we are everything now as we are everything now as we are everything now

Douglas Gordon "Self-Portrait as Kurt Cobain, as Andy Warhol, as Myra Hindley, as Marilyn Monroe"

David Bowie "The Next Day" design by Jonathan Barnbrook

Matthew Herbert disse-o aqui:

I still feel that there is too much music in the world. I'm not convinced that we need to make any more music. I read this statistic that said 75% of music on iTunes has never been downloaded once. It's depressing, but it also makes you think that we should stop making music until we listen to it all, and then we should start again. We're in a bit of a muddle about the function of music, and why we're making it, and what we expect from our music. I mean, surely, everything has been said about love already by now. Presumably everything has been said about war already. It feels like people think they have a right to make music or express themselves in a certain way. I think you have a right to express yourself, but I don't necessarily think that there's automatically a right that people should be expected to listen.

Não podia concordar mais.

É isto que sinto quando ouço Savages, Django Django, Daughter, The Vaccines, etc...
Tudo contribui para a saturação. Entre os olhos pesados e o bocejo.

A rever. Até lá.

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Creio haver uma ligação entre "New York, New York" de Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five e "New York, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down" gravada pelos LCD Soundsystem. Haverá pelo menos um ou vários elos perdidos. A primeira é génese, a urgência, um aviso do que está para vir; a segunda, irrita-me por ser despedida, num mundo referencial urbano pós-hype, pós 11 de Setembro, romantismo na decadência, sedução.
A fera foi domada.

É como se a cidade tivesse ficado desprovida de todas as suas referências nesses 24 anos que separam as duas canções. Cidade diluída.
Pelo menos para mim.
A rever.
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