Pop music, and Trumpsky's moment
David Brooks is a busy journalist. He goes from being the Friday co-prophet on PBS Evening News to writing important op-eds in the New York Times. He picks pop music for today's column:
"Sometimes pop culture seems completely prepackaged and professionalized, so when somebody steps out and puts on a display of vulnerability, trust and humility, it takes your breath away.
"That’s what Chance the Rapper did on Monday on 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.' He debuted a new, untitled song... about the perils of stardom ...[The] artist humbly baring himself before his audience, trusting them to understand, sympathize and receive his bid for intimacy. There’s always something multilayered when people tell you a story about the ground that they have honestly walked.
"It’s interesting to compare Chance’s song with Taylor Swift’s new song, 'Look What You Made Me Do,' which is also about a young star coping with celebrity. The former stands out from the current cultural moment; the latter embodies it. Swift is a phenomenally talented and beautiful songwriter who has lost touch with herself and seems to have been swallowed by the ethos of the Trump era."
At least I give a fuck about Taylor... and may learn to like Chance. There is ZERO chance (heh heh!) I will ever sympathize with The Don.
"Sometimes pop culture seems completely prepackaged and professionalized, so when somebody steps out and puts on a display of vulnerability, trust and humility, it takes your breath away.
"That’s what Chance the Rapper did on Monday on 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.' He debuted a new, untitled song... about the perils of stardom ...[The] artist humbly baring himself before his audience, trusting them to understand, sympathize and receive his bid for intimacy. There’s always something multilayered when people tell you a story about the ground that they have honestly walked.
"It’s interesting to compare Chance’s song with Taylor Swift’s new song, 'Look What You Made Me Do,' which is also about a young star coping with celebrity. The former stands out from the current cultural moment; the latter embodies it. Swift is a phenomenally talented and beautiful songwriter who has lost touch with herself and seems to have been swallowed by the ethos of the Trump era."
At least I give a fuck about Taylor... and may learn to like Chance. There is ZERO chance (heh heh!) I will ever sympathize with The Don.