http://www.djskyler.com/2006/02/15/a-new-devo/ Ambitious Slacker Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:09:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.djskyler.com/2006/02/15/a-new-devo/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Inky Sat, 18 Feb 2006 20:11:50 +0000 http://www.djskyler.com/?p=11#comment-6 Not sure whether to laugh or cry. On one hand, this is so Devo-esque. They always had the in-joke that they were making corporate music in a corporate environment, so there was no reason to even try and pretent they were rebels, right? At least that's what Mark Mothersbaugh said in an interview I have of him laying around here somewhere. So this is just an extension of that - taking their own music and making it into teeny-bopper canned corporate shit extreme, which is pretty much was the corporate music industry is doing anyway (hence how we got crappy artists like Brittney Spears). Right? On the other hand, it's still corporate teeny bopper music. So I'm not sure if the joke is on us or on the corporate system in this case. Not sure whether to laugh or cry. On one hand, this is so Devo-esque. They always had the in-joke that they were making corporate music in a corporate environment, so there was no reason to even try and pretent they were rebels, right? At least that’s what Mark Mothersbaugh said in an interview I have of him laying around here somewhere. So this is just an extension of that – taking their own music and making it into teeny-bopper canned corporate shit extreme, which is pretty much was the corporate music industry is doing anyway (hence how we got crappy artists like Brittney Spears). Right? On the other hand, it’s still corporate teeny bopper music. So I’m not sure if the joke is on us or on the corporate system in this case.

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