GOLDFRAPP: MORE HIPSTERS, MORE PASSE BLACK METAL JOKES
Half-assed appropriations of black metal imagery can join ironic facial hair, fixies, and rapist glasses on the list of tiresome, worn out memes that hipsters keep trotting out long after they’ve worn out whatever welcome they had (see also the recent Reign In Blonde post on this subject). For most of us, the novelty of black metal wore off sometime in the mid-90s, but apparently it’s still fresh for Goldfrapp, the latest coked-up assholes to pat themselves on the back for discovering that corpsepaint is ridiculous.
To underscore exactly how late to the party these smug dickholes are, here are a few other things that happened in 1994 (the year Varg Vikernes was convicted of murder and put Scandanavian black metal on the map):
- Bill Clinton delivered his first State Of The Union address
- Apple released the first Macintosh computers to use the PowerPC chip
- Kurt Cobain committed suicide
- Netscape Navigator version 1.0 was released
- OJ Simpson fled from the police in his infamous white Bronco
There you have it: black metal jokes are about as topical as OJ references. That said, I don’t know about you, but I feel like some Netscape jokes would be a nice change of pace.
-Sergeant D
