| Author |
Message |
mjp
Username: mjp
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 10:18 am: | |
So the world's two most anarchic rebellious pop icons reveal their true colours: one sells butter, the other car insurance. Dear oh dear. |
mjp
Username: mjp
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 10:39 am: | |
Maybe Iggy is doing a James Cagney, as in Angels with Dirty Faces - showing those young punks how they need to go straight, get a home and learn to live an honest good life with clean noses, Cagney turning cowardly at last at the sight of the electric chair into which he is about to be strapped, and no longer the hero and the gangster role model ... Or maybe it's money. (Are you anybody?) They seem to have a device at last for catching the skunk punk; just paint the bars with leopard spots and make the bait cheesier than cheese itself and in hops the hyper ferret-like weirdo. |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 11:29 am: | |
Everyone's gotta have a retirement plan! |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 5:31 pm: | |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX1rkx1bDTs
Lydon: Californian real estate millionaire, married into a German publishing fortune, hasn't written or sung anything worth a second listen in donkey's years - does anyone care? Subtext: eat this product, and you'll be fat, too! Just sad.
Iggy always was a Republican, so this isn't quite the sell-out we might think. And at least it's got some style:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYnydYrZPp8
Subtext: who'd insure me, anyway?
We've been spared, though: imagine what Ian Curtis might have done ("Love Will Tear Us Apart? Not at H. Samuel! When you see the price of their wedding rings you'll say - I DO!") or Robert Plant ("There's a lady who's sure - Bodyform: every time ...")
And there must be others. Hundreds, in fact ... |
mjp
Username: mjp
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 9:47 am: | |
John Lydon's not that good a lyricist; gets poorer and sillier by the decade. Voice gets worse; reedier. A terrible prima donna. But Iggy is still going strong; but the thing I am wondering is, what am I now supposed to make of some of my favourite Iggy lyrics, like "Something something .. we're not huge mainstream stars/ but anyway, we're really what we are / We got Main Street eyes, under funny televison skies ..." "TV insults me freely ..." and so forth, when there he is, mainstream star, on tv insulting me freely - ? I am not so much criticising, as wondering. |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 10:18 am: | |
Ah, they all turn into the thing they hate. Which isn't such a big problem because by the time they get there they're probably entirely indifferent to whatever they believed as young men.
As to what we're supposed to make of it: I guess that's *our* problem. |
alex
Username: alex
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 3:08 pm: | |
It's a shame G.G. Allin is no longer with us. He could have done toilet paper.
And then there's:
"If you don't want to fuck me baby, baby why not try Viapro, now exclusively available from Superdrug." |
|