A band’s inauthenticity can itself be its genuine artistic material.
Evidence
The Cure are the personification of the not-quite and the not-yet: not quite execrated but never really respected; not punk veterans but not yet generic Goff. The suspicion that has dogged them is that of fakery; yet inauthenticity –as existential condition — was the Cure’s stock-in-trade. You can hear it all in the grain of Robert Smith’s voice. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1052
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Musical origins themselves harbor ghosts, undoing authenticity claims — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 302; Atonal music creates coherence from within without presupposing any preordained order. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2211; Perceived authenticity of a thing heightens its aesthetic value — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 265 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Perceived authenticity of a thing heightens its aesthetic value
#complicates(0.90) — W. David Marx, Status and Culture, 265 - Roxy Music records assemble selves rather than express a pre-existing subjectivity
#exemplifies(0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 884 - Critics once saw their role as separating authentic art from manufactured kitsch
#qualifies(0.80) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 117 - Trap music traded compositional sophistication for immediacy and perceived authenticity
#contradicts(0.80) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 392 - Atonal music creates coherence from within without presupposing any preordained order.
#complicates(0.70) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2211