I don't often go to see popular music performed live. I mostly don't listen to pop music, but that's not why I don't go. I just don't think there is anything to be gained from seeing someone lip sync his way through exact replicas of overproduced hit singles. If I'm going to pay money to see someone spout off about failed relationships or daddy issues or recentalgia, I want to see some interpretation. Stick an oboe in there somewhere. But when
Vampire Weekend (they
are pop music) announced that their North American tour would begin in Edmonton, I bought tickets immediately, in spite of the
venue. Why? I wanted to see if they
could reproduce the jingles from their albums.
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