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" Nick Cave says that interest in modern rock stardom (his and everyone else&amp;#039;s) is waning. Yet the Bad Seed, actor, and author&amp;#039;s new band, Grinderman, represents his best work in years. Noisy, dark, eloquently obscene, the 49-year-old&amp;#039;s soundtrack to extinction has begun with a bang.  ESQ: Grinderman, the album, is about the death of the rock star. What killed him? NC: The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike. It&amp;#039;s something to lift us out of the commonplace and the mundane. And in the information age, they&amp;#039;re becoming less and less godlike. Everyone is able to make music these days. Everyone can take a crack at it. To me, that equality has diluted the power of the rock star. The rock star is dying. And it&amp;#039;s a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.  ESQ: This sounds like a rock star&amp;#039;s record. It&amp;#039;s not subtle. NC: But there&amp;#039;s a lot of complexity. This is a record made by men approaching their 50s -- men basically on the way out. It&amp;#039;s seething with sexual tension, and only a person who&amp;#039;s nearly 50 can really understand that. ESQ: But rock &amp;#039;n&amp;#039; roll has always been about sexual tension. NC:  Rock music has mostly dealt with the idea that the person singing the song is sexually powerful. With our record, it&amp;#039;s the opposite. I&amp;#039;m talking about being able to be in a position where you can have influence over things. All of that decreases the older you get. You slowly become invisible. ESQ: And less virile? The record includes &amp;quot;No Pussy Blues.&amp;quot; NC:  There seems to be an enormous amount of people relating to that song: male and female, young and old. So apparently fewer of us are getting laid than we thought. But in a broader sense, the song is about what we&amp;#039;re being sold: the idea that products can make us happy and satisfied. [Pauses.]Of course, the song is also about not getting any pussy.  ESQ: Should more rock stars your age admit they&amp;#039;re becoming invisible? NC: I wish more guys my age would just disappear. ESQ: You haven&amp;#039;t. NC: There&amp;#039;s only a certain amount of songs you can write about pussy, murder, and God. I still have a few left in me. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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