Results for “apocalypse as cliché”

It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

R.E.M.

A rapid-fire torrent of apocalyptic imagery, media static, and cultural namedropping that never lets the listener settle into a…

information overload media saturation apocalypse as cliché

Sinnerman

Nina Simone

A traditional African-American spiritual rebuilt by Simone into a ten-minute chase sequence: a sinner runs from judgment on the…

judgment day futile flight refused sanctuary

In My Life

The Beatles

A meditation on memory that moves from cataloguing remembered places and people to a declaration of present love, arguing that…

memory and nostalgia mortality the persistence of the past