Results for “media/news detachment”

Songs

Waiting Room

Fugazi

A song built almost entirely on tension between stasis and forward motion, using the image of a waiting room to talk about…

patience vs. paralysis self-discipline resistance to passivity

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

Batdance

Prince

"Batdance" is less a song than a sound collage built to promote the 1989 Batman film, splicing dance-funk grooves with dialogue…

media spectacle identity/duality commercialism and tie-in culture

All the Young Dudes (David Bowie & Ian Hunter Vocal)

Mott the Hoople

A glam-rock anthem that assembles a cast of disaffected, gender-bending teenagers and hands them a vague, urgent 'news' to…

generational rupture glam identity and androgyny disaffection with 60s idealism

Disorder

Joy Division

Disorder opens Unknown Pleasures with a portrait of dissociation, a speaker who registers the world's speed and violence but…

emotional numbness dissociation longing for normalcy

Space Oddity

David Bowie

A radio drama in miniature: a space agency counts an astronaut into orbit, celebrates him as a media sensation, then loses him.…

alienation celebrity and spectacle technological failure

21st Century Schizoid Man (Including "Mirrors")

King Crimson

This opening track sets a nightmarish, distorted portrait of modern civilization against a savage instrumental attack, using the…

dehumanization war and atrocity technological/medical horror