Dancing about architecture

That said, Costello's comment contains a truth that resonates with a lot of people, so much so that it is part of the language of musicians outside the pop sphere who have never heard of Costello. It reminds us of how bad (and hubristic) most writing about music is.

Ironically one of the best single piece of music journalism I've read in recent years was by Costello himself, a short piece about Sinatra shortly after his death. Given his inability to make decent records these days maybe he should stick to dancing about architecture.

I suspect that it has to pre-date Costello. I am going to check some sources later on.

do we know this yet

Dunno! But I'd like to add Brian Eno to the long list of (mis)attributions.

Honestly, the first person I heard it attributed to was Martin Mull.

bump?

When I went to the Cold War Modern exhibition at the V&A last year they had a film of Russian propaganda that involved lots of people waltzing inside a brand new towerblock while singing a song about how everyone could own their own kitchen. So that was dancing about architecture. It was awesome.

The answer is definitively Martin Mull. See OT: We Hear from Martin Mull.

Honestly, the first person I heard it attributed to was Martin Mull.

― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 15 February 2009 06:04 (1 year ago)

*Head swells, explodes*

Damn, could have sworn it was Dr Johnson

dancing to architecture & morality

Crazy! And good to definitively know this :)

don't know if it's been mentioned but lots of 60s "postmodern" dance was site-specific, thus often very much about architecture...sorry declan!

Damn, could have sworn it was Dr Johnson

hahaha