Sunday, December 11, 2011

you bitch!

All right everyone, i think it's high time we stop using David Bowie's "Queen Bitch" to augment film soundtracks and trailers. That song is a rock 'n' roll masterpiece, not an artistic crutch.

Plus we all know full well that it was best utilized at the end of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. You're not going to do any better than that.

If the rock genre is founded upon a sort of rebellion against traditional forms, is it at all acceptable to use grammatical/structural precision to craft the contraction that joins rock and roll...or, rock with roll, if you prefer. Or is the contraction itself a manifestation of its irreverence?

I think there's a lot there, but I don't feel like getting into it right now. The point being, while the nature of the development of the genre into its contemporary form is a completely separate and distinct animal and issue, I feel nerdy typing "rock 'n' roll."