Indiealism (Indie Central CCLXII)

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Op vrijdag 28 juli 2017 20:43 schreef EP3 het volgende:
Ik heb er maar een EP'tje van gemaakt. Goed te doen, zo. Dikke 8.

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There is something exquisitely annoying about a person who tells you something you already know in a way that is faffily manufactured, slickly produced and assumes that this almost pleasantly mundane thought would never have occurred to you without their 'help'. It is particularly, grimly annoying because it reveals that they do not have the imagination or the good manners to realise that you have the same ability to notice faux-meaningful things; their energy is used up, they’re exhausted, by being cynical, pompous, defensive and inordinately pleased with themselves. They have wiped you out. You don’t exist, except maybe as someone who can (a) appreciate their deathly dull insights or (b) fuck off because you just don’t get it.

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When someone writes lyrics this bad, and imagines they are good, it's because they are underestimating you, the listener. They either don't trust you to understand, or they don't trust themselves to communicate, or both. Consider this paragraph from author George Saunders, in an article about how writers write: “You [the writer] make a rarefied place… and then welcome the reader in. She can’t believe that you believe in her that much; that you are so confident that the subtle nuances of the place will speak to her; she is flattered. And they do speak to her. [Writing and editing] is ultimately about imagining that your reader is as humane, bright, witty, experienced and well intentioned as you, and that, to communicate intimately with her, you have to maintain the state, through revision, of generously imagining her. You revise your reader up, in your imagination, with every pass. You keep saying to yourself: 'No, she’s smarter than that. Don’t dishonour her with that lazy prose or that easy notion.'” Now consider that what these songs, what these lyrics do is the opposite. They do not welcome you in, they do not imagine you are humane, bright, witty, experience or well intentioned. They use lazy prose. Arcade Fire think you're an idiot.