Oh, you. You're so postmodern.
This is you: Hey guys, I wrote this new song for our band. I know what we'll name it. Something with the right amount of edge and mystery. No one will really be ready for this shit. We're going to take over the world. Well, not the whole world. But the really cool part of the world that knows what the baser part of the world will never know. A very small minority of the world. No more than 5,000 Youtube users' worth of the world.
We'll name this shit "Untitled."
But that's the title. How mind-blowingly paradoxical, right?
You should know that there are currently 12 tracks on my iTunes titled "Untitled." And I don't mean things that I forgot to manually tag when ripping CD's from unsuspecting ex-boyfriends in the early 00's. I mean shit that they literally titled "Untitled."
Yeah, I get what you were trying to do there, but like duct-tape wallets, that practice is OOOOOVVVVEEEERRR.
I mean Kasimir Malevich was really on to something when he painted an enormous fucking black square and called it art. Or, maybe you will argue that it was the fact that it was the "absence" of art that made it so damn remarkable. Or, maybe you will argue that it was the sheer interplay of contrast, the dichotomy of the universe, the sex & death of it all...
No. It was a big black square. That is all. And it was a really nice black square, Kasimir. I will not deny you that!
But no one would try to make a second big black square and expect it to have the same effect.
It's just like Marcel Duchamp's Fountain (spoiler: it's a urinal). Nobody was about to make a second pee-fountain and call it art once again. Yet Creed keeps making music...
Alright, bros. Don't get your boxer-briefs in a bunch about it (is that what you're wearing these days?!) Just give it a title! Any title! Anything other than "Untitled" will do. Even if it is only ONE letter off from "Untitled." How about "Untittled?" And then you can be SO cool and stylize the "i" on the back of the album cover to be without the dot! Because a "tittle" is what you call the little dot on top of a lowercase i! Funny, right?
This is you: Hey guys, I wrote this new song for our band. I know what we'll name it. Something with the right amount of edge and mystery. No one will really be ready for this shit. We're going to take over the world. Well, not the whole world. But the really cool part of the world that knows what the baser part of the world will never know. A very small minority of the world. No more than 5,000 Youtube users' worth of the world.
We'll name this shit "Untitled."
But that's the title. How mind-blowingly paradoxical, right?
You should know that there are currently 12 tracks on my iTunes titled "Untitled." And I don't mean things that I forgot to manually tag when ripping CD's from unsuspecting ex-boyfriends in the early 00's. I mean shit that they literally titled "Untitled."
Yeah, I get what you were trying to do there, but like duct-tape wallets, that practice is OOOOOVVVVEEEERRR.
I mean Kasimir Malevich was really on to something when he painted an enormous fucking black square and called it art. Or, maybe you will argue that it was the fact that it was the "absence" of art that made it so damn remarkable. Or, maybe you will argue that it was the sheer interplay of contrast, the dichotomy of the universe, the sex & death of it all...
No. It was a big black square. That is all. And it was a really nice black square, Kasimir. I will not deny you that!
But no one would try to make a second big black square and expect it to have the same effect.
It's just like Marcel Duchamp's Fountain (spoiler: it's a urinal). Nobody was about to make a second pee-fountain and call it art once again. Yet Creed keeps making music...
Alright, bros. Don't get your boxer-briefs in a bunch about it (is that what you're wearing these days?!) Just give it a title! Any title! Anything other than "Untitled" will do. Even if it is only ONE letter off from "Untitled." How about "Untittled?" And then you can be SO cool and stylize the "i" on the back of the album cover to be without the dot! Because a "tittle" is what you call the little dot on top of a lowercase i! Funny, right?
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