Saw this today and it really made me think – the eras before the naughties really had some epic lyrics that went on for 8 or 9 verses at a time. You know the ones like Bohemian Rhapsody that are pure elation to your ears when you hear them and you have the urge to do all the different voices in one breath and never quite hit the high note? Then in dawned on me how mundane most of the lyrics today are – bar Mumford and Sons and Florence and the Machine (really exposing my music taste here). What will future generations think of our musical legacies? I’m just comforted by the thought that at least this decade has produced some astonishing literary works and hopefully that will distract the future drone-flying generations from our repetitive songs that mind-boggling make it to number one.
