The Brakes - Heard About Your Band (download mp3)
Another song from the olden days, because I haven’t been getting into any new music recently. The message is timeless at least, which is to say: stop being a self-aggrandising asshole. This is obviously much easier said than done, especially with the advent of Twitter, which Josie Long accurately characterised as “brilliant -it lets you show off for NO REASON.”
Additionally, forgive the hypocrisy next time I try and discreetly hint at how cool I want you to think I am.
Oh and if you like analysing the intersection (complete overlap?) of social media and showing off, you’ll like Asserting Your Social Status With Your Facebook Status at NY Mag. Excerpt:
Your life is worthy of envy, but it is not perfect — otherwise everyone would hate you, and we can’t have that. And so the fabulous undershare must strike a counterbalance, and the results can be fantastic. This updater’s status, nominally a complaint about a nasty hangover, is really a subterranean boast that (a) the updater has a Dionysian appreciation for the high life, (b) has rather limitless supplies of Rose [sic] wine, and (c) is in Ibiza.
Anyway, I’ve got to go, I have an appointment to view a delightful house in leafy South Lon… oh fuck.
