We Started Nothing
Serious music is for chumps. That seems to
be pretty much what these two are saying to the world. Are they
trying to take the piss out of us (as those wacky Brits might
say)? It certainly seems that their tongue-in-cheek approach
to sugary pop music might be a direct assault to its listeners,
just daring to them to like it. It’s akin to that old Groucho
Marx saying “I would not join any club that would have someone
like me for a member.” But in this case they’re the cool kids
purposely making throw away pop that they know the hipsters
will grab hook line and sinker despite its relative lack of
weight and legitimacy in an otherwise depth-obsessed culture.
Or, are they so cool that they’re doubling down that
their life-affirming, harrowingly catchy party music will bring
in a whole new crowd of young tastemakers that will make ironic
music the new cool? I’ll never know their plot, but I do know
that in "That’s Not My Name” and “Shut Up and Let Me Go”
they have two terrifically commercial and memorable throwback,
Blondie-like hits that the girls
with the giant glasses will be bopping to for years to come. |
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