[lbo-talk] Moby - nerd, wuss, or dick?

Ben Jackson nonplus.plus at gmail.com
Mon Feb 25 22:51:26 PST 2008



> Because he's pompous and self-righteous and his music sucks.

Pretty much sums it. And amidst all of that suck he seems obsessed with presenting himself as some kind of genre-defying, multi-instrumental renaissance man. I saw him open for David Bowie once and he wouldn't stick to any instrument for longer than a verse. He'd play a keyboard part for a moment, sprint across this huge stage so that he could smack away furiously at the congas for maybe thirty seconds, in a wide stance, head thrown back, and then dash off the next instrument. Just preposterous.

And yet somehow the fact that he'll put a (amateurish, token) rock song on a (retrograde) electronic album is supposed to BLOW OUR MINDS. Ugh. Eclecticism is the new monotony.



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list