Insufferable lyrics like this are why I didn't bother with Pure Comedy the album. Aldous Harding easily. _________________ Join us in the canon game :) / Add me on RYM
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Yeah I can see that on those - they definitely are more immediate.
Something about the anthropological aspect of Pure Comedy (album and title track) I Really dig... more so than anything else he's done. Dunno why I feel completely different than everyone else - I actually do think his ramblings are clever philosophical shticks. Probably because I'm a pasty wonky cracker.
The thing is though, no good anthropologist would say most of this stuff. I think what you're referring to is the bird's-eye view of humanity that he's trying to approximate, which is something shared with anthropologists. _________________ Join us in the canon game :) / Add me on RYM
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Yeah I can see that on those - they definitely are more immediate.
Something about the anthropological aspect of Pure Comedy (album and title track) I Really dig... more so than anything else he's done. Dunno why I feel completely different than everyone else - I actually do think his ramblings are clever philosophical shticks. Probably because I'm a pasty wonky cracker.
The thing is though, no good anthropologist would say most of this stuff. I think what you're referring to is the bird's-eye view of humanity that he's trying to approximate, which is something shared with anthropologists.
Yeah I mean who talks about why men go out to "hunt" in their music/the feminist struggle of taking care of children? I can't really think of anyone who is more obviously anthropological than this song. Or why tribal women wear their children and western society doesn't (as he talks about us being born too soon). Maybe I'm reading to much into it, but I remember it hitting me pretty strong the first time I listened to the song. I actually could take or leave FJM before I heard this song.
And yes, it's a pop song, so of course it's not a peer reviewed paper on anthropological terms/I'm not calling him a professor of Anthropology/the spokesperson of the greatest anthropological discourse, rather it was distinctly so... and more so than most due to all the aspects of what's discussed. Not just religion or family dynamics or politics or whatever - but the whole picture.
But yes, anthropologists discuss a lot of these concepts in further detail and no they often don't have quick poetic synopsis of their findings on those topics.
I feel like a professor of anthropology I studied with talked about male and female roles in different cultures. That hunting for protein was key to... blah blah blah... anyway, maybe I'm lost on the point you are making? Or only garbage anthropologists talk about those types of things?
I'm really at a loss of how these are garbage lyrics. Easy targets; cheap shots is kinda what I'm hearing. Do you have another musician who is amazing at this type of portrayal of humanity which makes FJM clearly the idiot I feel people are making him out to be now?
RoundTheBendI miss the comfort in being sadProfile Ground Control
Yeah I can see that on those - they definitely are more immediate.
Something about the anthropological aspect of Pure Comedy (album and title track) I Really dig... more so than anything else he's done. Dunno why I feel completely different than everyone else - I actually do think his ramblings are clever philosophical shticks. Probably because I'm a pasty wonky cracker.
The thing is though, no good anthropologist would say most of this stuff. I think what you're referring to is the bird's-eye view of humanity that he's trying to approximate, which is something shared with anthropologists.
Yeah I mean who talks about why men go out to "hunt" in their music/the feminist struggle of taking care of children? I can't really think of anyone who is more obviously anthropological than this song. Or why tribal women wear their children and western society doesn't (as he talks about us being born too soon). Maybe I'm reading to much into it, but I remember it hitting me pretty strong the first time I listened to the song. I actually could take or leave FJM before I heard this song.
And yes, it's a pop song, so of course it's not a peer reviewed paper on anthropological terms/I'm not calling him a professor of Anthropology/the spokesperson of the greatest anthropological discourse, rather it was distinctly so... and more so than most due to all the aspects of what's discussed. Not just religion or family dynamics or politics or whatever - but the whole picture.
But yes, anthropologists discuss a lot of these concepts in further detail and no they often don't have quick poetic synopsis of their findings on those topics.
I feel like a professor of anthropology I studied with talked about male and female roles in different cultures. That hunting for protein was key to... blah blah blah... anyway, maybe I'm lost on the point you are making? Or only garbage anthropologists talk about those types of things?
I'm really at a loss of how these are garbage lyrics. Easy targets; cheap shots is kinda what I'm hearing. Do you have another musician who is amazing at this type of portrayal of humanity which makes FJM clearly the idiot I feel people are making him out to be now?
My point is that a good anthropologist would not ridicule a given society's religious beliefs/garments/texts, social/cultural mores, or political structures. A good anthropologist would try to understand these aspects of the culture being studied by setting aside their own ethnocentrism, instead of condemning them with an air of superiority as FJM does. _________________ Join us in the canon game :) / Add me on RYM
RoundTheBendI miss the comfort in being sadProfile Ground Control
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