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
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
Sufjan Stevens
A quiet domestic love song that strips Christmas of all its commercial and social trappings and relocates the holiday's meaning…
intimacy vs. commercialism presence over spectacle domestic love as sanctuary