Once upon a time, musical artists sweated over their albums, arranging the tracks in just the right order, or using them to explore a single concept or theme. The chaotic, click-driven demands of streaming have put an end to all that. In The Free Press, River Page uses Lady Gaga’s latest release – covering every genre from techno-club pop to light rock to Taylor Swift parody – to lament albums’ loss of musical coherence. “It’s a mess,” Page explains.
Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.
