All This Useless Beauty

Pretty self-explanatory
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notesrecliner
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All This Useless Beauty

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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/
emotional_fascism076
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Re: All This Useless Beauty

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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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notesrecliner
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Re: All This Useless Beauty

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Thanks for the kind words!
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