Cristian Tello

[BrooklynRed]

Patrick Bateman disagrees with all of you.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvBAEp3Znn4"]American Psycho - 8. "Hip to Be Square" - YouTube[/ame]

Obviously, NSFW

[Red_Polo]

Perhaps he does. But nobody notices. There is no catharsis. Etc.

[Neil Young]

I think he meant it was hip to appropriate aspects of the square aesthetic. He just couldn't get that to scan.

Ah yes, the old canard. It's a well-worn line but convincingly demolished in all its aspects in Terry Eagleton's pioneering study, 'A Load of Huey: The Failure of American Eighties Pop', and his follow-up, 'No News is Good News'.

As Eagleton demonstrates irrefutably, when Lewis wrote that song, it wasn't hip to use the word 'hip' to mean 'fashionable' or 'cool'. Indeed, at the time, even referring to the joint between the acetabulum within the pelvis and the head of the femur was considered distinctly recherché both within polite society and outside it (or, as I call it, "impolite society").

[Rowan]

Ah yes, the old canard. It's a well-worn line but convincingly demolished in all its aspects in Terry Eagleton's pioneering study, 'A Load of Huey: The Failure of American Eighties Pop', and his follow-up, 'No News is Good News'.

As Eagleton demonstrates irrefutably, when Lewis wrote that song, it wasn't hip to use the word 'hip' to mean 'fashionable' or 'cool'. Indeed, at the time, even referring to the joint between the acetabulum within the pelvis and the head of the femur was considered distinctly recherché both within polite society and outside it (or, as I call it, "impolite society").

A fact which only serves to highlight Huey's bravery as a songwriter. Not content with merely issuing mental challenges to the masses on the nature of being hip, being square and being hip to be square he chose an archaic adjective which had itself hadn't been considered hip since a mob of punks chased the last of the hipsters out of town.

The more I think about it the more I'm convinced that Huey's intention wasn't to provide the definitive judgement on whether it's possible to be both hip and square simultaneously (despite the name 'It's Hip to be Square' implying that he and the News knew that you could be hip, be square and do so in tandem) but he looked to inspire us to question everything we'd ever known about being hip and square. It's a gauntlet thrown down to the convention of modern language. He's calling out Shakespeare, Dickens, Roth and the mucky pup who has recently gained worldwide acclaim for her three books of smut. The fact that almost 30 years later a group of people on a Liverpool fans forum can't unravel the mystery he has put before us would indicate that he's been successful.

But Mods... I appreciate that we've gone a bit off topic here. Feel free to move this to the Welcome to LFC Brendan Rogers thread

[brightred]

So, is Tello going to sign???

[Gray]

Negative

[kris90210]

A fact which only serves to highlight Huey's bravery as a songwriter. Not content with merely issuing mental challenges to the masses on the nature of being hip, being square and being hip to be square he chose an archaic adjective which had itself hadn't been considered hip since a mob of punks chased the last of the hipsters out of town.

The more I think about it the more I'm convinced that Huey's intention wasn't to provide the definitive judgement on whether it's possible to be both hip and square simultaneously (despite the name 'It's Hip to be Square' implying that he and the News knew that you could be hip, be square and do so in tandem) but he looked to inspire us to question everything we'd ever known about being hip and square. It's a gauntlet thrown down to the convention of modern language. He's calling out Shakespeare, Dickens, Roth and the mucky pup who has recently gained worldwide acclaim for her three books of smut. The fact that almost 30 years later a group of people on a Liverpool fans forum can't unravel the mystery he has put before us would indicate that he's been successful.

But Mods... I appreciate that we've gone a bit off topic here. Feel free to move this to the Welcome to LFC Brendan Rogers thread

Think it needs to be added to the 'pretentious bollocks' thread

[Fivex]

Mistaken

[souliv]

I think this thread has been hijacked !!

[little dave hedgehog]

agreed. can we get back to talking about huey lewis?

[fah-q]

Don't need money, don't need fame apparently.

[little dave hedgehog]

we should all get together and watch back to the future tonight.

[fah-q]

I watch it every night.

[Buzzo]

88 miles per hour

[Rowan]

Huey 'You guys are just too darn loud' Lewis