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LCD Soundsystem – Daft Punk Is Playing In My House (2005)

Perhaps my favorite line about this song came from Andy Kellman of Allmusic, who called it a theme song for the “music nerd frat house of 2005.” If such a movie is ever made, I hope it is made by someone who realizes how fucking preposterous that concept is. Frat houses are a relic of the old boys club world of the 1950s which features every hatemongering stereotype we still hold in American society. Whether or not individual frat boys fit that mold is another story; what’s clear to me is that someone like James Murphy would never have been allowed in a frat house when he was in college, and if he would be, then and now, it would only be because he knew how to DJ. But if men act like robots, if nerds don’t have emotions or a spine, that makes sense, so long as we keep stereotypes from letting people think for themselves no matter how free they may technically be. The Beastie Boys proved that making fun of frat boys can’t be done with bare-bones irony. It took a much keener wit to do that in 2005, especially when people are dancing to it. And yet somehow James Murphy managed, writing a song about subculture scenesterism that he had been mocking for years. Intelligent Dance Music may have never gotten any smarter.

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