Dekandez & "Les Nouveaux Riches"

May 04, 2007 18:36

I've been feeling a bit scattered. I'm avoiding certain situations by keeping myself occupied with books and films. At this moment, I'm most severely in the mood for Film Noir, something older and darker and classier and more... removed from the here and now. S got me here this time. We share a love for things from another era, women with class and cool who were far ahead of their times. I've been looking at photographs that worship luxury, decadence. Attractive, though I've always been confliced. The root lies in the past, in having been a TCK. Something inside of me continues to crave these things, wants them, gathers them... Luxury, a certain lifestyle, indulgent and entitled -in return for hard work, mind you, but nonetheless- hedonistic and fun-loving, the sumptuousness, simply being... surrounded by All Things Beautiful. Still understated yet, behind closed doors. VIP rooms and secret societies.

Cheap displays of riches and money disgust me, they always have. No respect for the Paris Hiltons of the world, the Donald Trumps. They have no style. They are cheap in all their richness. Put lipstick on a pig and it will still be a pig. They tend to be American too, those who flaunt it. I've observed this since I was a child. Vaguely similar in some Asian societies but no, not quite, it's on another level. Things seem to have started going wrong here in the 80's when the greed took over. There's no shame in being greedy today, materialistic... It's a distinctly American trait, similar to that of sneering at anything just vaguely intellectual. My conflict lies in morality. My idealistic streak rears its concerned head, questioning me on my morals. Recalling things I've seen in the world, places I've been, conditions I've witnessed, people I've known. "What about THE WORLD?", it asks, "What about THEM?" Privilege is a two-sided sword.

In connection, this always made me laugh because he is so right.:

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Ou sont les nouveaux riches...nous sommes les nouveaux riches
Wie haben alle überlistet
Haben es dieser Welt gezeigt
Kennen jedes Für und alle Wider
Unser Appeal ist weltverzweigt

Brauchen keine Sprache
Kennen unsere Welt
Haben eines gemeinsam:
Wir haben Geld, und
Deine Gigolos
Meine Maitressen
Haben gemeinsam
Keine Interessen

Wenn Du sagst ich bin Dein Stereotyp
Mit Haut und Haar und Car
Ist mir klar wir brauchen keine Worte
Wir zahlen uns bar

Zwischen Weltbild und Success
Fahren wir einen Zug, den ZEITGEISTEXPRESS
Nach Alcapulco, Monaco, der Swiss
Wir, die neuen Reichen
Les nouveaux riches

Oh oh oh you are one of the nouveaux riches
Oh oh oh making money is all you preach
Oh oh oh take a look at the nouveaux riches

Ich kenne meine Partner, Deine nicht
Die Quintessenz der Sprache ist Gift
Es gibt bessere und es gibt mich
Du liebst das Leben
Ich liebe Dich

Ein Überflieger wär ich gerne
Ein Reisender der Zeit
Und wann immer Du gehen möchtest, komm
Ich bin bereit

Der Argonaut im Kosmokrator kennt Horizonte nicht
Er fliegt und fliegt
Er... fliegt ins weisse Licht
Nicht nach De Janeiro
Und nicht nach Nice
Nicht als armer Reicher
Als nouveaux riches

Oh oh oh you are one of the nouveaux riches
Oh oh oh MAKING MONEY IS ALL YOU PREACH
Oh oh oh take a look at the nouveaux riches

Where do you go when the money's gone
Where do you go when you're all alone
Where do you go when there's no one there

SELL YOUR SOUL

Oh oh oh you are one of the nouveaux riches
Oh oh oh making money is all you preach
Oh oh oh take a look at the nouveaux riches

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