Klosterman on the Metallica/Lou Reed album “Lulu”
Just by existing, Lulu represents at least four things:
- Two historically significant artists merging unrelated genres for no defined reason.
- Adult, self-aware musicians following their own creative vision, devoid of commercial pressure or responsibility.
- An attempt to produce something authentically different from anything we’ve ever heard before, motivated only by a desire to see what would happen.
- A confident, unvarnished attempt at taking arcane high art (Lulu is based on theatrical German expressionism from the early 20th century) and repackaging it for denim-clad teenagers huffing gas in Arizona parking lots.
And you can get a listen to Lulu here and realize that Klosterman is absolutely, 100% correct. As usual.
(Source: grantland.com)
