The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.
charli xcx makes music for people who want to do cocaine, not people who actually do it, the same way vampire weekend makes music for people who wish they went to prep school not ones who actually did. art is always aspirational
Please stop acting surprised. A right-wing populist being elected when the people of a country are barely living paycheck to paycheck is, historically speaking, the most predictable thing that could have happened.
If BRAT is meant to capture the experience of a raucous night out the remix album is definitely the wistful moment when the party ends and you’re on the way home lamenting going back to real life