Results for “damnation as banality”

Songs

Elvis Costello

Costello imagines the afterlife as a tacky nightclub of endless small humiliations rather than fire and brimstone. The song's…

damnation as banality social embarrassment kitsch and bad taste

PJ Harvey

PJ Harvey builds a self-mythologizing torch song out of biblical and folkloric imagery, casting devotion as a form of damnation.…

obsessive devotion blasphemy and sacrifice mythic self-invention

Bessie Smith

Bessie Smith stages a full descent-into-hell nightmare as a twelve-bar blues, using classic AAB stanzas to build a horror…

mortality and damnation nightmare and dream logic sin and judgment

Kris Kristofferson

A carnival-barker satire that reimagines hell as a theme park, complete with billboards, ticket lines, and celebrity attractions…

moral corruption as entertainment consumerism and commodified sin celebrity and infamy

Bessie Smith

A blues warning delivered as a curse: the narrator threatens a philandering partner with damnation, using the devil as a…

infidelity and betrayal moral reckoning female assertiveness

Patti Smith

Land is a nine-minute fever-dream that fuses a violent locker-room assault narrative with the deliriously banal patter of 1960s…

violence and vulnerability transformation through imagination adolescent sexuality