Fuck You, Art

So, on the recommendation of Pitchforkmedia.com, I recently got a hold of a few Xiu Xiu tracks off their new album Fabulous Muscles. Upon listening to it, I could only wonder if this entire album is one huge fucking joke.

"Support Our Troops Oh! (Black Angels Oh!)" is a minimalist nightmare of loud feedback, depraved, unintelligent mutterings, discordant violin swells and industrial clangings.

"Did you know you were going to shoot of-off the top of a four-year-old girl's head and look across her car seat down into her skull and see into her throat. And did you know that her dad might say to you 'Please sir, may I take her body home?' Oh wait, you totally did know that that would happen because you're a jock who's too stupid and too greedy and too unmotivated to do anything else but still be the biggest and still do whatever other people tell you to do. You did it to still be a winner."

Oh! Shocking! Political! It's a pity that these words are neither smart nor insightful. How many troops go into battle wanting to kill small children? It's a job. It's a shitty job. For many people the army is the only way to get out of their dead-end life in their poor midwestern town, to support their families. Not everyone can sit in an air-conditioned studio, mumbling meaningless statements into a microphone, and market it to idiotic, pretentious, pseudo-intellectual hipsters. Jamie Stewart, frontman of this band, isn't a genius. He's one of those mindless, robotic left-wingers, spouting faux-controversial phrases who give all the other liberals bad names.

That's what I hate about music these days. On one side of the spectrum, you have vacuous, overprocessed, glitzy drivel. On the other side, you have fucking ridiculous, discordant and affected absolute shit. I hate post-modernism. I hate experimentalism. I hate contrived intellectualism. I hate political music that doesn't have anything intelligent to say. But most of all, I hate the people who are taken in by these stupid gimmicks.

Listening to: "Little Wing" by Jimi Hendrix