Postmodernism and Music

• The postmodern sensibility that anything can be considered cool in an ironic “I know it’s bad, but it’s so bad it’s good” way.
An example of this is Lily Allen’s first album “alright, still” a lot of the song she wrote were ironic in a way we knew what she was singing about was wrong, but they were such happy tunes we still sang along. For example in her song LDN these lyrics are this “there was a little old lady who was walking down the road, she was struggling with bags from Tesco, there were people in the city having lunch in the park I believe that it’s called al-fresco, when a kids came along to offer a hand, but before she had time to except it, hits her over the head, doesn’t care if he’s dead cause he’s got all her jewellery and wallet” Here is the video from LDN


To put the postmodernism into context the next lyric in the song is "you might laugh you might cry” which proves to point above that even though it’s really bad, its bad enough for some audiences to laugh at.