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Pop culture requires itself as a lens to our vision and our voice.
I would say that, rather than remark upon the music's instrumentality, he reiterates it in a very symptomatic pop-culture fetishism. Pastiche IS NOT by its nature a revolutionary form. The clever aesthete. Not me, that's for sure. The only consumer awakening I see going on is the consumer who gets pissed at the fact that John Zorn is screwing them over.