The latest from Recliner Notes explores the song "All This Useless Beauty" which sees Elvis Costello taking on Oscar Wilde's art-for-art sake's philosophy and grappling with questions about artistic intent and responsibility:
http://reclinernotes.com/2022/07/24/all ... ss-beauty/
All This Useless Beauty
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Re: All This Useless Beauty
Very nice essay on this track. I always found that whole album very different from his work before or since. Maybe because most of those songs were written for other artists.
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Re: All This Useless Beauty
Thanks for the kind words!