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2012 or It’s the End of the World as We Know it (And I Feel…shrugs)

By Decoy Spoon ⋅ December 19, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Within Korea (and outside) I think PSY may find with time that the exposure (and its attendant irony) will defuse any political/social motivations behind the song and render it the exact opposite: a total glamorisation and endorsement and validation of the very things he sought to ridicule. Everyone LOVES “Gangnam Style” = it’s totally cool to be Gangnam Style. Oppan Frankenstein…

The Cure – Disintegration (1989) • Nite Jewel – Good Evening (2009) • Rodriguez – Cold Fact (1970)

By Decoy Spoon ⋅ July 12, 2009 ⋅ 5 comments

This is still hands-down my favourite Cure album. I say ‘still’ because back in my high school days, The Cure were a big fave band for me and my mates. We dug their whole catalogue, but it was great timing that we should witness the release of Disintegration, because after their (partial) dissolution in the wake of Pornography (1982), Robert Smith directed the music toward a more pop-orientated sound, with the hit singles “Lets Go to Bed”, “The Walk” and “The Lovecats”…