possibly I'd like CSS if I didn't have them stuffed down my throat as the saviours of the known universe every time I open a music publication
This strikes me as an explicitly anti-pop point of view - exactly the same as whenever people justify directing vitriol at mainstream pop because "I'm forced to listen to it whenever I go to the shops or turn on the radio". As a reason to dislike something, it's nonsense, and it makes even less sense when applied to someone like CSS, who surely must be raved about by only a handful of music publications - Plan B put them on the cover but one Alex Macpherson slated the album, the NME quite like them but nowhere near as much as the next band who don't have girls in or sound a bit foreign.
Equally, "people only like them cos they're from Brazil" = about as useful a comment as "people only like them cos they fancy them" - although of course, if they were from Clapham then they would sound different, wouldn't they.
Also, if 'Let's Make Love & Listen To Death From Above' isn't explicitly about a long-distance relationship/courtship then I'm not sure there's a better way to read it. Telephone calls, exchanged mixes, plane journeys made for love...
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This strikes me as an explicitly anti-pop point of view - exactly the same as whenever people justify directing vitriol at mainstream pop because "I'm forced to listen to it whenever I go to the shops or turn on the radio". As a reason to dislike something, it's nonsense, and it makes even less sense when applied to someone like CSS, who surely must be raved about by only a handful of music publications - Plan B put them on the cover but one Alex Macpherson slated the album, the NME quite like them but nowhere near as much as the next band who don't have girls in or sound a bit foreign.
Equally, "people only like them cos they're from Brazil" = about as useful a comment as "people only like them cos they fancy them" - although of course, if they were from Clapham then they would sound different, wouldn't they.
Also, if 'Let's Make Love & Listen To Death From Above' isn't explicitly about a long-distance relationship/courtship then I'm not sure there's a better way to read it. Telephone calls, exchanged mixes, plane journeys made for love...