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Musical Metaphores: Religious vs Military/Industrial - June 20th, 2005 [ « ] [ » ]

The play.com newsletter informs me that the new A-Teens record is called Dance Ordinance not a bad title I guess but it would have been better if it was Dance Ordnance. Military imagery goes much better with pop/rock/dance music (what kind of thing do A-Teens do anyway? Boy band pop I suspect by the name). Claiming religious significance for a pop record allways seems pompous and arrogant (God is a DJ boo! Infact Faithless in general boo! Pink not so bad but you still get a boo!) whereas military metaphores seem modern and loud and have scope for satire (MIA yay! Postpunk yay! KLF yay! Bomb the Bass yay).

(yeah, yeah I’m sure that you can come up with a million counter examples but this is a weblog, you should go elsewhere if you want well thought out coherent argument)

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