Word: aestheticization
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Guero’s influences stretch beyond old Beck material, embracing the inglorious lower tiers of pop culture and throwing them into the mix. Some of the electronic ditties, such as that of “Earthquake Weather,” recall the early 1990s childhood aesthetic of Super Mario...
Although Guero is a patchwork of “other” sounds, and never settles on one of its own, to call the album unoriginal is to miss the point. The album further refines Beck’s technique of appropriation-as-aesthetic, and the results are marvelous. Many...
Diary’s detractors correctly acknowledge that Madea is a crass and unbelievable caricature. What they miss is that her complete lack of verisimilitude is deliberate and critical to the aesthetic that Perry endeavors to create.
‘64-‘95 follows up on Lemon Jelly’s singles collection lemonjelly.ky, and their first album, Lost Horizons, both of which share this album’s aesthetic of pleasant (if boring) psychedelic electronica, borrowing from a diverse array of samples, and ironically...
“I want to propose that the humanities should take, as their central objects of study, not the texts of historians or philosophers, but the products of aesthetic endeavor—architecture, art, dance, music, literature, theater, and so on,” Vendler said.