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Originally Posted by swim
And U2 and Sting aren't doing theirs?
In my opinion being pretentious is making music that you yourself don't enjoy and can't get behind. If you put out 20 minutes of tape hiss but you love the **** out of it it's not pretentious, if you write pop songs because that's what you like than fine. I don't think pretentiousness can be accurately measured from the listeners point of view.
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That is true.
Like bands that sing for profit to a large extent.
But making gestures about lofty issues and doing charity gigs then doing exactly what they say we shouldn't is pretentious to me.
Like all these shows to save the planet when they put themselves up like that and then a music journo finds they fly loads and do stuff they don't need like fly their food in from abroad like U2 Madonna and Sting.
And they write songs about these issues too!