Yes there's like a poise and tastefulness to them. I mean tastefulness as a bad thing. You know like when you go round someone's flat and everything is really *nice* but it's unnerving too. It all coheres to present a very carefully - too carefully- put together picture of the Good Life.this is what we are supposed to aspire to at the moment. it's the ideal we strive towards.
I know some people like this. They're always going to Dubai and posting photos from rooftop bars in London.a job in the creative industries paying upwards of 50k a year. lots of good looking feckless friends from around the world. no children. no responisibnilities. no mental illness. every days a party.
Yes there's like a poise and tastefulness to them. I mean tastefulness as a bad thing. You know like when you go round someone's flat and everything is really *nice* but it's unnerving too. It all coheres to present a very carefully - too carefully- put together picture of the Good Life.
I think this quite a new thing? I hated them at the time but Oasis and that lot were never tasteful. Fuck even Fatboy slim wasn't tasteful. But this sort of stuff like Mgmt is.
I think the modern sense of "curating" things is also important here
I think dissensus anti-hero Clive Martin once wrote a thing about how nothing good ever happens at a roof top bar event
And also - never *too much*. I think that's an important thing with this stuff. There's always a self restraint to it. Its pathological. This constriction, this self awareness at all times. have fun but don't embarrass yourselfbit art school/fashion school. arch, knowing, cute.
and that's linked to the fact it's really well done. rinse fm pop is similar in that respect. it's almost too perfect.
spotless dust free guitar hanging up on the wall never to be playedI mean tastefulness as a bad thing. You know like when you go round someone's flat and everything is really *nice* but it's unnerving too.
Attractive couple, both sitting, the girlfriend leaning back into the boyfriends chest, both taken slightly aback but smiling at whatever is 45 degrees off center and out of framespotless dust free guitar hanging up on the wall never to be played