The original joke, that it isn't permanent, just permanent, well, I stand by it as reasonable science communication — and that it got
a rise out of somebody, that's also a sign of effective communication.
A smarter film about country music would cast the would - be cowpunk as a Jack White - type,
somebody who would encourage the aging legend to reject Nashville values and make an all -
out roots album (similar to Loretta Lynn's «Van Lear
Rose», produced by The White Stripes frontman himself), which would add creative tension to the preexisting atmosphere
of marital discord between Kelly and her commercially - minded husband.