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Sunday, June 5, 2011

"Karaoke world is a life lived by proxy."

I've NEVER seen the word karaoke employed as such a pejorative and serious cultural metaphor. This isn't so much as an indictment of karaoke as we discuss it here as it is an nostalgia for false modernist "authentic" art forms and practices, elite education, and a misguided deconstruction of postmodern coolness. Still, if you can get through the 13 minute pauses this chap makes after each of his adjectives, this lecture shouts out karaoke culture as in lazy copycat ahistoric performative fun-having as a loaded term more and variously than we ever have on this blog to some means you might appreciate. I love TED talks as much as the next Brooklyn chump, but not my tune: Authentic Creativity vs. Karaoke Culture

-G