golden ages:
"EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT"
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BLKBRR's take on pop music as a suitable "ambassador of the fringe, the avant-garde, the weird, the strange, the experimental" finds a funny echo in the title of Golden Ages' "Everything Will Be Alright." People resist those four words in that particular order, usually because "alright" is such a nebulous term or because misery/self-pity cocktails are so delicious. But in the context of the argument that whatever "popular culture finds too difficult to understand can be introduced through the universal appeal of pop [music, v. the shifting non-genre 'popular music']," it makes total sense. GA's synth-sunburst makes an earnest appeal that its title is very much the case, that you can cover a lot of hard distance not by deluding yourself, but by centering on that kind of simple rhetoric.
I haven't said much about how this one "works," but so what? There's good sight in this song.
Bryan Schlam directed the official video, which juxtaposes a club crush, a drowning, a nature-god finding.
-Peter