These days when some indie luminary gives an interview to Pitchfork about the latest deluxe 180-gram vinyl reissue of one of his early neglected masterpieces, he does not show up high and gloat about “the chicks.” He speaks in quiet clipped sentences and uses words like “prevaricate.” He quietly donates $4,600 to to the moderate liberal senator who represents his adopted home state. He does not care about “the chicks” or “the money,” which thanks to the advent of streaming music isn’t really more than what slightly above average upper-class college-educated professionals are making — which is fitting, because college-educated professionals is in fact what they are.
I cannot be the only one who misses the former type. Which is why it was hilarious watching an entire generation of 20- and 30-something adults get genuinely upset by Kanye West’s vague and inconsequential tweets about President Trump on Wednesday. How dorky have we become when all a rapper has to say to “offend” us is that he does not hate the president of the United States?
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