• WE 10"

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  WE investigate the latent politics of the love song and the construction of its liberal subject. Songs about 'me' and 'you' become songs about 'us', intimacy becomes a form of collective action and the unique universal. On replacing the individual 'I' with the collective ‘WE’, the resulting song titles include “We Wanna Hold Your Hand”, “We Will Always Love You” and “We Will Follow Him”. Despite being the mass product of an anonymous culture industry, the very premise of the pop song is one of extreme individualism, elevating the ‘one’ subject of romantic desire above any other and declaring one moment in time more significant (‘when I first saw you’) than any other. As a result, even though the pop song is often the outcome of the labour of producers, engineers and technicians, it is associated with the strong fictional character of the pop star. WE reinjects collectivity into this framework, exploring the tension between the dystopian quality of the totalitarian mass and the utopian promise of a communal project. Inspired by the dystopian fiction of Yevgeny Zamyatin and the minimal synth covers of pop classics made by obscure DiY groups in the late 1970s and early 1980s, WE follows in the footsteps of bands like The Better Beatles, who sought to improve on the canon of popular music by stripping it bare, even.
  
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