Reflecting on Robbie Williams, Dutch journalist Jan Kuitenbrouwer has some
interesting backchat comments on the critique of the political economy of
consumption, in a recent issue of the middleclass Hague Post/Time magazine
(12 March 2004 issue, p. 90), of which I have translated this excerpt:
I
There's an old Sufi saying: The Devil is a pretty shoe. ...and yes,
I'd say we are in Hell.
On the other hand, poor teenager. When girls come into their womanhood,
they are all thumbs about expressing their new-found sexual
selves/feelings etc. They tend to exaggerate everything: the sexy walk,
There's got to be a way to find my way to heaven, cuz I did my time in hell,
to paraphrase Keith Richards. Actually, I quite like short skirts on women,
but then, I'm a man. I haven't got time just now to go into a whole
dialectical analysis of Dutch Treat, but thanx for the comment.
J.
