For Pete’s Sake
Posted on February 4, 2008
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OVERANALYZE THIS: Babyshambles
Babyshambles
Shotter’s Nation
(Astralwerks)
Where, oh, where have all the rock stars gone? Those blithering drug-addled fuckups—tall and charismatic with a Chelsea-boot swagger one minute; pressing a crack pipe into a pet cat’s mouth the next. If our mainstream rock stars are arriving in the form of, say…Pete Wentz, whose biggest blunder was broadcasting his p33n online (yawn), haven’t we lost something in our artistic culture that’s drawn so much naked humanity from bottom-of-a-pit despair? Gimme danger, as a wise man once said. Or else, why are we listening?
