Monday, March 3, 2025

 


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  1. How recent is the quote? It's a superficial 180 from how she presented it during/immediately after punk, but it might be more honest about how she actually thought

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    1. I'm not sure - this was pretty much her position on punk rock from the mid-1980s onwards, when she'd left ostentatiously behind "childish things" like pop and was writing for glossy magazines and newspapers. A properly adult attitude to and use of music, she averred, would be to consider it as no more than an aural After Dinner mint: a smooth sophisto soundtrack to relaxation or seduction. This was in reference to the superiority of Sade and that kind of thing to all forms of rock music. But I think this particular quote is much more recent than that - I just came across it floating on social media or the internet.

      The Burchill quote actually pairs well with a punk era quote from someone else that I have been planning to use as part of the sporadic 'antitheatricality and rock' series. So this may pop up again rather soon.

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