{"id":22,"date":"2010-01-17T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T17:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2010-01-17T17:14:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T17:14:00","slug":"on-gospel-abba-and-the-death-of-the-record-an-audience-with-brian-eno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"On gospel, Abba and the death of the record: an audience with Brian Eno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/brian-eno-ambient-studio-001-705284.jpg\"><img style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 240px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/brian-eno-ambient-studio-001-705282.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A really curious interview with Brian Eno by one of my favorite writers, Paul Morley today at the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>The interview is really a short paragraph on a number of subjects, my favorite being the answer on Abba (or Group Abba &#8211; if you will). <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">On Abba<\/span><br \/>&#8220;In the 70s, no one would admit that they liked Abba. Now it&#8217;s fine. It&#8217;s so kitsch. Kitsch is an excuse to defend the fact that they feel a common emotion. If it is kitsch. you put a sort of frame around something \u2013 to suggest you are being ironic. Actually, you aren&#8217;t. You are really enjoying it. I like Abba. I did then and I didn&#8217;t admit it. The snobbery of the time wouldn&#8217;t allow it. I did admit it when I heard&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Follow this link for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2010\/jan\/17\/brian-eno-interview-paul-morley\">the whole story<\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-style:italic;\"><br \/>Brian Eno in his studio. Photograph: Harry Borden (from the Guardian)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A really curious interview with Brian Eno by one of my favorite writers, Paul Morley today at the Guardian. The interview is really a short paragraph on a number of subjects, my favorite being the answer on Abba (or Group Abba &#8211; if you will). On Abba&#8220;In the 70s, no one would admit that they liked Abba. Now it&#8217;s fine. It&#8217;s so kitsch. Kitsch is an excuse to defend the fact that they feel a common emotion. If it is kitsch. you put a sort of frame around something \u2013 to suggest you are being ironic. Actually, you aren&#8217;t. You&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=22\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On gospel, Abba and the death of the record: an audience with Brian Eno<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[140],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}