Word: insipids
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...figures elsewhere in 17th century Dutch art, coming on with wineglasses and making gestures of sexual insinuation. Vermeer's are seldom marked by experience, and except for maids and servants, they all belong to the same stratum--a class, needless to say, rather above his. Does this make them insipid? Sometimes, yes, but it can also turn them into vessels of lyric innocence, as in the Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1665-66, with her liquidly painted turban of virginal blue, who turns her shining gaze to meet yours as though she'd never seen another human being...
...pushed it off the radar screen, and it apparently lost the mandate of art history. The new, swelling museum culture in the U.S. tended to ignore it. In the early 1950s the prewar masters remained-Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Lager, Miro-but who was going to pay much attention to insipid French abstractionists like Hans Hartung or Alfred Manessier in the face of what Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning were doing...
Before the Kenny G's of the world hijacked jazz-pop fusion and turned it into something best suited to elevators, guitarist Walter Becker and keyboardist Donald Fagen used the genre to create sharp, ravishing songs that were as invigorating as Kenny's are insipid. As Steely Dan, the pair combined the ! subversiveness of rock with the cool swing of jazz, yielding seven hit albums and sleek, acerbic singles like Hey Nineteen, about a 30ish Lothario and his drug-loving teenage girlfriend. Becker, whose stringy hair and Fu Manchu lent him a certain wanted-poster chic, and Fagen, in ever...
...only approximations of cabaret style theatrical music shows. Then real entertainers like Sokol would never have to mix their song with Andrew Lloyd Weberesque drivel, and anyone tempted to drama would have to be good--and find good scripts. Why do real entertainers have to be the sideshow for insipid love-interest fragments which gets dragged and carted through the interruptions of festive show tunes posing as drama...
...love -- it's too often the food of lust, angst, violence, misogyny and general nihilism. Grunge rockers are raging, gangsta rappers are boasting. The last thing anyone with talent seems interested in performing are songs about men and women who are crazy about each other. Love songs are for insipid, unit-moving "entertainers" like Michael Bolton -- and that's as good as saying the love song is dead...