Back in 2006, I thought it laughable that Gordon Brown expressed a liking for the Arctic Monkeys. Having just got around to listening to 2/3rds of an album – which seams to consist mainly of songs about socialising with precious little insight of any depth – I’m left wondering… 

The Arctic Monkeys have obviously got, or at least had, signficiant subcultural capital, which is often associated with being politcally edgy, but AM  appear to just sing about their lives without even bothering to pretend to have anything of any real value to say – which makes them pure children of Postmodernity.

So getting back to Gordon, now that I know that the AM are nothing but self-obsessed,  shallow posterboys for postmodern vacuity, a question mark arises over Gordon Brown’s motive for coming out as a fan – clearly a man of his intelligence must have known that his declaring a liking for such a band would turn young people off them – so perhaps that whole affair was actually an attempt to turn people away from being shallow and apolitcal?

Or maybe I’m reading too much into this?

Of course, I’ve only listened to half an album, so I might be totally misjuding them, but like for like, I’ve scratched the surface, and see nothing underneath, so I won’t be digging any further anytime soon.

Having said all of that, I actually thought this was an interesting song about fake tans and night clubs – although not insightful in a challenging way.