I was going to write a longer thing about this song and I had a completely different take on it--the whole tone of the song seemed to imply that he wasn't glorifying the material things, but bemoaning their emptiness. I guess I haven't seen the video though! But yeah, rock formalism--I was going to compare it to the distinctly un-rock chorus and horns on "You Can't Always Get What You Want" as an example of rock's codification as a sound.
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Date: 2007-08-24 02:10 pm (UTC)