Friday, December 07, 2007

#32: LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum

This is, in many ways, James Murphy's answer to the Arctic Monkey's "Fake Tales of San Francisco". There's something really refreshing to the song. And yes, while it's Murphy's take on Americans as "scum", and as assholes, which we are want to do sometimes, it's also interesting because it's kind of a retrospective on the last ten years of his life as an artist. He says "and for those of you who still they're from England, we're not, no" - he's established what this song is about. He's saying - guess what - whether you like it or not - you can't become British - you can't make yourself suddenly a European, and you can't change the fact that you are, in fact, an American. That doesn't mean that just because you're American that you're pro-war or pro-life or pro-gun or pro-death penalty or anything. What it means is that there's a whole bunch of us here living in this country and we are not the same.

LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum

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posted by b, 12/07/2007 12:28:00 AM | |