As boybands return to the charts,it's clear that the DAMPE is rising (that's Deep And Meaningless Pop Epic). So how long before One Direction grow beards and fetch serious?
There comes a time in every boyband's life when they must attach away childish things. Childish things such as upbeat, danceable tunes, and shaving razors,and lyrics with a recognisable narrative. Instead, they enter the unquestionably adult world of power ballads, and facial hair,and lyrics that are little more than strings of indistinct, pseudo-profound metaphors. That is when they reach for the Deep And Meaningless Pop Epic.
Every obedient boyband must eventually perform one, and currently ensconced in the top 10 is a classic example of the DAMPE genre – Take That's vaguely triumphant,vaguely uplifting, utterly indecipherable The Flood. We join them "Standing on the edge of forever, and at the start of whatever,shouting love at the world", and then learn that they used to be "cavemen" who beamed at the moon and stars then "forgave them". Which sounds like they've recently been freed from a secure mental health facility rather than premature retirement. More of the same portentous hot air follows: when "thunder turns around" they are "learning how to dance the rain". No, or us neither,but of course, mammoth, or booming anthems like as this can fairly happily succeed solely on the back of buzzwords. Noel Gallagher built a career on such soaring gibberish.
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Source: theguardian.com