Death means either totally not existing at all, or going around and around exactly the same all the time, like a perpetual motion machine – here’s what I mean. Pop songs often have plenty of death in them, because death is very smooth and goes down easy; when I say death in pop, I mean the obvious, dull to some four-to-the-floor rhythms, the regular rhymes, the easy-to-hold-on-to earworms. As an artist you can either cheat death, or you can become death. Many a pop singer is death incarnate, because death always goes to number 1. Don’t mistake those upbeat lyrics and dancey tunes for life. The
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