Monday, September 08, 2003
I'm not afraid of post-punk - I've been listening to Wire all weekend...
I can see Mark's point a bit better now he's framed it (he's not saying the knackered vocals of Lumidee are the only good thing about "Never Leave You" [and yes it would be horrendous if Beyoncé sang it - doubly so if she did her faux-sexualised Bond-girl dance routine all over the video like she does on "Baby Boy" {this time with no shoes! for double-sexiness!}]), but even so I'm still concerned about the inevitability with which post-punk is trotted out as a genesis point, influence, staging post. It's like 1996 all over again only instead of The Beatles and The Small Faces it's Wire or PiL or whoever who are being mythologised. People who can't sing have been making wonderful pop music since pop music began. People who can't sing have been singing since singing began. I guess in a sense then I am afraid of post-punk, afraid of it becoming a new musical monarchy, a new standard, a new heirarchy, even if I'm not afraid of the actual music. I don't like anybody who insists it was ever better in the past becasuet hat invalidates both now and the future, and although that's not what people are doing they are setting up others to do so if they are creating a moment when everything seems to have to be framed in the context of its relationship to something else (one specific thing).
9/08/2003 12:18:00 am
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