Title: Serious question
Product review: OK, serious question here folks: is the critical and fan adulation for this band (and Jack White in particular) some kind of perverse in-joke by hipsters, kind of like the praise the French heap on Jerry Lewis? It certainly can't be from serious admiration of the musicianship, songwriting, or singing, all of which are on the same level as a couple of teens who have just started to learn to play their instruments fooling around in their parents' garage, or perhaps The Shaggs. I guess this is one of those phenomena like Captain Beefheart's "Trout Mask Replica", where people pretend to "get" it so they can think of themselves as cooler-than-thou, while all the time ignoring that the Emperor is buck naked.
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