenon, i.e. it glorifies big money while denouncing exploitation, poverty and violence.
"[Hip-hop] remains true to itself as an underground movement and a multinational, multi-billion dollar industry in the same instant. [...] Newsstands contain shelves of mass market glossy magazines that document **excessive dreams of the lifestyle**, while across the street a guy is selling hip-hop literature from a makeshift table."
Any suggestion appreciated. Thanks :-) |
|   Adele OliveriKudoZ activityQuestions: 204 (none open) ( 13 closed without grading) Answers: 1656
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| | English translation:used literally | Explanation:
I understand this phrasing to mean mags like Architectural Digest that show pictures of homes nobody lives in (at least not with kids!) and that are out of reach of most people while the guy selling hip-hop is more in touch with what people really can afford.
Not really slang, imo.
My thought from the USA.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2008-10-30 17:56:48 GMT)
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Ahh, but there is the contradiction. Hip hop is providing a roadmap out of poverty. The other mags just show the final destination with no real hope of achieving it. So it just remains a 'dream' from the mags on the newsstands. |
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