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Come 2016

come 2016 or 2015 or 2017 whenever china’s economy exceeds that of the united states (the year disputed circa. 2016) and there is no longer any dispute over who will be calling the shots in the world from there on out one has to wonder--- having spent any time in america--- or more importantly/specifically new orleans & detroit city & dallas & pittsburg & nyc & kansas city & atlanta & chicago & la--- will there be chinese james brown? a new “hardest working man in show business” whose tunes fill the ears of those new most important cities--- be it hong kong off the mainland, or shanghai, beijing, cheng du, hang zhou, qingdao, xi’an, taipei, dali, ningbo or quangzhou--- will there be a new man who bearing the purest chinese soul, pumping it out in mandarin or cantonese? will he be pop-locking as the most perfect popper dancing the night away please audience from one side of the globe to another broadcasted in better-than-broadband (whatever comes next)--- from iphone to ipads to the next most virtual replacement--- no doubt we will all be dancing with him singing the new anthems of our age--- “?????!”

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