Forum Overview :: No Stairway to Heaven :: Whoa, you guys never answered my question about tweeness.

[quote name="Zseni"]It's not that I think Deeply Personal music can't be done. Caltrops knows that I cry like an abused child whenever I listen to Jeff Buckley. I'd bring up Jacques Brel too, but maybe he is a little too camp even in his splendid honesty and passion. It isn't about picaresque subject matter either: Jacques Brel can sing about whores and revenge and that's fine. I got no beef with Menomena's desires to be useful machines or dudes with makeup on. The Faint recorded an entire album of love songs dedicated to sex and I thought it was great. Twee must live in the affected vulnerability of its proponents. BUT WHY is IT so POPULAR? There is not a trace of twee in Dolorean's excellent fire-and-brimstone folk/country/sludgerock "Violence In The Snowy Fields", an album I have been meaning to recommend to Caltrops for quite some time, as I think you guys will like it better than I did. I recognize it as pure class but it scares the crap out of me and it's got such a warm sound. It's out of place among my oblique disco artifacts. [/quote]