Motherless Brooklyn, Fatherless Los Angeles
Reihan: here’s another social shift through which we can analyze ‘the trouble with indie rock’ — this one not post-Reagan but mid-Reagan: divorce. It’d be fascinating to see if the empirics justify my suspicion that exceedingly large numbers of indie rockers and their fans are kids/adults who went through their parents’ divorce. I also suspect that lots others are functionally alienated from their families, sometimes deliberately. Williamsburg and Silver Lake as tragically hip orphanages: discuss?
You know I lost both of my parents to cancer when I was young, and I have always tried to never let that fact affect how I interact with people or judge them.
However, when people talk about how children of divorce are more likely to be deep or intense or artistic, as the people you talk about here are wont to do… I kind of want to scream.
— Freddie · Oct 21, 05:08 PM · #
very general, but I think there tends to be some odd truth to it. They are at least more accepting of the modernity that is required to been in tune with certain types of art/music
— coomaraswamee · Oct 21, 09:26 PM · #
Temporarily lost in the archives is a post I wrote about the dotted line one can follow, like Billy in the Family Circus, from the “Brooklyn Book of Wonder” to the Arcade Fire, the common thread being flaky parents who have failed to be more mature than their children. I’ll dig up a link once the archives are back on line.
— Matt Frost · Oct 21, 09:47 PM · #
Oh, and The Squid and the Whale is also another exhibit in the case of the Latchkey Aesthetic.
— Matt Frost · Oct 21, 11:12 PM · #