{"id":1683,"date":"2008-09-12T00:09:33","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T04:09:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-16T20:08:24","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T20:08:24","slug":"your-unexpectedly-high-brow-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/your-unexpectedly-high-brow-take\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Unexpectedly High-Brow Take on What&#8217;s Generally Considered a Low-Brow Song or Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KPDYfyyQ3O4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve all read some critic&#8217;s unexpectedly high-brow take on what&#8217;s generally considered a low-brow song or album, such as a thesis-length review of <strong>Loverboy<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Working for the Weekend&#8221;, which argues that that humble song&#8217;s lyrics are more meaningful and artistically honest than, say, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/09\/04\/is-john-lennon-s-lemgplastic-ono-bandl-e\">John Lennon&#8217;s &#8220;Working Class Hero&#8221;<\/a>. Chances are, you <strong>Deep Thinkers<\/strong> in the Halls of Rock have secretly harbored your own unexpected insights into what&#8217;s typically considered throwaway pop. Isn&#8217;t it high time you come clean and share these thoughts, thoughts which may not play at the water cooler or a cocktail party? <\/p>\n<p><em>I look forward to your unexpected insights.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve all read some critic&#8217;s unexpectedly high-brow take on what&#8217;s generally considered a low-brow song or album, such as a thesis-length review of Loverboy&#8216;s &#8220;Working for the Weekend&#8221;, which argues that that humble song&#8217;s lyrics are more meaningful and artistically honest than, say, John Lennon&#8217;s &#8220;Working Class Hero&#8221;. Chances are, you Deep Thinkers <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/your-unexpectedly-high-brow-take\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}