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clearly this needed to happen.
There is an ABSOLUTELY unforgivable funk-instrumental on the Arctic Monkeys EP, called "Chun Li's Spinning Bird Kick," and as far as I can tell the rest of the album sounds like early Strokes outtakes, with more...cockrock solos?...I mean, yeah, I'm sure it's better than the new Richard Ashcroft record, but?
Going to IASPM on Thursday to give a paper on art-school trained pop musicians and gender performance, riffing on "disruption" and the performance of failure as a way for the folks to challenge performance conventions. my tempting fate?
Arctic Monkeys prove something about the British music buying public. I'm not sure what, but they do. That and they must have a media machine behind them given all of the airplay for the I bet you look good on the dancefloor song, cause I mean really, Ladies, I bet y'all do. The lyrics are 50 pence quality. (That being fifty cent's grime alter ego.)
Also, that said, oh wise one, has anyone ever connected Onyx with the true start of grimy sound, or is that just too obvious?
"Now everybody wanna sound Grriiimy (yeah I know)"