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The Paranoid Style
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This is the twitter account of Elizabeth Nelson. Bylines: The Ringer, Oxford American, N.Y. Times, Pitchfork and LG&M. Singer-songwriter in the Paranoid Style.
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    Apr 1, 2024
    For the bold and brave: my new journalism/copywriting/Paranoid Style website Career Opportunities is up and running! If people out there know of opportunities for an experienced copywriter with strong journalism and research bonafides, please do reach out! elizabethnelson.org
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    Aug 29, 2022
    Re-watching 'The Silence Of The Lambs', I'm struck that basically every interaction Clarice has with a male colleague is some combination of leering, lecturing and intimidation. Demme's direction implies that by the time she encounters Lecter, he scarcely registers as an anomaly.
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    Nov 28, 2021
    This may be the least germane take on the Beatles' ‘Get Back’ documentary imaginable, but I'm finding the simple process of watching several uninterrupted hours of human interaction without cell phones entirely arresting. It’s incredible. They just stare out into space and smoke.
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    Sep 29, 2023
    The paradox of the 'White Album' is that there's no way to extract its weaker material while maintaining the menacing dream-logic that makes the whole such a powerfully dislocating psychic experience. I wonder if it its the first album to consciously employ bad songs as a tactic.
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    Dec 20, 2022
    Neil Young’s ‘Tonight's The Night’ LP remains the single most sinister and insinuating chronicle of the hippie generation’s inexorable drift towards the various death cults of hard drugs, wall-to-wall consumerism and the politics of personal gratification. Let the bad times roll.
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    May 9, 2024
    Albini could say the dumbest things, but the broad outlines of his cultural philosophy were visionary. We live in a docile age of obedient consumerism and consensus-driven political and corporate tyranny. This isn't mandatory. Anger can be power. Did you know that you can use it?
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    Sep 13, 2024
    Neil Young’s ‘Tonight's The Night’ LP remains the single most sinister and insinuating chronicle of the hippie generation’s inexorable drift towards the various death cults of hard drugs, wall-to-wall consumerism and the politics of personal gratification. Let the bad times roll.
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    Sep 21, 2023
    "Forty years later, the Replacements 'Tim' feels like a five-alarm-blaze, prophesying an era of corporate driven consensus and the outsourcing of America's manufacturing sector." Thrilled to write about an all time fave album for my first New Yorker piece.
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    The Replacements Are Still a Puzzle
    The reissue of “Tim” shows both the prescience and the unrealized promise of the beloved band.
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    Jul 6, 2022
    The paradox of the White Album is that there's no way of losing the lesser material without disrupting the menacing dream-logic that makes the entirety such a powerfully dislocating psychic experience. Maybe the first LP to consciously employ 'bad songs' as a creative strategy.
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    Aug 20, 2021
    The paradox of the 'White Album' is that there is no way to extract its weaker material and still maintain the menacing dream-logic which makes the entire experience so powerfully psychically dislocating. I wonder if it is the first LP to consciously employ bad songs as a tactic.
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    Nov 18, 2023
    Reflecting again on how John Cale’s piano playing on Nick Drake’s “Northern Sky” is one of the single most moving things I’ve ever heard, and also how it's like the thirtieth most important thing to occur over the course of his career in music. There's truly nobody else like him.
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    May 2, 2024
    A fever dream of creeping spiritual corruption, Don Henley's "Boys Of Summer" may be the best song written about the failed revolutions of the 60's, and the nightmare of disillusioned consumerism that follows from its wake. The first spasms of the angry investor class. Buckle up.
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    Jul 3, 2020
    The paradox of the 'White Album' is that there is no way to extract its weaker material and still maintain the menacing dream-logic which makes the entire experience so powerfully psychically dislocating. I wonder if it's the first LP to consciously employ bad songs as a tactic.
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    Sep 23, 2023
    "Class resentment had always figured into the Replacements work. On 'Tim' that rage and resignation boiled over. Coulda' been a contender." ICYMI: at the New Yorker, I wrote about the new reissue and the open wound of Paul Westerberg's working man's blues. newyorker.com/culture/listen…
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