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Originally Posted by David
If "indie" means anything these days, it means melding incommensurate elements. In this case (Best Coast), it's the humor at the root of all these elements you would never expect to hear: Fleetwood Mac gets criticized for being a I-IV-V pop-song band that's too repetitive, so this Best Coast band turns the song into a I-IV-V pop song with a ridiculously repetitive piano (in a major key, no less, unlike the original). It's kind of stupid-brilliant. It's quite ironic and quite funny. That's the true deconstruction—you pull the suppositions apart until you uncover the irresolvable bias beneath (the musical aporia). What could be less mystical than this Rhiannon?
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David,
Where did you buy your brain at?