European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 30, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Punk s not dead it just smells funny by Evan ram5tad associated press Illy idol May have mellowed bul he s still proud 10 be a Punk it is definitely 10 years since Punk Rock happened. Fora a. In s to bring Back that sort of need or artists to respect heir own rights rather than carelessly throwing them away to a record company or some kind of system they Don t  that Altitude prevents idol from jumping on the bandwagon of political causes that Are sometimes popular with other pop artists and producers i think it s great when people take up a political cause or Charity but i think those groups arc getting away from what they re about he said. The record companies exploit the hell out of those things and use them to ingratiate Tho artist on people rather than people liking to artist for his music. It Lurns out to have Billy idol it one Pun who to attn t Felt Deon cled nothing to do with helping ethiopians. It turns out to help the record companies. That s who realty gets led idol accepts the Punk roots he secured m generation x Wilh Pride. It s fantastic to think that whal we said in 977 is  he said. You can break into Tho music world when there s a stranglehold you can Start new movements and they will keep going. They won t necessarily self destruct oven d Tho original groups did the diff cull thing is to impart the spin thai it had and i was definitely a part of it. Punk Rock in t dead. It just smelts Lunny " one Sera Sera pop goes bilingual byjoe Pareles new York times of music is getting a bilingual education. In recent months Spanish has emerged As a second language Lor pop hits. Pop singers with and without hispanic backgrounds Are dropping Spanish phrases into English language songs among them Madonna s latest no. I singles. La Isla Etonia end who s thai Gill a growing number of performers Are translating songs from English to Spanish and re recording them for an International audience the latest being Suzanne Vega with a Spanish version of her top 10 hit. Luke. And la Bamba. A remake by the los Angeles band los lob Osof the 1959 Ritchie vat ens hit reached no. 1 without a word in English the first song in Spanish to do so in the United states. Mixtures of Spanish and English Are in the air right now said Jose quintans director of the latin american division of a4m records who is supervising a Spanish language version of fragile a song from the forthcoming album by Sling. In my opinion it could work for Bolh american and International markets like Spanish and English lessons Lor both countries. People in latin America hear the English words of the songs and get familiar with the  for musicians record company executives and radio programmers the increase in Spanish lyrics reflects the growing hispanic population in the United Stales and the increasing assimilation of hispanic teen agers and Young adults. A recent estimate by the us. Census Bureau put the Ligure Al 18.6 million hispanic americans with a median age of 25. Where first generation immigrants listened to music in Spanish in traditional styles such As mexican Norino music or puerto rican Bombas and pleas the younger generation is bilingual and americanized although a few words in Spanish can still  a responsive a nod according in a recent article in radio anti records Magazine up to 72 percent of the hispanic audience is bilingual. Younger hispanic performers among them Lisa Lisa top of the charts top pop singles i. Dion t we almost have of All whim ou�n2 herein again Wal Wace 3. 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To make music for the people period said Paul Anthony of full Force Lisa Lisa s producers and songwriters for Lisa the theory is Hal we look Al her As the Queen of Spanish pop and we want to keep thai imagery there she s puerto it can and it s fitting Louse her own  hit arcs Are now becoming one of the largest ethnic groups in the United Stales said Sandra Scheld station manager of Sqq a in Houston the influence of such a big ethnic population is making ils Way into american culture and the younger hispanics Are truly Bicu Tural. They speak English and some Spanish but they keep the old social events and customs Thetie saying i m bilingual and i m an is year old kid growing up in America i listen to Rock n Roll " Scheld s station Aims for Houston s Young hispanic a Ulitin inc by  current top jul Hiis mostly in English with disk jockeys and advert yemenis Hal mix Spanish English and spanglish a format thai has also been used in latin America. Meanwhile for a wider pop audience the acceptance of Spanish lyrics May be part of a cyclical rediscovery of hispanic music from Carmen Miranda in the 1930s to the Rumba raze of the i950 s to latin disco in the 1970s. And according to Joel Webber vice president of artists and repertory for Island records there s some sort of Sitiar keying concept behind this As Well. A lot of people Are beginning to see Spanish As the second language of the  Webber Nas signed Spanish Prince a puerto rican rapper whose next record will have one Side