Friday, May 25, 2007
Two Pressing Questions For Our Times
Is the irony of the Kaiser Chiefs, one of the most identikit bands ever, releasing a song which is distinctly average even by their low standards, called 'Everything Is Average Nowadays', intentional or not? If it is intentional, does this mean that the Kaiser Chiefs are ingeniously subverting the dominant norms of contemporary corporate music-making, or just wankers?
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Wankers, I'm afraid.
I rather suspected that.
I told you they were smug bastards when they first appeared, but did anyone listen? now look what's happened. They're not Panic!at the bloody disco or any of their ilk though, it could be worse (not to excuse them)
Either I have mostly been spared from panic!atthedisco, or I have managed to totally erase them from my memory. Either way, I am not going to try and find out what I am (not) missing.
As Cirdan says.
It's interesting to see the development of your style: you're becoming more 'real world' and thus old.
Personally, it's quite refreshing!
Actually, I have found some of Panic!'s (what are the rules for apostrophisation there?) lyrics marginally ironic in a sense, so I'll have to disagree with el.
Smugness is today's byword for 'me', so...what else can we conclude?
Assuming you have time (in between times of ), did the 20th century post 1970 ever throw up any seminal philosophers and/or have any come out of the woodwork since the turn of that century to this?
Thank you.
Scanlon's moral philosophy is very impressive, I think. I don't really know what's going on elsewhere in the discipline.
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