The Radical
I’ve little patience with this kind of thing –
This trite, post-modern, easy-listening.
I hoped for something far more challenging.
This isn’t avant-garde enough.
It really isn’t hard enough.
It isn’t avant-garde enough for me.
The point is not to please the bourgeois ear.
The good composer is a pioneer
Whose music very few will want to hear.
This isn’t cutting edge enough.
It isn’t off-the-ledge enough.
It isn’t cutting edge enough for me.
Art should disturb. It’s not to make us glad.
It isn’t to console us when we’re sad.
It’s to remind us that the world is bad.
This isn’t agonised enough.
You’re not antagonised enough.
It isn’t agonised enough for me.
Repeat ad lib: It really isn’t hard enough
It isn’t avant-garde enough etc.
The Traditionalist
I like a good tune with a regular beat
From the days before music went wrong –
An old-fashioned melody, catchy and sweet.
I like a good tune with a regular beat.
These modern composers, they can’t write a song.
They don’t get you tapping your feet.
I like a good tune with a regular beat
From the days before music went wrong.
Wendy Cope
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