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Yeah, but it's practically impossible to write a mature, cogent response to something that essentially fails even to be bothered to engage with the subject in the first place, cf the recent Keane/Gene thread, this one... Obviously it's impractical at best to write about music in any meaningful sense without being subjective. However, too many times bands/artists the writer doesn't like are dismissed using language that implies that the writer's subjective opinion has an objective basis in fact. This is done because the writer feels comfortable that the majority of his readers will agree with him, or at least, not disagree sufficiently to rebutt his comments - it's coming from the safety of what's considered to be a shared consensus. In short, it's a safe, lazy, under-examined position to take, the kind the writer would be up in arms about were someone to perform the same safe, lazy, under-examined hatchet job on someone he admired and respected.
Take the 'pop v. proper music' argument - your recent excellent review of the Annie album on Plan B is advertised as another skirmish in a war against precisely that kind of safe, lazy, under-examined entrenched opinion that only music made with bits of wood can possibly be valid. How many times have I heard you rail, yea verily unto the stars themselves, that this kind of indie-boy mentality needs kicking into touch before we all become worse than Tory (I paraphrase you badly, match)?
Anyway. The video to 'Something Beautiful' was the result of a competition for his fans to audition to be in the new video, whereby the auditions were filmed and the whole thing became the video. If it's a comment on reality-pop shows, it's certainly an affectionate one.
What I actually said about 'Come Undone' was that it "is very likely to be about his unhealthy incestuous love/hate relationship with the media/press/paparazzi", not that it's "about his love/hate feelings about being in the public eye" - the difference is that 'Come Undone' appears to be a song sung to the media, not just the usual Bobsy Billiams mantra about how he actually isn't all that happy, can't get a girlfriend who likes him for him, and he's on anti-depressants, thanks for asking. Oh, and the razorblades and mirrors line? HE's a recovering coke n' booze addicted pop star living in LA. His experience may be slightly different to your own, and the mataphor's not that clunky.
I must reiterate that I'm not a massive Bobsy Billiams fan. It just tends to activate my dormant thug gene when I see what appears to be socionormative bully-boy behaviour, even when it's translated to a pop-culture figure who probably doesn't even exist...
Oh, and Wedding is so jealous of our Bobsy. Look at his post above. See how he's trying to be all amenable, through his clenched buttocks and gritted earlobes, and failing, failing so BAD, seeming all stiff and offended instead. He might as well have a moustache. |
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