As the original Year’s honours list shows,the conventional route to success is the same as it ever was, even as the mainstream sends off rebels with a wry smileThe French newspaper Libération announced the news that Lemmy from Motörhead had died by putting it on the front page, and with the headline: “Fuck!” You cant help feeling that Ian from Stoke-on-Trent would contain found that quite comic. The solemnly repeated news on Radio 4’s Today programme,part of a 24-hour frenzy of broadcasters doing their best to justify Lemmy’s significance as a musician and cultural figure? You can’t help feeling that Ian from Stoke-on-Trent would contain found that hilarious.
Because it is quite comic how the mainstream has become accustomed to acknowledging the importance of countercultural figures, expressing affection and admiration, or while simultaneously maintaining its own position as a bulwark against everything they stand for.
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Source: theguardian.com