men and music
why do men idolise morrissey so?
what do they see in john lennon and liam gallagher, ian brown and joe strummer? they wanna suck their _____
bad when discussing their genius to women of a certain age (note 18-30). harping on
about the beat in rock the casbah,
the mood in i wanna be adored, or
attitude in abundance in champagne supernova. hell, they even
go on about the majesty of let it be and the melancholy in
heaven knows i’m miserable now, like these are new emotions that
no critic has found in these hits prior.
but when we hit back, saying things like
morrissey sucked when i saw him live;
johnny marr was pretty good though
or
i think i prefer joe strummer’s stuff when he’s with the mescaleros
they laugh us away with an air of “oh! you’re so cute when you talk music!”
once i told a guy that wings were the band the beatles could have been and
he went from inappropriately flirting with me
to looking like he wanted to strangle me in the space of three seconds. clearly my alan partridge bit was lost on him.
bless. at least i didn’t personalise the quote by swapping out ‘wings’ for ‘busted; then we really would have had a mutiny on our hands.
i say
i think i prefer blur and i’m met with
“you can’t say that when you didn’t experience the war.”
deadly serious male manipulator types
comparing the battle of brit pop - fit boys arguing with not so fit boys -
about who can sing better (when elastica were
better than the lot) with a historic world war
if you don’t laugh, you’ll cry.
i mistakenly asked a man, semi-recently, whether he’d heard
paul mccartney’s 2021 album mccartney iii imagined
to which he came at me with a genuine hostility, as if
the very notion of recommending music to a man forty years my senior was
completely preposterous. “i think you should listen to an artist’s discography in order, before suggesting i listen to a new album by a musician whom i grew up with. it’s patronising.”
okay, i smiled, but women and wives with st. vincent is a good song.
have a nice day.
he left, my middle finger pushing him out of the door.