The Velvet Underground
A simple origin myth for a solitary listener, Jenny, whose bored suburban childhood is transformed the moment she finds a radio…
salvation through music suburban alienation adolescence
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
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