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Was Adam Harper hier auf John Maus münzt, ist eine Waffe gegen die gesamte idiotische Beschreibungsdoktrin der Popkritik im Zeichen der “Retromania”:

The metapop of Maus and Pink is constantly likened to the sounds of previous artists by music critics, a technique which doesn’t do justice to their project, and theire work is invariably described as ‘nostalgic’. Notions of nostalgia, pastiche and reference have dominated writing on recent trends in musical aesthetics, frequently in a mood of frustration, and games of association have become particularly popular. Such a way of imagining and approaching new music only prescribes and ossifies listening. Besides, a diagnosis of ‘nostalgia’ in art is often a futurist opinion, only conceivable from the viewpoint of an aesthetic agenda built around an imperative toward the wholly new.

Adam Harper: ‘Heaven is Real’. John Maus and the Truth of Pop (2011)