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[Strangelet]

Originally Posted by dubman

strangelet's got it

in all honestly the only thing that supremely pisses me off about coldplay is using a delacroix painting for the album cover. if you werent a dilettante you'd realize that's a hackneyed move compared to using Gericault's "Raft of the Medusa" if you were going to dive into the depths of art history for visual inspiration.
it would have been so goddamn awesome that this missed opprtunity (above the other musical ones to a lesser extent) is the only thing that makes me irrationally cheesed at them.

i know you're joking and that's really funny. but I seriously am annoyed by the artwork. It takes a real genius like delacroix to make sense of something so unfathomable as "liberty."

Its not like you can't use art. Fleet Foxes does it tastefully. Their artwork shows breugel. I get it. Its rustic. They're folk music. Fine.

But delacroix grew up around the desperate cause of the paris commune stuck in finger cuffs between waves of imperialism and royalism. I figure that gives him license to say something about liberty. Using it as a ready made to express one's flatulent self importance for a product bound for starbucks. Sorry just doesn't add up.

Seriously, if Mozart had any inkling his music would soon find its post mortem life squarely in cat food commercials he'd probably just say fuck all y'all and just become a womanizer. And I wouldn't blame him. Because there are rules, dammit.