Tag: faux profundity

Film reviews just in – Marty Supreme; Wuthering Heights; Lord of the Flies. 15 Feb, 2026.

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The reason I don’t enjoy period films that have a soundtrack of music which is yet to come for the age in which they are set, is not entirely about the jarring incongruity of the moment the music kicks in; nor is it that the generation below me has now come of age, and is … Continue reading Film reviews just in – Marty Supreme; Wuthering Heights; Lord of the Flies. 15 Feb, 2026.

12th Nov – Well, never mind, We are ugly, but we have the music.

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A style of lyric that exhibits two of the key failings which are a feature of many chart successes, to wit: a moment of pretentious teenage profundity; and a timeline that doesn't make sense.

11th Nov – Well it’s the only thing, That I could do half right, And it’s turning out all wrong ma.

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It requires something that appeals to the appetite for profundity that exists in uneducated teenagers.