Take a deep breath and begin reading when you're ready. The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether from Lack of Ideas or from Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to 'Guard' Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won What's it mean? Well, it's a fairly in-your-face statement about the state of modern music, but it's so utterly bizarre that it demanded inclusion on this list. With The Boy Bands Have Won, Chumbawamba a British alt band that formed in 1980 began experimenting with politically, socially aware folk music. Many of the songs deal with modernity and how the music industry has dramatically changed over the course of their almost thirty-year career, hence the title's lengthy proclamation. At present it's the longest album title ever released on a label. But these things never last long...it's only a matter of time until someone can't resist beating it.
