Read a corporate announcement that her next album will be “informed by 1970s-era psychedelia”. What’s that when it’s at home? Starry Eyed and Laughing mid 70s had a certain jingle jangle, but the 1970s were too busy being glam/pub/reggae/funk/punk to be harking back to 1967-69. It’s like saying 1950s-era disco.
Dua Lipa goes psychedelic? Or possibly not
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Could it be that she’s referring more to the psychedelic soul of Parliament Funkadelic than the psychedelic rock of the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane etc? It would seem a better fit with her previous music.
70s psychedelic. Could be Gong or Hawkwind, I hope. Or Nektar?
Hawkwind are in the news again with the forthcoming Space Ritual box set, so maybe Dua’s going to, um, ‘do a Stacia’?
Where’s Moosey when we need him?
Well, quite…hey, fella, have you seen the Moose?
I ain’t seen the Moose…
…where IS that confounded Moose?
Yeah, I’m annoyed at this as well, in a probably-just-being-pedantic way. Although you can argue that psychedelia continued to have an influence into the 70s (and the examples above are all fairly good examples) I would agree it’s a bit much to say “1970s-era psychedelia” as psychedelia as a musical concept is firmly 60s. I say Ms Lipa needs to clarify what she means, or at least have a strong word with her press team.
If we tolerate this, etc etc…
Yebbut, as Vincent says above: Gong? Both psychedelic and pseventies?
Having said that, I find it hard to get too “annoyed” about this kinda thing these days…
(I’ll get me pointy hat with the propeller…)
I got similarly irked when Morse, or rather Endeavour, had an episode based around a psychedelic band rehearsing in an Oxford manor house. They were dressed in Sgt Pepper suits and the episode was set in 1966. Surely peak psych was 1967?
Mind you, in a recent episode of BBC’s The Pact, a character receives a copy of Kate Bush’s Sensual World on vinyl for her birthday. She unwraps it, puts it on the turntable and plonks the needle down in the middle. This Woman’s Work plays (which is track 5 of 6 on side 2, nowhere near the middle) and the label is for a Fontana release, not EMI. But, apart from that…
Do you take medication for your blood pressure? Or meditate?
Being a pedant is not considered a medical condition, sadly.
I can lay on the floor and breathe and all that, but I find making a cuppa and putting a record on has the same effect.
These things don’t annoy or irk me any more – I’m not sure why. I still register them, but they no longer wind me up like they used to. You can’t completely cure pedantry, but maybe one can mitigate the teeth-grinding, brain-scrubbing, temper-imploding AAAARGHHH! of it all…
…fags, booze and major psychedelics should do the trick…or tea…
My blood boils in a similar way when things are needlessly wrong. We had a TV ad here where two celebrity sporting sisters are playing scrabble. Sister 1 opens the game with ROWING (which is fine). Sister 2, looking all smug, adds OLD to the G making GOLD. Sister 1 looks thoroughly dejected – and Sister 2 says “…AND it’s a triple word score!”
So what’s the problem?
a. It wasn’t a triple word score!
b. It wasn’t even many points! Sister 1 is still in the lead by quite a margin!
c. It’s only the second play of the game! It’s by no means over!
I was less irked than a bit puzzled. There’s a fine tradition of record company publicity bumph that sometimes the artists don’t even know about. “This one is his pastoral album, produced using organic methods” etc…..
They thought of course – we know it’s 60s but let’s say 70s. That’ll irk those uptight old farts, sew the seeds of annoyance with The Afterword and their kind, which spreads to be a minor storm of tutting and eye rolling, gaining free publicity for our artist and maybe some income from a new audience who experience a little thrill from the thought of the return of psychedelia. You’ve been played!
Following the well-observed internet concept that the best way to get comments on a thread is to make a mistake (often spelling or grammatical) in a post.
*Struggles not to comment on ‘sew’* Damn…sorry, Diddley!
Really nice playlist above. Time will tell whether Dua Lipa has gone down the Funkadelic/Mayfield/Psychedelic Funk route or maybe the Gong/Nektar/Hawkwind route. Be interesting if it was the latter.